There are a couple of
experimental classroom interventions that I think seem particularly promising, including Tools of the Mind, which uses extended make - believe play and other teaching strategies to develop self - regulation in 4 - and 5 - year - olds, and OneGoal, the Chicago - based high school program that teaches juniors and seniors a particular set of non-cognitive skills designed to help them persist in college.
Not exact matches
In addition, reviewers concerned with the possibility of contamination of control students by
experimental students in our earlier randomized within - building study design preferred a nonrandomized design in which whole schools, rather than
classrooms, were assigned to
intervention or nonintervention conditions.
Observations lasted for 50 minutes on 2 different days in the fall and spring each year using the interactive teaching map to document the use of the targeted teaching strategies in all conditions.37 Greater use of the
experimental instructional and management methods was observed in
intervention classrooms, as discussed elsewhere.38 Teachers» use of the
experimental instructional and management methods has been found to predict short - term variation across
classrooms in students» levels of social development constructs related to school bonding.38
In the present analyses, the full
intervention group consists of all students who were randomly assigned to
intervention classrooms in grades 1 through 4 in 8 elementary schools participating in the earlier
experimental study, and who remained in schools assigned to the
intervention condition in grades 5 or 6 in the present study.