Not exact matches
In the upper grades, teachers
tend to do more whole
group instruction than
small group instruction and find it difficult to give that critical feedback.
They found that
small group teaching was more effective than whole class
instruction — that is, if one compares 30 minutes of
small group teaching versus 30 minutes of whole class teaching, the kids in the
small group tend to make larger learning gains.
Specific aspects of the treatments that positively correlated with gains included teacher - directed
instruction and
small -
group instruction, but provision of additional services
tended to be associated with
smaller gains.