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Multi-age classrooms or composite classes are classrooms with students from more than one grade level. They are created when either there are too many students for one class - but not enough to form two classes of the same grade level, or as an educational choice by the school. Composite classes are more common in smaller schools; an extreme form is the one-room school. Studies of the performance of students in composite classes shows their academic performance is not substantially different from those in single-grade classrooms; instead, outcomes tend to be a function of the teacher's performance.〔 〕 ==Prevalence== For a given number of students, composite classes allow greater administrative flexibility in allocating students to classes. This allows gender balancing, matching of student needs to teaching expertise, and balancing class sizes. By allocating children to classes according to specific learning needs, it is possible to arrange classes with narrower ranges of abilities. Schools composed exclusively of composite classes are increasingly common in Australian primary school education; they are not uncommon in New Zealand.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Composite Classes )〕 Composite classes often meet resistance, with parents often believing that their child is disadvantaged by being in one. This perception is often regardless of whether their child would be in the younger or older cohort. Advocates of multi-age classrooms point to the lack of age stratification in workplaces, families or other social environments as a reason to create a similar environment in the classroom. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Multi-age classroom」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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