Achievement and Social Adjustment of Pupils in Combination Classes Enrolling Pupils of more than One Grade Level

Abstract

ELEMENTARY SCHOOL principals are frequently faced with the decision as to whether to set up a combination class (including child ren from more than one grade level) or to permit wide variation in class size, with some classes being undesirably large. When a princi pal decides in favor of setting up a combination class, he faces the ad ditional problem of counseling with parents who protest the assignment of their children to the new class situation. Teachers of combination classes are frequently faced with public relations problems of the same type. A parent expresses undue con cern about the achievement of his child, or, in some instances, asks for a transfer to a regular class. Parents pose such questions as: