Setting and Participants
The setting was a school in a rural south Florida county. The participants were
sixth-grade students and two social studies teachers at two rural K-8 schools in the
district.
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Schools
The participating sixth-grade students attended two K - 8 schools. School A had
two experimental and one control class. School B had two each of experimental and
control classes. School A had three social studies instructional periods, each class was
scheduled in 45 minutes blocks and met daily. School B had four instructional periods for
social studies instruction, each class is scheduled in 90-minute blocks and meet every
other day, therefore the instructional time was similar. The classes had relatively equal
numbers of high-risk and low-risk students and class sizes were between 19 and 25
students. One teacher at each school taught both the experimental and control classes.
Teachers