Non-Graded Instruction: Research Organization and Design. Administration and Daily Teaching Experiences in Small Rural Lower Secondary Schools. Experiences from the PANG-Project. Report No. 56.

The Process Analysis of Non-Grading (PANG) project began as a project for evaluating experiments with non-graded education in Stollet in the province of Varmland in western Sweden. Since then the project-work and design has been further developed and now also includes studying the school in its social environment. The project's main objective is to analyze the total situation and development of the pupils in a nongraded school system and in the alternative which would be actual if the small school is closed. This alternative would be a graded system in a school far away from home. In this situation the pupils get even farther daily-travelling than they are used to, or they have to live at a boarding house during the week. Presenting an orientation of the work on different levels of the project, this report discusses: (1) the PANG-project and its place in the Swedish School Research Program; (2) the organization of non-graded education in Stollet, a small lower secondary school in Varmland; (3) the organization of non-graded education in Hallen, a small lower secondary school in Jamtland; (4) non-graded teaching in general subjects in Hallen; (5) non-graded teaching in English in Solberg; and (6) non-graded instruction in small rural lower secondary schools. A listing of 56 reports from the PANG-project is also included. (NQ)