ArticleNPJ science of learning2017
Montessori education: a review of the evidence base.
Article in NPJ science of learning, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 18 papers.
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18 citing papers in PubMed.
- Early Montessori education shows delayed benefits for mathematical problem-solving in a 5-year longitudinal randomized controlled trial.Scientific reports · 2025Trial
- Effects of Chinese Martial Arts on Motor Skills in Children between 5 and 6 Years of Age: A Randomized Controlled Trial.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2022Trial
- Effects of Montessori Education on the Academic, Cognitive, and Social Development of Disadvantaged Preschoolers: A Randomized Controlled Study in the French Public-School System.Child development · 2021Trial
- When little brain goes to school: Impact of pedagogy on cerebellar peduncles' development.Developmental cognitive neuroscience · 2026Article
- Mapping the Montessori mathematics curriculum to Dehaene's four pillars of learning.NPJ science of learning · 2026Review
- Schooling Trajectories and the Development of Brain Dynamics: A Comparative Study of Montessori and Traditional Education.Advanced science (Weinheim, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany) · 2026Article
- Montessori Principles in Medical Education: Training Innovative and Compassionate Physicians.Medical science educator · 2026Article
- The System 3 Method: integrating intuition, reason and creative metacognition for deep learning.Frontiers in psychology · 2026Review
- Characterization of language abilities and semantic networks in very preterm children at school-age.PloS one · 2025Article
- Master Splinter and the challenge of personalization in education.Frontiers in psychology · 2025Article
- Active inference goes to school: the importance of active learning in the age of large language models.Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences · 2024Article
- Differences in spatiotemporal brain network dynamics of Montessori and traditionally schooled students.NPJ science of learning · 2024Article
- Montessori education's impact on academic and nonacademic outcomes: A systematic review.Campbell systematic reviews · 2023Review
- The Behavioral Effects of Montessori Pedagogy on Children's Psychological Development and School Learning.Children (Basel, Switzerland) · 2022Review
- Preschoolers' Attitudes, School Motivation, and Executive Functions in the Context of Various Types of Kindergarten.Frontiers in psychology · 2022Article
- Education shapes the structure of semantic memory and impacts creative thinking.NPJ science of learning · 2021Article
- An fMRI study of error monitoring in Montessori and traditionally-schooled children.NPJ science of learning · 2020Article
- Beyond executive functions, creativity skills benefit academic outcomes: Insights from Montessori education.PloS one · 2019Article
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Abstract
The Montessori educational method has existed for over 100 years, but evaluations of its effectiveness are scarce. This review paper has three aims, namely to (1) identify some key elements of the method, (2) review existing evaluations of Montessori education, and (3) review studies that do not explicitly evaluate Montessori education but which evaluate the key elements identified in (1). The goal of the paper is therefore to provide a review of the evidence base for Montessori education, with the dual aspirations of stimulating future research and helping teachers to better understand whether and why Montessori education might be effective.
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