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Direct linkZheng, R. Z.; Yang, W.; Garcia, D.; McCadden, E. P. – Journal of Computer Assisted Learning, 2008
The present study investigates the effects of multimedia and schema induced analogical reasoning on science learning. It involves 89 fourth grade elementary students in the north-east of the United States. Participants are randomly assigned into four conditions: (a) multimedia with analogy; (b) multimedia without analogy; (c) analogy without…
Descriptors: Cognitive Style, Logical Thinking, Grade 4, Teaching Methods
Download full textBailey, Alison, L.; Butler, Frances A.; LaFramenta, Charmien; Ong, Christine – US Department of Education, 2004
This report details an exploratory study that employs qualitative methods to characterize the academic language used by teachers and students in 4th and 5th grade mainstream science classrooms. Teacher oral language, and to some degree student talk, was observed during content instruction. This type of data allows for a broad descriptive…
Descriptors: Elementary Education, Science Instruction, Academic Discourse, Discourse Analysis
Firestone, William A.; Monfils, Lora; Schorr, Roberta Y. – Assessment in Education Principles Policy and Practice, 2004
As testing becomes more prevalent as a policy tool in the Anglo-Saxon world, debates continue as to whether it supports central reforms of instruction or leads to a kind of 'teaching to the test' that invalidates results and undermines more challenging instruction. This paper reports on a three-year study of mathematics testing of nine-year-olds…
Descriptors: Educational Policy, Academic Standards, Achievement Tests, Student Evaluation
Evans, Robert H. – 1989
The goals of this research were to: (1) develop instruments useful in profiling the characteristics of teaching manuals used with grade 4 science textbooks and the effects of those manuals on teacher and pupil activities; (2) look at both high and low inference perspectives in making these profiles; (3) develop two instruments, one for elementary…
Descriptors: Elementary School Science, Elementary School Students, Grade 4, Instructional Materials
Lee, Okhee; Hart, Juliet E.; Cuevas, Peggy; Enders, Craig – Journal of Research in Science Teaching, 2004
As part of a larger project aimed at promoting science and literacy for culturally and linguistically diverse elementary students, this study has two objectives: (a) to describe teachers' initial beliefs and practices about inquiry-based science and (b) to examine the impact of the professional development intervention (primarily through…
Descriptors: Science Instruction, Urban Schools, Teacher Workshops, Faculty Development
Jaramillo, James A. – 1993
The Education Resources Center (ERC) is a community-based organization that serves students from various elementary schools united by the Phoenix Coalition for Youth and Families (PCYF). The PCYF Project was authorized to organize agencies and schools in the lower socio-economic areas of inner-city Phoenix into one collaborative arrangement. This…
Descriptors: Behavior, Elementary Education, Elementary School Students, Grade 1
