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Fisman, Lianne – Journal of Environmental Education, 2005
In this article, the author examines the effects of an urban environmental education program on children's awareness of their local biophysical environment. She examined changes in environmental awareness among 3rd- and 5th-grade participants in the Open Spaces as Learning Places program in New Haven, Connecticut. Results showed a significant…
Descriptors: Environmental Education, Urban Education, Physical Environment, Perception
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Thomson, Nicole Renick – Journal of Moral Education, 2007
The present study examined the fairness judgements and reasoning offered by children and adolescents in the context of the division of household labour among siblings. The data were examined for grade level differences in the endorsement of three distributive justice principles (equality, equity and need). Male and female third grade, sixth grade…
Descriptors: Grade 10, Grade 3, Grade 6, Adolescents
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Urban-Rich, Juanita – Science and Children, 2006
In this article, the author developed an activity called "The Polar Insulation Investigation." This activity builds on students' natural interest in "things polar" and introduces them to animal adaptations in a unique way. The aim of the exploration is to determine the role of animal coverings (e.g., blubber, fur, and feathers) and to see which is…
Descriptors: Investigations, Animals, Science Activities, Ecology
Burke, Mary A.; Sass, Tim R. – Federal Reserve Bank of Boston, 2008
In this paper we analyze the impact of classroom peers on individual student performance with a unique longitudinal data set covering all Florida public school students in grades 3-10 over a five-year period. Unlike many previous data sets used to study peer effects in education, our data set allow us to identify each member of a given student's…
Descriptors: Teacher Effectiveness, Student Evaluation, Academic Achievement, Peer Groups
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Elias, Maurice J.; Haynes, Norris M. – School Psychology Quarterly, 2008
Despite living in disadvantaged urban communities experiencing social and economic hardships, many children emerge with positive outcomes. Social-emotional competence and social support were hypothesized to have strong influences on academic trajectories during the critical period of academic skill acquisition. Participants were 282 third-grade…
Descriptors: Elementary School Students, Academic Achievement, Classroom Environment, Interpersonal Competence
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Bub, Kristen L. – Applied Developmental Science, 2009
Social and behavioral problems can interfere with a child's acquisition of age-appropriate skills, which may lead to antisocial behavior in adolescence and adulthood. Thus, determining how best to support positive skills during early childhood is critical. Using data from the first three phases of the NICHD Study of Early Child Care and Youth…
Descriptors: Neighborhoods, Antisocial Behavior, Effect Size, Grade 3
Carter, Paula – Teaching Pre K-8, 2005
In this article, the author, a team teacher in a multi-age elementary school classroom, relates the story of Nya, a new student in her third-grade class. Nya was drug-affected, and her family had moved around a lot, so she tended not to stay in one school for very long. As a result, her reading level was that of a beginning first grader, and she…
Descriptors: Reading Achievement, Reading Difficulties, Antisocial Behavior, Elementary School Students
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Keddie, Amanda – British Journal of Sociology of Education, 2004
This paper describes the research approach of a case study ethnography. The study sought to explore the peer group understandings of five male friends aged between six and eight years. In exploring the social dynamics of peer culture, and in particular how these dynamics interacted to define, regulate and maintain particular understandings of…
Descriptors: Peer Groups, Young Children, Males, Masculinity
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Carroll, Annemaree; Houghton, Stephen; Taylor, Myra; Hemingway, Francene; List-Kerz, Michelle; Cordin, Robin; Douglas, Graham – International Journal of Disability, Development & Education, 2006
The present research investigated the emotional functioning of children with and without Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD), in order to examine the relationships between emotional intensity and classroom-based responses to physically and interpersonally provoking situations. Seventy children (35 with ADHD and 35 without ADHD) in…
Descriptors: Hyperactivity, Attention Deficit Disorders, Classroom Environment, Interpersonal Relationship
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Cortes, Rebecca C.; Fleming, Charles B.; Catalano, Richard F.; Brown, Eric C. – Journal of Youth and Adolescence, 2006
This study reports on relationships among gender, maternal depressed mood, and children's trajectories of depressive phenomena across middle childhood and early adolescence. It tested the hypothesis that, compared to boys, girls become increasingly vulnerable to maternal depression as they enter adolescence. The study sample consisted of 834…
Descriptors: Mothers, Depression (Psychology), Hypothesis Testing, Children
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Dodge, Kenneth A.; Greenberg, Mark T.; Malone, Patrick S. – Child Development, 2008
A dynamic cascade model of development of serious adolescent violence was proposed and tested through prospective inquiry with 754 children (50% male; 43% African American) from 27 schools at 4 geographic sites followed annually from kindergarten through Grade 11 (ages 5-18). Self, parent, teacher, peer, observer, and administrative reports…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Academic Failure, Adolescents, Least Squares Statistics
Kenney, Mary Kate – Online Submission, 2007
There is an increasing interest in the practice of teachers staying with a group of students for more than one year. This is referred to as looping in educational practice. The problem of constant uncertainty or change of a new teacher year to year, creates less academic time and student anxiety. The purpose of this study is to examine the effects…
Descriptors: Educational Methods, Primary Education, Educational Practices, Classroom Techniques
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Stuart, Shannon K.; Connor, Mary; Cady, Karin; Zweifel, Alicia – International Journal of Whole Schooling, 2007
This article describes a multiage classroom led by three co-teachers who facilitate the education of 42 students ages six through nine years. The classroom is located in a public school district that practices inclusion and subscribes to the principles of whole schooling. A literature review defines the concepts of co-teaching, multiage education,…
Descriptors: Multigraded Classes, Mixed Age Grouping, Teaching Methods, Inclusive Schools
Bush-Richards, Angela; Schmitt, Lisa – Online Submission, 2008
This report describes district-level results from the 2007-2008 AISD Student Climate Survey.
Descriptors: School Districts, Educational Environment, Environmental Influences, Elementary Secondary Education
Endreny, Anna Henderson – Journal of Elementary Science Education, 2006
In this paper, I describe the action research I conducted in my third-grade science classrooms over the course of two years. In order to gain an understanding of my third-grade students' ideas about animal adaptations and how the teaching of a unit on crayfish influenced these ideas, I used clinical interviews, observations, and written…
Descriptors: Animals, Action Research, Science Curriculum, Concept Formation
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