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Alexandra Affranti; Valentina Tobia; Stephanie Bellocchi; Paola Bonifacci – International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism, 2024
Many studies have explored how Language-Minority Bilingual Children (LMBC) read and comprehend, while the way they learn to spell and write has received less attention. This study aimed to assess a comprehensive profile of spelling and writing skills in LMBC, comparing performances of 4th and 5th grade bilingual (n = 74) and monolingual (n = 131)…
Descriptors: Bilingualism, Spelling, Writing Ability, Grade 4
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Lucia Donata Nepi; Simona Pecorini; Marta Pellegrini; Andrea Peru – International Journal of Inclusive Education, 2024
The present research aims to extend findings from a recent study in which a large sample of primary and secondary school pupils was asked to choose a hypothetical classmate they would invite to share five different activities. Results demonstrated that a visible disability represents a barrier for social participation and involvement. In the…
Descriptors: Elementary School Students, Social Attitudes, Student Attitudes, Students with Disabilities
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Cardis, Anna; Fastame, Maria Chiara – Psychology in the Schools, 2023
Phonemic awareness refers to the ability to reflect on and process the sounds of spoken language and to conduct mental operations on the units that represent them, that is, phonemes. This study intended to examine the descriptive and psychometric properties of the phonemic awareness of schoolers test assessment (PASTA), a new tool that assesses…
Descriptors: Phonemic Awareness, Word Recognition, Foreign Countries, Psychometrics
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Mahmut Sami Yigiter – Journal of Theoretical Educational Science, 2024
One of the main objectives of international large-scale assessments is to make comparisons between different countries, education policies, education systems, or subgroups. One of the main criteria for making comparisons between different groups is to ensure measurement invariance. The purpose of this study was to test the measurement invariance…
Descriptors: Mathematics, Mathematics Skills, Grade 4, Grade 8
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Gratani, Francesca; Giannandrea, Lorella; Rossi, Pier Giuseppe – Research on Education and Media, 2023
In today's world, technology and digital media are no longer separate, "other" than "natural" human and social life. Technology has become pervasive, transparent, reaching a "stable" form, no longer revolutionary. A new concept, "the post-digital," is emerging and gradually taking hold in a wide range of…
Descriptors: STEM Education, 21st Century Skills, Student Attitudes, Self Efficacy
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Cadamuro, Alessia; Di Bernardo, Gian Antonio; Trifiletti, Elena; Bisagno, Elisa; Shamloo, Soraya Elizabeth; Faccini, Martina; Vezzali, Loris – European Journal of Developmental Psychology, 2022
We aimed to validate a long and a short version of the popular SDO6 scale for children, by testing their reliability and factorial structure, as well as divergent and criterion validity. Italian fourth- and fifth-graders (N = 271; 49.45% female) were administered the Child SDO6 scale, composed of 16 items, along with a series of personality and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Grade 5, Elementary School Students, Peer Influence
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Sgrò, Francesco; Coppola, Roberto; Schembri, Rosaria; Lipoma, Mario – European Physical Education Review, 2021
The purpose of this study was to examine the effects of a tactical games model instructional plan on game-play volleyball performances of elementary school students, taking into account their skill level. In total, 39 fourth-grade students (average age: 8.9 years) participated in a 13-week unit, in which each lesson exaggerated the use of…
Descriptors: Team Sports, Elementary School Students, Teaching Methods, Psychomotor Skills
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Giliberti, Marco – Education Sciences, 2021
The paper contains progress reports supported by data about two short activities aimed at introducing physics themes in primary school. The first is a formal storytelling intervention named "Mommy Comet" carried out in first- and fifth-grade classes and concerning motion in the absence of forces in the Solar System broad context. The…
Descriptors: Theater Arts, Physics, Elementary School Students, Science Instruction
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Chen, Fu; Sakyi, Alfred; Cui, Ying – Journal of Educational Computing Research, 2022
Few of previous reading studies "comprehensively" examined the contributing factors of students' digital reading literacy. To fill this gap, based upon the ecological perspective, this study aims to investigate which factors from the student, home, and school context are more important in discriminating high-performing digital readers…
Descriptors: Reading Skills, Literacy, Electronic Publishing, Printed Materials
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Valentina Carbonara; Andrea Scibetta; Jacopo Torregrossa – International Journal of Multilingualism, 2024
The present study investigates whether exposure to multilingual pedagogies enhances emergent bilingual children's narrative abilities. These abilities are among the most reliable indicators of children's literacy skills. We compare two groups of emergent bilingual children with migrant background attending the fourth and fifth grade of a public…
Descriptors: Multilingualism, Teaching Methods, Educational Benefits, Native Language
Hooper, Martin – International Association for the Evaluation of Educational Achievement, 2020
Trend results from the Progress in International Reading Literacy Study (PIRLS) show a decline from 2001 through 2016 in most countries in fourth graders' and their parents' reading attitudes, as measured by students like reading and parents like reading scale scores. Average students like reading scale scores, as reported by the students…
Descriptors: Achievement Tests, Foreign Countries, Grade 4, Reading Achievement
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Ruini, Chiara; Vescovelli, Francesca; Facchini, Maria; Maset, Rossano – European Journal of Psychology and Educational Research, 2023
Various investigations have applied meditation protocols in the school context, with beneficial effects. Transcendental meditation, however, received little attention in primary school settings and few controlled studies are available. The present study is aimed: 1) to investigate the implementation of a school protocol (Quiet Time-QT) based on…
Descriptors: Elementary School Students, Well Being, Health Promotion, Metacognition
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Fortuna, Sandra; Nijs, Luc – Music Education Research, 2020
Can a bodily engagement with music affect the process of musical meaning formation and, as such, affect children's graphic representation of music? To address this question a comparative study was conducted in which primary school children (n = 52; age = 9-10) without any formal music education participated in a verbal-based (describe the music…
Descriptors: Human Body, Music Activities, Motion, Elementary School Students
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Guarini, Annalisa; Tobia, Valentina; Bonifacci, Paola; Faldella, Giacomo; Sansavini, Alessandra – Journal of Learning Disabilities, 2021
Difficulties in mathematics have been described in very preterm children, but their origins are not well understood and may differ from other populations with specific learning disability. Very preterm children, children with learning disability, and typically developing children were compared in mathematics skills, using standardized tools,…
Descriptors: Premature Infants, Elementary School Students, Students with Disabilities, Learning Disabilities
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Fastame, Maria Chiara – School Psychology International, 2021
The relationships between visuo-spatial abilities and geometry performances in school-aged children were examined. A battery of tests assessing non-verbal reasoning, visuo-spatial mental imagery, and academic achievement in geometry (i.e., geometric knowledge and geometric problem-solving competencies) was presented to 162 8-9.5-year-old pupils…
Descriptors: Spatial Ability, Geometry, Correlation, Mathematics Achievement
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