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Miller, Samuel; Stallings, Sarah; Massey, Dixie; Metzger, Salem R. – Phi Delta Kappan, 2023
While endorsed as critical for promoting learning, students' interest in a topic has had minimal, if any, influence on curriculum development. Teachers thus are challenged to promote students' interest within an established curriculum. After students demonstrated misunderstandings after reading an article about bacteria, Sarah Stallings and Samuel…
Descriptors: Student Interests, Student Participation, Student Centered Learning, Grade 4
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Matthews, Percival; Rittle-Johnson, Bethany – Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 2009
Explaining new ideas to oneself can promote learning and transfer, but questions remain about how to maximize the pedagogical value of self-explanations. This study investigated how type of instruction affected self-explanation quality and subsequent learning outcomes for second- through fifth-grade children learning to solve mathematical…
Descriptors: Grade 5, Mathematics Instruction, Teaching Methods, Comparative Analysis