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Hirschstein, Miriam K.; Edstrom, Leihua Van Schoiack; Frey, Karin S.; Snell, Jennie L.; MacKenzie, Elizabeth P. – School Psychology Review, 2007
This study examined relationships between teacher implementation of a comprehensive bullying prevention program and student outcomes. Implementation in third- through sixth-grade classrooms (N = 36) was measured by observation and teacher report. Student outcomes were measured by student surveys and teacher ratings of peer social skills (N = 549)…
Descriptors: Bullying, Prevention, Student Surveys, Classrooms
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Yin, Li; Anderson, Richard C.; Zhu, Jin – Journal of Educational Psychology, 2007
Developmental stages in reading English words were examined among 118 Chinese children in Grades 2, 4, and 6 from a working-class elementary school in Tianjin, China. Proficiency in Chinese and English, ability to make orthographic analogies in both languages, and strategies in reading English words were assessed. Results suggest that Chinese…
Descriptors: Vowels, Beginning Reading, Foreign Countries, Grade 2
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Rodkin, Philip C.; Farmer, Thomas W.; Pearl, Ruth; Van Acker, Richard – Social Development, 2006
This study examined who among the 526 fourth to sixth graders are nominated as among the coolest kids in their class. There were two questions: (1) Are popular-aggressive (tough) children nominated as cool by a broad spectrum of their peers, or only by a select few? (2) Does variability in children's cool nominations more closely follow their…
Descriptors: Individual Characteristics, Social Status, Aggression, Peer Acceptance
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Deane, Paul; Sheehan, Kathleen M.; Sabatini, John; Futagi, Yoko; Kostin, Irene – Scientific Studies of Reading, 2006
One source of potential difficulty for struggling readers is the variability of texts across grade levels. This article explores the use of automatic natural language processing techniques to identify dimensions of variation within a corpus of school-appropriate texts. Specifically, we asked: Are there identifiable dimensions of lexical and…
Descriptors: Text Structure, Language Processing, Grade 6, Natural Language Processing
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Bruce, Alanna E.; Cole, David A.; Dallaire, Danielle H.; Jacquez, Farrah M.; Pineda, Ashley Q.; LaGrange, Beth – Journal of Abnormal Child Psychology, 2006
In a sample of 299 children (grades 2, 4, and 6), we examined parenting and negative life events as predictors of depressive cognitions, specifically low self-perceived competence, depressive cognitive schemas, and depressogenic attributional style. We also examined developmental trends in these relations. Children completed measures of parenting,…
Descriptors: Child Rearing, Experience, Children, Depression (Psychology)
Center on Education Policy, 2009
This general achievement trends profile includes information that the Center on Education Policy (CEP) and the Human Resources Research Organization (HumRRO) obtained from states from fall 2008 through April 2009. Included herein are: (1) Bullet points summarizing key findings about achievement trends in that state at three performance…
Descriptors: Grades (Scholastic), Federal Legislation, Testing Programs, Academic Achievement
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Moyer-Packenham, Patricia S.; Salkind, Gwenanne; Bolyard, Johnna J. – Contemporary Issues in Technology and Teacher Education (CITE Journal), 2008
This study examined teachers' uses of virtual manipulatives across grades K-8 after participating in a professional development institute in which manipulatives and technology were the major resources used throughout all of the activities. Researchers analyzed 95 lesson summaries in which classroom teachers described their uses of virtual…
Descriptors: Mathematics Instruction, Teaching Methods, Manipulative Materials, Technology Uses in Education
Arnold, Sarah Louise; Kittredge, George Lyman – Ginn and Company, 1910
This textbook is designed to guide children to an intelligent appreciation and enjoyment of good English, to help them speak and write correctly, and to introduce them to the study of grammar. The book is divided into three Parts, intended for use in the Fourth, Fifth, and Sixth Years of school respectively. This edition has been carefully revised…
Descriptors: Grade 4, Grade 5, Grade 6, English Instruction
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Bulut, Sefa; Bulut, Solmaz; Tayli, Asli – School Psychology International, 2005
Since Turkey is a centrally prime earthquake zone, Turkey's children are at risk for developing Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) caused by earthquake exposures and threats of anticipated earthquakes. Given the gaps in the literature and the risk to children living in Turkey, the present study was undertaken to investigate the severity and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Severity (of Disability), Grade 5, Grade 6
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Corbitt, Cynthia; Carpenter, Molly – Science and Children, 2006
For many children, especially those with reading difficulties, a motor-kinesthetic learning activity may be an effective tool to teach complex concepts. With this in mind, the authors developed and tested a game designed to teach fourth- to sixth-grade children some basic principles of nervous system function by allowing the children themselves to…
Descriptors: Reading Difficulties, Injuries, Anatomy, Grade 4
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Xin, Ziqiang; Lin, Chongde; Zhang, Li; Yan, Rong – Educational Psychology in Practice, 2007
Compared with standard arithmetic word problems demanding only the direct use of number operations and computations, realistic problems are harder to solve because children need to incorporate "real-world" knowledge into their solutions. Using the realistic word problem testing materials developed by Verschaffel, De Corte, and Lasure…
Descriptors: Elementary School Students, Arithmetic, Word Problems (Mathematics), Foreign Countries
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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
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Camahalan, Faye Marsha G. – Journal of Instructional Psychology, 2006
This research was based on the conceptual framework that students' low mathematics achievement in school is related to their poor study habits. Thus, the intervention titled "Mathematics Self-Regulated Learning Program" aimed to help selected children from Southeast Asia (the Philippines) improve their Mathematics achievement,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Learning Theories, Study Habits, Mathematics Achievement
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Kamii, Constance; Kysh, Judith – Journal of Mathematical Behavior, 2006
In individual interviews, 220 students in grades 4, 6, 8, and 9 were given one task, and 72 eighth graders were given three tasks to answer two questions: (a) Is a square the unit of measurement for an area for students in grades 4-8? and (b) Does a square have a space-covering characteristic for students in grade 8? The answers to both questions…
Descriptors: Geometric Concepts, Grade 8, Grade 4, Piagetian Theory
McAllister, Deborah A., Ed.; Cutcher, Cortney L., Ed. – Online Submission, 2011
As a part of the teacher licensure program at the graduate level at The University of Tennessee at Chattanooga (UTC), the M.Ed. Licensure candidate is required to complete an action research project during a 3-semester-hour course that coincides with the 9-semester-hour student teaching experience. This course, Education 5900 Culminating…
Descriptors: Action Research, Research Projects, Student Attitudes, Economics Education
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