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Farmer, Thomas W.; Estell, David B.; Hall, Cristin M.; Pearl, Ruth; Van Acker, Richard; Rodkin, Philip C. – Journal of Emotional and Behavioral Disorders, 2008
This study examines interpersonal competence configurations in relation to students' concurrent behavior problems and social risks for later adjustment difficulties. Participants are 648 (345 girls, 303 boys) fourth-grade students (65% White, 6.9% African American, 19.5% Hispanic, 4.6% Asian, and 4.0% Other) from the suburbs of a major Midwestern…
Descriptors: Research Needs, Behavior Problems, Females, Social Adjustment
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Mishna, Faye – Children & Schools, 2004
This article describes a pilot study using qualitative methods to investigate bullying from the perspectives of the victimized children, their parents, and educators. Interviews were conducted with children in grades 4 and 5 who self-identified as victims, one parent, each child's teacher, and school administrators. Two major themes emerged:…
Descriptors: Bullying, Grade 5, Teaching Methods, Grade 4
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Bell, Mary Lou; Kelley-Baker, Tara; Rider, Raamses; Ringwalt, Christopher – Journal of School Health, 2005
This paper describes an evaluation of Protecting You/Protecting Me (PY/PM), a classroom-based, alcohol-use prevention and vehicle safety program for elementary students in first through fifth grades developed by Mothers Against Drunk Driving. PY/PM lessons and activities focus on teaching children about (1) their brains (why their brain is…
Descriptors: Grade 5, Research Papers (Students), Safety, Prevention
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He, Yeqin; Wang, Qiuying; Anderson, Richard C. – Journal of Educational Psychology, 2005
Two experiments involving Chinese 2nd graders and 4th graders investigated the use of subcharacter information to learn to pronounce unfamiliar semantic-phonetic compound characters. Experiment 1 confirmed that children can use the information in both tone-different and onset-different characters to learn character pronunciations and showed that…
Descriptors: Grade 2, Grade 4, Phonology, Chinese
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Barone, Diane; Schneider, Rebecca – Gifted Child Quarterly, 2003
This qualitative study occurred in a multigrade classroom of 3rd, 4th, and 5th graders in a school labeled at-risk. The focal student in this study was Kirby, identified in this setting as a gifted student. Kirby's classroom teacher and a university researcher collaborated in data collection that included interviews, classroom observations, a…
Descriptors: Academically Gifted, Multigraded Classes, Grade 3, Grade 4
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Shepardson, Daniel P.; Britsch, Susan Jane – Journal of Research in Science Teaching, 2006
This study investigated teacher-child interaction within small-group science activities in a fourth-grade classroom. This qualitative study revealed three "zones of interaction," or teacher-child interaction categories: Individual Zones of Interaction, Multiple Zones of Interaction, and a Collective Zone of Interaction. Each zone was further…
Descriptors: Science Activities, Interaction, Classrooms, Elementary School Science
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McGlothlin, Heidi; Killen, Melanie – Child Development, 2006
Intergroup attitudes were assessed in European American 1st-grade (M=6.99 years, SD=0.32) and 4th-grade (M=10.01 years, SD=0.36) children (N=138) attending ethnically homogeneous schools to test hypotheses about racial biases and interracial friendships. An Ambiguous Situations Task and an Intergroup Contact Assessment were administered to all…
Descriptors: Intergroup Relations, Childhood Attitudes, Grade 1, Grade 4
Mullis, Ina V. S.; Martin, Michael O.; Foy, Pierre – International Association for the Evaluation of Educational Achievement, 2005
This report documents the process undertaken to produce scales in three cognitive domains: knowing, applying, and reasoning. Included are the final scales showing differences among countries, as well as within countries. TIMSS 2003 is the third and most recently completed round of IEA's Trends in International Mathematics and Science Study, a very…
Descriptors: Grade 4, Mathematics Achievement, Grade 8, Cognitive Measurement
Grant, S. G., Ed. – IAP - Information Age Publishing, Inc., 2006
Measuring History complements the cases presented in Wise Social Studies Practices (Yeager & Davis, 2005). Yeager and Davis highlight the rich and ambitious teaching that can occur in the broad context of state-level testing. In this book, the chapter authors and I bring the particular state history tests more to the fore and examine how…
Descriptors: Teacher Characteristics, High Stakes Tests, Program Effectiveness, Educational Change
Lewis, Joan D.; DeCamp-Fritson, Stephanie S.; Ramage, Jean C.; McFarland, Max A.; Archwamety, Teara – Multicultural Education, 2007
The purpose of this study was to compare the effectiveness of the Raven's Standard Progressive Matrices, the Naglieri Nonverbal Abilities Test (NNAT), and the Iowa Test of Basic Skills (ITBS) in selecting for ethnically diverse students who may be gifted. The participants of the study were 175 students enrolled in Grades 3-5 and Grade 8 in a…
Descriptors: Gifted, Elementary Education, Nonverbal Ability, Test Validity
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Noel, Andrea M.; Colopy, Mary Ann – Theory and Research in Social Education, 2006
There is a very limited body of research on how teachers use materials from local history sites in their teaching. This paper reports on a descriptive study that progressed in two phases. In phase one, we surveyed all fourth grade teachers in one county's public schools regarding their use of curriculum materials provided by local history sites,…
Descriptors: Grade 4, Field Trips, Local History, History Instruction
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Parsons, Linda T. – Language Arts, 2006
This study involved fourth grade children as co-researchers of their engaged, aesthetic reading experience. As members of the "Readers as Researchers Club," they documented their engagement with text--how they create, enter, and sustain the story world. The children, who self-identified as avid readers, explored the activities central to their…
Descriptors: Grade 4, Reader Response, Reader Text Relationship, Individualized Reading
Martin, Michael O., Ed.; Mullis, Ina V.S., Ed.; Chrostowski, Steven J., Ed. – International Association for the Evaluation of Educational Achievement, 2004
This volume describes the technical aspects of TIMSS 2003 and summarizes the main activities involved in the development of the data collection instruments, the data collection itself, and the analysis and reporting of the data. The thirteen chapters contained herein are: (1) Overview of TIMSS 2003 (Michael O. Martin and Ina V. S. Mullis); (2)…
Descriptors: Sampling, Quality Control, Science Tests, Grade 4
Urquhart, Vicki – Principal Leadership, 2005
Only one out of five high school teachers believes that students are learning to write well according to research from Public Agenda. Test results confirm their opinion. In 1998, the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) administered a writing assessment to gauge fourth- and eighth-grade students' proficiency in writing narrative,…
Descriptors: Test Results, Writing Evaluation, Writing Tests, Principals
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Henriquez, Andres – Reading Research Quarterly, 2005
The Carnegie Corporation of New York is associated with the very foundations of literacy going back to the philanthropy of Andrew Carnegie himself and of the Corporation in its early years. Andrew Carnegie's legacy includes over 2,500 free public libraries that he saw as a link "bridging ignorance and education." In fact, Carnegie, the…
Descriptors: Corporations, Private Financial Support, Literacy Education, Philanthropic Foundations
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