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Isabelle C. de Vink; Lisette Hornstra; Evelyn H. Kroesbergen – Creativity Research Journal, 2024
Creative thinking is an important aspect of education. However, students differ widely in their ability to think creatively. Working memory might explain these differences. Therefore, this study focuses on how different aspects of WM can explain differences in divergent thinking, both separately and conjointly. To do so, latent profile analysis…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Grade 4, Grade 5, Creative Thinking
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Liru Hu; Gaowei Chen; Jiajun Wu – Journal of Computer Assisted Learning, 2024
Background: The existing research on dialogue-based learning and teaching predominantly highlights its capacity to yield productive educational outcomes, yet it often overlooks the pivotal factor of participation equity, which is fundamental to ensuring the efficacy of dialogic teaching and learning. Objectives: In this study, participation equity…
Descriptors: Problem Solving, Participation, Equal Education, Student Participation
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Burak, Durmus; Gültekin, Mehmet – International Journal on Social and Education Sciences, 2021
In this study, it is aimed to develop a measurement tool that can determine the learning styles of students in order to provide efficient learning environments in primary schools. For this purpose, a draft scale form consisting of 24 items defining verbal and visual learning styles on theoretical basis was prepared. Then, using the draft scale…
Descriptors: Cognitive Style, Learning Modalities, Visual Learning, Verbal Learning
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Inaltekin, Tufan; Goksu, Volkan – International Journal of Progressive Education, 2019
The aim of this study is to analyze the types of visual representations in primary and secondary science textbooks in Turkey. The sample of the research constitutes six textbooks prepared by private publishers for primary and secondary science courses (3rd -8 th Grade) in Turkey in 2018-2019 academic year. Document analysis design, which is one of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Elementary Secondary Education, Science Education, Textbooks
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Cappello, Marva; Lafferty, Karen E. – Reading Teacher, 2015
Teachers can capitalize on the overwhelmingly visual nature of contemporary society for learning and teaching through integrating photography in their classroom instruction. In offering an alternative pathway for acquiring and expressing knowledge, photography has the potential to strengthen instruction across disciplines by drawing on multiple…
Descriptors: Photography, Teaching Methods, Elementary School Science, Grade 4
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Bruun, Faye; Diaz, Joan M.; Dykes, Valerie J. – Teaching Children Mathematics, 2015
Students may excel in computation, but their ability to apply their skills will suffer if they do not understand the math vocabulary used in instructions and story problems. This action research project examines two methods for strengthening students' ability to communicate mathematically: (1) Journal writing and peer discussion; and (2) The…
Descriptors: Action Research, Teaching Methods, Journal Writing, Peer Groups
Huckabee, Jennifer Ellen – Online Submission, 2013
Due to the controversial nature of previous research it is unclear whether music has positive or negative effect on cognition. Previous studies tested different styles and tempos of music, and have found that songs with faster beats distract learning. There have been numerous studies and each study refutes another study. Research has been done on…
Descriptors: Reading Fluency, Grade 4, Elementary School Students, Music
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Mason, Lucia; Tornatora, Maria Caterina; Pluchino, Patrik – Computers & Education, 2013
This study used eye-tracking methodology in the school setting to examine fourth graders' online processing of text and graphics while reading an illustrated science text. We were interested in identifying patterns of visual behavior, which was examined considering individual differences in reading comprehension, prior knowledge, and spatial…
Descriptors: Multimedia Materials, Pretests Posttests, Correlation, Web Based Instruction
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Moll, Kristina; Landerl, Karin – Scientific Studies of Reading, 2009
In two studies dissociations between reading and spelling skills were examined. Study 1 reports equally high prevalence rates for isolated deficits in reading (7%) or spelling (6%) in a representative sample (N = 2,029) of German-speaking elementary school children. In Study 2, children with isolated deficits were presented with the same words to…
Descriptors: Elementary School Students, Spelling, Economically Disadvantaged, Phonological Awareness
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Ding, Yi; Richman, Lynn C.; Yang, Ling-yan; Guo, Jian-peng – Journal of Learning Disabilities, 2010
The purpose of this study was to evaluate rapid automatized naming skills (RAN) and immediate memory processes in 243 Chinese Mandarin-speaking elementary readers (ranging from Grade 1 to Grade 5). For RAN subtests, the mean naming time decreased monotonically with grade level in good and average readers, and a similar trajectory was found in poor…
Descriptors: Cues, Speech Communication, Reading Difficulties, Disabilities
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Allen, Thomas E.; Clark, M. Diane; del Giudice, Alex; Koo, Daniel; Lieberman, Amy; Mayberry, Rachel; Millerd, Paul – American Annals of the Deaf, 2009
Four critical responses to an article, "The Role of Phonology and Phonologically Related Skills in Reading Instruction for Students Who Are Deaf or Hard of Hearing" (Wang, Trezek, Luckner, & Paul, 2008), are presented. Issue is taken with the conclusions of the article by Wang and colleagues regarding the "necessary" condition of phonological…
Descriptors: Reading Comprehension, Phonology, Partial Hearing, Deafness
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Whitin, Phyllis – Research in the Teaching of English, 2005
This teacher-research study examines the roles of talk and metaphorical representation in the construction of personal and social literary interpretation. Over three years, the investigator collected data from fourth-grade children's sketched interpretations about literature, their written commentaries, and conversations that occurred before,…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Figurative Language, Freehand Drawing, Reader Response