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Relative Effectiveness of DRO and Self-Monitoring in a General Education Classroom
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Vance, Michael J.; Gresham, Frank M.; Dart, Evan H. – Journal of Applied School Psychology, 2012
This manuscript describes a research project designed to examine the relative effectiveness of a two non-function-based interventions (differential reinforcement of other behavior and self- monitoring) for decreasing problem behavior in a general education classroom for three students whose problem behaviors were hypothesized to be functionally…
Descriptors: Behavior Problems, General Education, Reinforcement, Intervention
Imagination in School Children's Choice of Their Learning Environment: An Australian Study
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Bland, Derek; Sharma-Brymer, Vinathe – International Journal of Educational Research, 2012
A visual research project addressed school children's concepts of ideal learning environments. Drawings and accompanying narratives were collected from Year 5 and Year 6 children in nine Queensland primary schools. The 133 submissions were analysed and coded to develop themes, identify key features and consider the uses of imagination. The…
Descriptors: Concept Formation, Educational Policy, Foreign Countries, Imagination
Overview of the Texas Youth Fitness Study
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Morrow, James R., Jr.; Martin, Scott B.; Welk, Gregory J.; Zhu, Weimo; Meredith, Marilu D. – Research Quarterly for Exercise and Sport, 2010
This paper summarizes the historical and legislative backgrounds leading to statewide testing of health-related physical fitness in Texas children grades 3-12 as mandated by Texas Senate Bill 530. The rationale and goals for an associated research project (the Texas Youth Fitness Study, funded by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation) to evaluate…
Descriptors: Health Related Fitness, Testing, State Legislation, Physical Education
Blogging across the Curriculum: An Action Research Project
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Nichols, Andrea – Journal of Educational Multimedia and Hypermedia, 2012
"Blogging across the curriculum: Integrating blogging in the elementary classroom" is an Action Research Project that sought to explore the level of engagement in the writing process by students in grades 3, 4 & 5 while blogging across the curriculum. Blogging took place in homeroom classrooms as well as in the school's math, science and…
Descriptors: Electronic Publishing, Research Projects, Action Research, Writing Processes
Exposing the Impact of Opp(reg)ressive Policies on Teacher Development and on Student Learning
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Rodriguez, Alberto J. – Cultural Studies of Science Education, 2010
This case study draws attention to Pedro's story, a Grade 6 Latino teacher who, along with other grade 4-6 teachers, participated in a three-year professional development research project. By using data analyzed from multiple ethnographic interviews with teachers and students, and by drawing from the quantitative analyzes of concept map unit…
Descriptors: Constructivism (Learning), Concept Mapping, Federal Legislation, Cultural Education
Increase Reading Fluency of 4th and 5th Grade Students with Learning Disabilities Using Readers' Theatre
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Mountford, Kathy A. – Online Submission, 2007
The following Action Research Project Report is to improve the oral reading fluency of the 4th and 5th grade students with learning disabilities. The targeted population participating in this study consisted of a total of ten participants of which five were 4th grade students and five were 5th grade students located in a middle class community…
Descriptors: Middle Class, Intervention, Reading Fluency, Research Projects