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Lin, Chi-Syan; Chou, C. Candace; Kuo, Ming-Shiou – International Journal of Distance Education Technologies, 2007
The paper outlines a new paradigm and its underlying rationales for implementing networked learning environments that is emerging from new technologies such as multi-user platform, virtual worlds, virtual learning community, and intelligent agents. The proposed paradigm of the networked learning environments is described as inhabited virtual…
Descriptors: Technology Uses in Education, Educational Technology, Networks, Simulated Environment
Zimmerman, Stacy M.; Phelps, Erin; Lerner, Richard M. – European Journal of Developmental Science, 2007
Using data from Grades 5, 6, and 7 of the 4-H Study of Positive Youth Development (PYD), the role of intentional self-regulation in the positive development of young adolescents was examined through use of the Selection, Optimization, and Compensation (SOC) measure. Consistent with Gestsdóttir and Lerner (2007), results of confirmatory factor…
Descriptors: Self Control, Grade 5, Grade 6, Grade 7
Wright, Loyd S. – Journal of Drug Education, 2007
This article describes the implementation of an innovative curriculum called Drugs-At-Work (DAW), which was evaluated in three phases. In phase-one, data collected after the third year of the study suggested that the curriculum had a significant impact on the fifth-grade participants, who in turn influenced their sixth-grade classmates the…
Descriptors: Norms, Drug Education, Program Effectiveness, Grade 5
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
Maxwell, Jeffrey S.; He, Beixin Julie; deProphetis, Wendy; Gimm, J. Aura – Science Scope, 2006
This article discusses how soap bubbles can be used to teach scientific principles such as phases of matter and the reflection of light. The study of soap bubbles addresses the National Science Education Standards for grades 5-8 related to the properties and changes of properties in matter. The exercises suggested here can be flexible in terms of…
Descriptors: Scientific Principles, Optics, Molecular Structure, Demonstrations (Educational)
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

Chang, Chiung-Sui – Adolescence (San Diego): an international quarterly devoted to the physiological, psychological, psychiatric, sociological, and educational aspects of the second decade of human life, 2007
The study developed a Big 6 Information Problem-Solving Scale (B61PS), including the subscales of task definition and information-seeking strategies, information access and synthesis, and evaluation. More than 1,500 fifth and sixth graders in Taiwan responded. The study revealed that the scale showed adequate reliability in assessing the…
Descriptors: Problem Solving, Early Adolescents, Measures (Individuals), Foreign Countries
Akos, Patrick; Shoffner, Marie; Ellis, Mark – Professional School Counseling, 2007
The transition to middle school has been a frequent research topic in recent years. The findings have highlighted both the significant risk and opportunity for school counselor intervention in the transition. One particularly important component of the multifaceted transition is course placement. The importance and influence of mathematics and…
Descriptors: School Counselors, Student Placement, School Counseling, Transitional Programs
Beverly, Clara – Atkinson, Mentzer & Company, 1914
The fundamental idea of "Oral English" Books I and II is "appeal to the ear." In many books on oral English, both the eye and the ear are appealed to at the same time. In this book the first appeal is to the ear alone. Contents include 24 fifth-grade lessons; 23 sixth-grade lessons; 30 seventh-grade lessons; and 40 eighth-grade…
Descriptors: Textbooks, Oral Language, Grade 5, Grade 6

Rotenberg, Ken J.; Boulton, Michael J.; Fox, Claire L. – Journal of Abnormal Child Psychology, 2005
Four hundred and thirty-four children enrolled in school years 5 and 6 in the United Kingdom were administered measures of trust beliefs in peers/best friends and psychosocial functioning (internalized maladjustment, self-perceived social acceptance, social preference, and social exclusion) across an 8-month period (mean age = 9 years-9 months at…
Descriptors: Trust (Psychology), Grade 5, Grade 6, Adjustment (to Environment)
Arzarello, Ferdinando; Robutti, Ornella; Bazzini, Luciana – Cambridge Journal of Education, 2005
The purpose of this paper is to focus on the nature of the thinking processes supporting pupils' construction and understanding of mathematical concepts. We assume that interaction with reality plays a crucial role in learning. In particular, human perception and action and, more generally, interaction with artefacts, are very important for…
Descriptors: Grade 5, Grade 6, Students, Interaction
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
Ridenour, Ty A.; Greenberg, Mark T.; Cook, Elizabeth T. – Journal of Youth and Adolescence, 2006
No self-report measure of attachment is well validated for middle-childhood. This study examined the validity and factor structure of the People in My Life (PIML) measure in 320 urban, fifth and sixth graders. Validity analyses consisted of correlational analyses between PIML subscales and the Child Behavior Checklist, Delinquency Rating Scale for…
Descriptors: Factor Structure, Validity, Attachment Behavior, Grade 5
Reppa, Glykeria P. – Science Education International, 2007
Enjoyment and mood affection are considered to be main targets of intervention to promote physical activity (PA). Health education based on PA is seeking to explore the factors that affect children to foster and retain healthy habits. This study recognizes that the teaching methodology is crucial and attempts to investigate the effect two…
Descriptors: Emotional Response, Psychological Patterns, Affective Behavior, Motivation
Salmivalli, Christina; Ojanen, Tiina; Haanpaa, Jemina; Peets, Katlin – Developmental Psychology, 2005
This study examined the links among 5th and 6th graders' (279 girls and 310 boys) self- and peer perceptions, social goals, and social behavior. Social goals mediated the effects of self- and peer perceptions on 3 types of behavior: proactive aggression, prosocial behavior, and withdrawal. In addition to their main effects (self-perception…
Descriptors: Grade 6, Grade 5, Prosocial Behavior, Peer Relationship