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Fetissoff, Kira; Kry, Jeannie; Skilling, Aryn – Online Submission, 2008
In the action research project report the teacher researchers targeted 70 elementary students in third- and fifth-grade classrooms that demonstrated a lack of social skills necessary to work cooperatively in a classroom. The purpose of the project was to improve the social skills in children. The three teacher researchers who conducted this action…
Descriptors: Check Lists, Intervention, Observation, Teacher Surveys
Romeo, Lynn – Reading & Writing Quarterly, 2008
This article presents a comprehensive model of daily, classroom informal writing assessment that is constantly linked to instruction and the characteristics of proficient writers. Methods for promoting teacher, student, and parent collaboration and their roles in dialoguing, conferencing, and reflection are discussed. Strategies for including…
Descriptors: Writing Evaluation, Student Evaluation, Self Efficacy, Informal Assessment
Hyde, Janet S.; Else-Quest, Nicole M.; Alibali, Martha W.; Knuth, Eric; Romberg, Thomas – Journal of Mathematical Behavior, 2006
Parents are a largely untapped resource for improving the mathematics performance of American children, which lags behind the performance of children from other nations. The purpose of the research reported here was to assess homework practices in the home, and to examine interactions between mothers and their 5th grade children as they worked…
Descriptors: Homework, Mothers, Mathematics Achievement, Grade 5
Schultz, Rosemary – Journal of School Public Relations, 2006
In December 2004, the "Amarillo Globe News" reported on a "Dallas Morning News" story that analyzed state-mandated test scores from across Texas (Benton & Hacker, 2004; Wilson, 2004). According the "Amarillo Globe News," "the Dallas Morning News" study implicated Sunrise Elementary School, in Amarillo,…
Descriptors: High Stakes Tests, Mathematics Tests, Testing, Cheating
Parke, Ross D.; Coltrane, Scott; Duffy, Sharon; Buriel, Raymond; Dennis, Jessica; Powers, Justina; French, Sabine; Widaman, Keith F. – Child Development, 2004
To assess the impact of economic hardship on 111 European American and 167 Mexican American families and their 5th-grade (M age 11.4 years) children, a family stress model was evaluated. Structural equation analyses revealed that economic hardship was linked to indexes of economic pressure that were related to depressive symptoms for mothers and…
Descriptors: Child Rearing, Marital Instability, Depression (Psychology), Mexican Americans
Saat, Rohaida Mohd – Research in Science and Technological Education, 2004
Web-based learning is becoming prevalent in science learning. Some use specially designed programs, while others use materials available on the Internet. This qualitative case study examined the process of acquisition of integrated science process skills, particularly the skill of controlling variables, in a web-based learning environment among…
Descriptors: Grade 5, Case Studies, Teacher Student Relationship, Instructional Materials
Mason, Lucia; Scrivani, Luisa – Learning and Instruction, 2004
This paper introduces a study aimed at ascertaining students' beliefs about mathematics and mathematical learning, as well as developing those beliefs and related variables by changing the classroom learning environment. Eighty-six fifth graders were involved, divided in two groups: one in the innovative learning environment (N=46) and the other…
Descriptors: Mathematics Education, Program Effectiveness, Classroom Environment, Grade 5
Gest, Scott D.; Welsh, Janet A.; Domitrovich, Celene E. – Journal of School Psychology, 2005
Normative trends and behavioral predictors for three dimensions of social relatedness were examined in a 6-month longitudinal study of 383 students in Grades 3, 4 and 5. Student reports of social relatedness (teacher supportiveness, school supportiveness, loneliness) and liking school indicated that students in each of the grades felt less…
Descriptors: Psychological Patterns, Aggression, Educational Environment, Student Behavior
Boero, Paolo; Douek, Nadia; Garuti, Rossella – International Group for the Psychology of Mathematics Education, 2003
"How many are the numbers?", "How many numbers are there between 1 and 2?" These tasks were set in three fifth grade classes in an educational environment characterised by an alternation of classroom discussions orchestrated by the teacher and students' production of individual reports. They allowed us to analyse both the short term evolution of…
Descriptors: Discussion (Teaching Technique), Interpersonal Relationship, Interaction, Grade 5
Schwartz, David; Hopmeyer-Gorman, Andrea; Toblin, Robin L.; Abou-ezzeddine, Tania – New Directions for Child and Adolescent Development, 2003
This chapter focuses on the moderating role of inimical peer relationships in the association between community violence exposure and children's functioning difficulties. A series of hierarchical regression analyses demonstrated that community violence exposure is consistently related to psychosocial maladjustment only for children who are…
Descriptors: Adjustment (to Environment), Peer Groups, Violence, Community
Schweinle, Amy; Meyer, Debra K.; Turner, Julianne C. – Journal of Educational Research, 2006
The authors explored the relationship between motivation and affect in upper elementary mathematics classes from the perspective of flow theory. They also investigated the relationship between students' motivation and teachers' instructional practices. Students' reported classroom experiences formed 4 factors--Social Affect, Personal Affect,…
Descriptors: Self Efficacy, Student Motivation, Elementary School Mathematics, Factor Analysis
Sawyer, R. Keith – Teaching Education, 2004
Effective classroom discussion is improvisational, because its effectiveness derives from the fact that it is not scripted. Instead, the flow of the class is unpredictable, and emerges from the actions of both teachers and students. In this article, I apply principles from training classes for improvisational actors to provide practical…
Descriptors: Constructivism (Learning), Discussion, Creative Activities, Classroom Communication
Fleming, Louise Conn; Billman, Linda Webb – Middle School Journal (J3), 2005
Teacher educators routinely encounter middle grades teachers who like to include more environmental literacy in their curricula. These educators of children in grades four through nine believe that it might be considered "fluff," take away from the class time needed to meet varying state mandates or standards, be difficult to implement, or all of…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Environmental Education, Middle Schools, Problem Solving
Clarke, Lane W. – Language Arts, 2005
This article describes an exploration of activities that can encourage students to think more critically about the influences on their gender and identity. Using read aloud, literature circles, and mini-lessons rooted in the students' experiences, the author's successes and failures are explored within a context where students are placed at the…
Descriptors: Critical Thinking, Grade 5, Elementary School Students, Student Centered Curriculum
Brand, Max – Stenhouse Publishers, 2004
Tired of assigning weekly spelling lists that students memorize for the test only to have them misspell the words in their daily writing? Then join Max Brand in his fifth-grade classroom where word learning is integrated fully into literacy workshops. Using spelling investigations, word study notebooks, reading logs, and writers' notebooks,…
Descriptors: Grade 5, Classroom Environment, Sentences, Spelling Instruction