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Shaw, Joan – Teacher Librarian, 2004
In school library research programs, a challenge for students doing research emerges when they take their projects home and turn to their parents for assistance. Often parents lack sufficient knowledge of the research process to be able to effectively help their children. Moreover, teachers expect parents to monitor student homework but rarely…
Descriptors: Student Research, Scoring Rubrics, Student Projects, Grading
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Bryson, Linda – Science and Children, 2004
This article describes one fifth grade's participation in in NASA's S'COOL (Students' Cloud Observations On-Line) Project, making cloud observations, reporting them online, exploring weather concepts, and gleaning some of the things involved in authentic scientific research. S?COOL is part of a real scientific study of the effect of clouds on…
Descriptors: Grade 5, Scientific Research, Science Education, Weather
Burke, Mary A.; Sass, Tim R. – Federal Reserve Bank of Boston, 2008
In this paper we analyze the impact of classroom peers on individual student performance with a unique longitudinal data set covering all Florida public school students in grades 3-10 over a five-year period. Unlike many previous data sets used to study peer effects in education, our data set allow us to identify each member of a given student's…
Descriptors: Teacher Effectiveness, Student Evaluation, Academic Achievement, Peer Groups
Alatorre, Silvia; Figueras, Olimpia – International Group for the Psychology of Mathematics Education, 2003
In this article, which is part of an ongoing research, a classification is proposed for ratio comparison problems, according to their context, their quantity type, and their numerical structure. Deriving from this classification, an interview protocol was designed, and guidelines for the interpretation of answers into strategies were decided. A…
Descriptors: Interviews, Research Design, Mathematical Concepts, Comparative Analysis
Purdie, Nola; Ellis, Louise – Australian Council for Educational Research, 2005
This review has been prepared by the Australian Council for Educational research (ACER) under an Agreement with the Australian Government Department of Education, Science and Training (DEST). It is one component of a project to investigate effective third wave intervention strategies for students and learning difficulties that persist beyond the…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Learning Problems, Intervention, Educational Research
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Cuccaro, Carlo; Geitner, Geri – TEACHING Exceptional Children Plus, 2007
A group of fifth-grade students who had persistent problems at lunch and recess were identified and provided with direct instruction in pro-social skills. These skills were taught by the authors in a two-week program that they called the "Alternative to Lunch Program for Students" (ALPS). This action research study measured the impact of…
Descriptors: Direct Instruction, Behavior Problems, Intervention, Action Research
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Ikpeze, Chinwe H.; Boyd, Fenice B. – Reading Teacher, 2007
An action research study investigated how the multiple tasks found in WebQuests facilitate fifth-grade students' literacy skills and higher order thinking. Findings indicate that WebQuests are most successful when activities are carefully selected and systematically delivered. Implications for teaching include the necessity for adequate planning,…
Descriptors: Grade 5, Literacy, Action Research, Web Based Instruction
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Boyd, Maureen; Rubin, Don – Journal of Literacy Research, 2006
Research on traditional classrooms paints a picture of teachers controlling talk patterns and of students producing minimal amounts of mainly procedural talk, recitation-type talk, or both. Often this bleak state of affairs is attributed to teachers' overreliance on inauthentic display questions--questions that impose tight thematic control and…
Descriptors: Classroom Communication, Elementary Education, Questioning Techniques, Teaching Methods
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Glenn, William J. – Journal of Education Finance, 2009
School finance adequacy litigation has become a widely-used means in the efforts to improve educational outcomes for children. This form of litigation has been attempted in nearly every state over the past two decades. Despite its prevalence, its effectiveness remains questionable due to a lack of study relating finance litigation to student…
Descriptors: Outcomes of Education, Academic Achievement, Achievement Tests, Regression (Statistics)
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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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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
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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Clarke, Lane W. – Journal of Literacy Research, 2006
This qualitative study uses an analysis of literature circle discussions to illuminate larger issues of gender and social class for a group of fifth-grade students. By examining how four students were positioned and positioned themselves within these literature conversations, I demonstrate that the roles reproduced certain gender- and…
Descriptors: Grade 5, Females, Males, Gender Issues
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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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