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Advancing Integrated STEM Learning through Engineering Design: Sixth-Grade Students' Design and Construction of Earthquake Resistant Buildings
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English, Lyn D.; King, Donna; Smeed, Joanna – Journal of Educational Research, 2017
As part of a 3-year longitudinal study, 136 sixth-grade students completed an engineering-based problem on earthquakes involving integrated STEM learning. Students employed engineering design processes and STEM disciplinary knowledge to plan, sketch, then construct a building designed to withstand earthquake damage, taking into account a number of…
Descriptors: STEM Education, Engineering, Design, Elementary School Students
A Study of Reading Comprehension in Older Children Using Selected Korean Bible Translations
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Kim, Jae Woo – ProQuest LLC, 2014
Problem: The problem of this study was to determine the difference in Bible comprehension scores among gender-based groups of older children using selected passages from three Bible translations: the Children's Bible, the Easy Bible, and the New Revised Korean Bible. Procedures: A total of 288 older children in three churches (Beautiful Baptist…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Reading Comprehension, Grade 5, Elementary School Students
The Indicating Factors of Oral Reading Fluency of Monolingual and Bilingual Children in Egypt
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Hussien, Abdelaziz M. – International Education Studies, 2014
This study examined oral reading fluency (ORF) of bilingual and monolingual students. The author selected a sample of 510 (258 males and 252 females) native Arabic-speaking sixth-graders (62 bilinguals and 448 monolinguals) in Egypt. The purposes were; (a) to examine oral reading rate, oral reading accuracy, prosody, and oral reading comprehension…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Oral Reading, Reading Fluency, Reading Comprehension
The Relationship between the Introduction of Multiple Interventions and Academic Progress for At-Risk Third- through Sixth-Grade Students
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Schleizer, Shawn M. A. – ProQuest LLC, 2011
Accelerating the acquisition of reading skills in at-risk third- through sixth-grade students is critically important if educators expect to meet federal and state performance targets and also meet children's needs. In an attempt to rapidly advance learning in reading, a large urban school district provided a group of 2,227 students performing…
Descriptors: Urban Schools, Intervention, Academic Achievement, Decision Making
Linking Laptops to Learning: Analysis of a 1:1 Environment with Intermediate Learners
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Cottone, Mark Anthony – ProQuest LLC, 2013
The purpose of this study is to examine how the 1:1 laptop initiative impacted student achievement for the students at a single intermediate school (grades 4-6) in Mooresville, North Carolina. Researchers Dunleavy, Dexter, & Heinecke, 2007; Mouza, 2008; O'Dwyer, Russell, Bebell & Tucker-Seeley, 2005 have called for additional research…
Descriptors: Access to Computers, Laptop Computers, Computer Uses in Education, Intermediate Grades
Readers' Theater as a Strategy to Increase Comprehension and Fluency in Sixth Grade Students
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Caudill-Hansen, Karen J. – ProQuest LLC, 2009
Serious reading problems exist among middle school learners as evidenced by declining national reading scores and increased dropout rates. In response to the No Child Left Behind (NCLB) expectations in reading, several experts have promoted a scripted repeated reading strategy such as readers' theater as a possible approach to improving student…
Descriptors: Reading Difficulties, Grade 6, Middle School Students, Intermediate Grades