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Otten, Mark; Stigler, James W.; Woodward, J. Arthur; Staley, Lisle – Theory and Research in Social Education, 2004
This study examines the influence of a dramatic art-based history program for fifth-grade students on both their learning and enjoyment of history. The program, called "Performing History," reflects theories of effective use of drama in the classroom as well as successful ways to teach history. The program presents historical information as part…
Descriptors: Grade 5, Grade 6, Control Groups, Achievement Tests
Sander, Wesley F. – Teacher Magazine, 2005
This article talks about how a teacher from Rail Road Flat Elementary School, Randall Youngblood, handles his class of 4th, 5th, and 6th graders through discipline. Discipline and the kind of teach-to-the-test learning that has become endemic in the era of No Child Left Behind has kept his students' energy channeled. Such rote learning often gets…
Descriptors: Grade 4, Grade 5, Grade 6, Classroom Techniques
Kazelskis, Richard; Thames, Dana; Reeves, Carolyn; Flynn, Rachael; Taylor, Lorie; Beard, Leigh Ann; Turnbo, Dixie – Professional Educator, 2005
The reliability and stability of Elementary Reading Attitude Survey (ERAS) scores were examined for the recreational and academic subscales and for the total scale. The responses of 718 students in fourth, fifth, and sixth grades were included in the analyses. A seven-day interval between testings was used. The recreational and academic subscale…
Descriptors: Reading Attitudes, Grade 4, Grade 5, Grade 6
de la Barra, Flora; Toledo, Virginia; Rodriguez, Jorge – Child Psychiatry and Human Development, 2005
Five hundred and thirty five Chilean schoolchildren were evaluated with a test-retest procedure using teacher and parent questionnaires in first and sixth grade, respectively, and a measure of self-esteem in sixth grade. According to teachers' ratings, disobedience/aggression, shyness and hyperactivity persisted. Crosspredictions were found:…
Descriptors: Behavior Problems, Student Behavior, Elementary School Students, Grade 1
Kornblum, Michelle; Ainley, Mary – International Education Journal, 2005
The quest for perfection has been anecdotally associated with great achievement and despair; with adjustment and maladjustment. No population has more frequently been associated with perfectionism than the gifted. This study was designed to (i) identify the types of perfectionism observed in a sample of Australian school students, and (ii) to…
Descriptors: Academically Gifted, Adjustment (to Environment), Depression (Psychology), Foreign Countries
Mishra, Arima; Arora, Monika; Stigler, Melissa H.; Komro, Kelli A.; Lytle, Leslie A.; Reddy, K. Srinath; Perry, Cheryl L. – Health Education & Behavior, 2005
This article discusses the findings of Focus Group Discussions (FGDs) that were conducted as a formative assessment for Project MYTRI (Mobilizing Youth for Tobacco Related Initiatives in India), a randomized, multicomponent, school-based trial to prevent and control tobacco use among youth in India. Forty-eight FGDs were conducted with students (N…
Descriptors: Private Schools, Intervention, Smoking, Formative Evaluation
McKinnon, David H.; Geissinger, Helen; Danaia, Lena – Information Technology in Childhood Education Annual, 2002
This article reports on research into learning gains made by children aged 10-12 when they studied astronomy using learning activities in a constructivist environment consolidated by access through the Internet to a scientific-grade telescope. Young people often hold naive or alternative ideas about scientific phenomena from early childhood. Since…
Descriptors: Constructivism (Learning), Astronomy, Concept Formation, Grade 5
Hakkarainen, Kai – Journal of Research in Science Teaching, 2003
The problem addressed in the study was whether 10- and 11-year-old children, collaborating within a computer-supported classroom, could engage in progressive inquiry that exhibits an essential principal feature of mature scientific inquiry: namely, engagement in increasingly deep levels of explanation. Technical infrastructure for the study was…
Descriptors: Grade 5, Teacher Guidance, Scientific Concepts, Intentional Learning
Garcia-Sanchez, Jesus-Nicasio; de Caso-Fuertes, Ana-Maria – International Journal of Educational Research, 2005
This study aimed to investigate the importance of self-efficacy and attitudes to wards writing in writing training. It was also necessary to establish whether these constructs could be more enhanced through a specific intervention as part of the motivational factors, than through training which coaches other writing components such as cognitive…
Descriptors: Writing Attitudes, Self Efficacy, Learning Disabilities, Intervention
Woods, Taniesha A.; Kurtz-Costes, Beth; Rowley, Stephanie J. – Journal of Youth and Adolescence, 2005
African American and European American 4th, 6th, and 8th graders rated the competence of rich and poor children in academics (i.e., math, science, reading, writing, school grades, smartness), sports, and music. In contrast to middle school students, 4th graders favored the rich in all 3 domains. Youth of both races reported that the rich were more…
Descriptors: Stereotypes, Age Differences, Racial Differences, Family Income
Cesar, Margarida; Oliveira, Isolina – European Journal of Psychology of Education, 2005
Portuguese schools in urban areas became multicultural during the 90s. Some students are quite distanced from the school culture. Many repeat grades. The curriculum emerges as a means of (re)organizing school practice, so that it is designed to foster inclusion. It is a tool for social mediation between the culture and knowledge of teenagers, and…
Descriptors: Grade 5, Grade 6, Urban Areas, School Culture
Reima Al-Jarf – Online Submission, 2003
The present study tried to find out whether Saudi history textbooks for grades 4-12 contain global themes, in which grade levels global themes are introduced, the percentage of global themes, local history themes and Islamic history themes, and which global history themes are taught. A checklist of global history themes was developed. Those are:…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, History Instruction, Textbooks, Grade 4
Carmo, Mafalda, Ed. – Online Submission, 2017
This book contains a compilation of papers presented at the International Conference on Education and New Developments (END 2017), organized by the World Institute for Advanced Research and Science (W.I.A.R.S.). Education, in our contemporary world, is a right since we are born. Every experience has a formative effect on the constitution of the…
Descriptors: Educational Quality, Models, Vocational Education, Outcomes of Education
Shapley, Kelly; Sheehan, Daniel; Maloney, Catherine; Caranikas-Walker, Fanny; Huntsberger, Briana; Sturges, Keith – Texas Center for Educational Research, 2007
The Technology Immersion Pilot (TIP) sets forth a vision for technology immersion in Texas public schools. The Texas Education Agency (TEA) originally directed more than $14.5 million in federal Title II, Part D monies toward funding a wireless learning environment for high-need middle schools through a competitive grant process. A concurrent…
Descriptors: Middle Schools, Public Schools, Technology Integration, Academic Achievement
Shapley, Kelly S.; Sheehan, Daniel; Sturges, Keith; Caranikas-Walker, Fanny; Huntsberger, Briana; Maloney, Catherine – Texas Center for Educational Research, 2006
The Technology Immersion Pilot (TIP) sets forth a vision for technology immersion in Texas public schools that links ubiquitous access to technology with student achievement. The Texas Education Agency (TEA) directed nearly $14 million in federal Title II, Part D monies toward funding a wireless learning environment for high-need middle schools…
Descriptors: Middle Schools, Public Schools, Technology Integration, Academic Achievement