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Halford, Sarah Caroline; Imbeau, Marcia B.; Eilers, Linda H. – Gifted Child Today, 2022
Sixth-grade students who had been identified as gifted and talented participated in a literacy intervention designed and implemented by the first author as part of an action research project. These students were meeting the grade-level standards in literacy, so the project aimed to push their vocabulary knowledge further in order to prepare them…
Descriptors: Action Research, Intervention, Morphology (Languages), Etymology
Deborah B. Malinoski – ProQuest LLC, 2022
The purpose of this action research was to explore how incorporating choice boards as a tool for personalized learning in social studies influenced sixth-grade students to engage in the classroom. Engagement in the classroom is necessary for students to meet educational goals. In order to remain engaged in their learning, students need intrinsic…
Descriptors: Student Motivation, Student Attitudes, Social Studies, Individualized Instruction
Caloyloy, Ruchella P.; Tolentino, Julie S. – Online Submission, 2021
This action research aimed to improve the academic performance of grade six pupils in Araling Panlipunan. The researchers randomly selected fifty (50) grade six pupils from the identified academically challenged struggling pupils in the subject. Twenty-five (25) pupils are in the experimental group and the rest of the 25 pupils under the control…
Descriptors: Remedial Instruction, Academic Achievement, Grade 6, Elementary School Students
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Güvenç, Bahar Karaman; Toprak, Mustafa – Pegem Journal of Education and Instruction, 2022
This study is an aesthetic inquiry, as part of a middle school visual arts class, from the standpoint of Maxine Greene's aesthetic perspective in education. By adopting Maxine Greene's perspective, affective learning comes to the fore along with cognitive learning, and accentuates multiple realities through the imagination through the research…
Descriptors: Aesthetics, Inquiry, Visual Arts, Art Education
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Yadu R. Upreti; Bhimsen Devkota; Sheri Bastien; Bal Chandra Luitel – Educational Action Research, 2024
Nutrition education at school can contribute to developing healthy nutritional behaviours in schoolchildren. This paper critically reflects on how participatory action research (PAR) empowered university researchers and a school community to co-develop a school-based nutrition education programme (SBNEP) that promotes healthy nutritional…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Nutrition Instruction, Action Research, Participatory Research
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Walker, Cheryl L.; Shore, Bruce M.; Tabatabai, Diana – Scandinavian Journal of Educational Research, 2022
Role diversification, the different roles participants adopt within collaborative or inquiry-based teaching and learning environments, is insufficiently understood. We observed two inquiry classroom groups, two teachers and eight students, in weekly visits over three months. Qualitative analysis of audiorecorded interactions, interviews, journals,…
Descriptors: Inquiry, Active Learning, Teaching Methods, Teacher Student Relationship
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McVeety, Emer; Farren, Margaret – Educational Action Research, 2020
This paper describes one child voice enabling strategy that allowed children in sixth class in an urban primary school in Ireland to have a say in the organisation of their learning. The lack of involvement that children have in the organisation of their school week was questioned and this prompted an investigation into a new approach to enabling…
Descriptors: Elementary School Students, Grade 6, Preadolescents, Urban Schools
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Leaman, Heather; Corcoran, Robert – i.e.: inquiry in education, 2018
A university instructor and master teacher describe the limited examples of practitioner research in elementary social studies found in traditional publications. They present a social studies practitioner research project that investigated the use of various technologies in 6th grade geography to improve student engagement, collaboration and…
Descriptors: Social Studies, Geography Instruction, Handheld Devices, Computer Uses in Education
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Dahn, Maggie – Journal of the Learning Sciences, 2022
Background: Art making is a personal and social process in which learners make meaning for themselves and audiences through the production of artifacts. In classrooms, this personal and social process is made concrete through dialogue. Methods: This paper presents an illustrative case study of how sixth-grade student, Jo, developed voice through…
Descriptors: Social Problems, Learning Experience, Artists, Teaching Methods
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Gómez-Giraldo, John Steven – HOW, 2022
This action research study sought to foster dialogic action through the expansion of English language learners' communicative repertoires in a 6th-grade class at a public school in a Colombian town. During the first action research cycle, the restricted concept of communication of the grammar based syllabus and the competitive and violent…
Descriptors: Action Research, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
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Acharya, Kamal Prasad; Devkota, Govinda Prasad; Prasad Dhakal, Krishna – Higher Education Studies, 2020
This article explores the possibilities of the use of eco-san in the school garden in the Nepalese community school, focusing on transformative pedagogical impacts on the social learning environment of the school. In particular, the use of urine as a fertilizer in the school garden through eco-san and linking pedagogical alignment to provide a…
Descriptors: Gardening, Teaching Methods, Transformative Learning, Foreign Countries
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Guo, Siao-Cing; Lan, Yu-Ju – Language Learning & Technology, 2023
This study aims to investigate the influence of story creation on young EFL learners' reading performance. Action research was adopted to examine the effects of two different story reading projects in a library setting in Taiwan. Each project comprised a group of 19 young EFL learner from Grades 4 to 6 (aged 10-12). The first group's activities…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Computer Simulation
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Toksoy, Selnur; Acar, Filiz Evran – Education Sciences, 2019
The aim of this study is to investigate the influence of teacher expectancy improvement strategies on student achievements and attitudes in English courses. We investigated the existing situation, and have presented a method that can provide the educational processes necessary to bring about the required changes. For this reason, the…
Descriptors: Teacher Influence, Educational Improvement, Teacher Student Relationship, Student Attitudes
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Sisquiarco, Angie; Rojas, Santiago Sánchez; Abad, José Vicente – HOW, 2018
This article reports on an action research study that assessed the influence of cognitive and metacognitive strategies-based feedback in the oral performance of a group of 6th grade students at a public school in Medellin, Colombia. Researchers analyzed students' oral performance through assessment and self-assessment rubrics, applied inventories…
Descriptors: Feedback (Response), Learning Strategies, Action Research, Grade 6
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Varga, Anita – Literacy, 2017
The current study is a contribution to reading research dealing with tuition in reading comprehension and specifically with the issue of arranging tuition to support the development of metacognition. The empirical findings referred to in this study are from textual discussions of works of fiction in grades 6 and 7. The specific focus of the study…
Descriptors: Metacognition, Reading Research, Correlation, Fiction
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