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Wolgast, Anett – Large-scale Assessments in Education, 2018
Background: Beliefs about one's own abilities and perspective-taking are essential for appropriate behavior in professional and social life, cooperative learning, and situations were conflict is occurring. The social comparison theory and previous research suggested positive relations between school students' beliefs about one's own abilities and…
Descriptors: Beliefs, Student Attitudes, Perspective Taking, Grade 5
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Moller, Asa – Issues in Educational Research, 2012
Compensatory pedagogy is in theory a strategy used to manage social and cultural diversity (Sleeter, 2007) by providing extra resources or special treatment for so-called deprived groups. A problem with this particular kind of approach to social and cultural diversity is that it lacks critical awareness of the way social differences (i.e. race,…
Descriptors: Academic Support Services, Disadvantaged, Social Differences, Cultural Pluralism
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Holliway, David R. – Journal of Research in Childhood Education, 2004
The findings in the study suggest "reading-as-the-reader" can improve 5th- and 9th-grade writers' ability to compose descriptive writing consistent with their readers' informational needs. Participants included: 154 writers (78 fifth-graders and 76 ninth-graders) and 52 ninth-grade readers. The study adapted the referential communication design…
Descriptors: Descriptive Writing, Writing Improvement, Grade 5, Grade 9