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Zacharia, Zacharias C.; Loizou, Eleni; Papaevripidou, Marios – Early Childhood Research Quarterly, 2012
The purpose of this study was to investigate whether physicality (actual and active touch of concrete material), as such, is a necessity for science experimentation learning at the kindergarten level. We compared the effects of student experimentation with Physical Manipulatives (PM) and Virtual Manipulatives (VM) on kindergarten students'…
Descriptors: Prior Learning, Young Children, Kindergarten, Science Experiments
Phillips, William E.; Feng, Jay – Online Submission, 2012
A quasi-experimental action research with a pretest-posttest same subject design was implemented to determine if there is a different effect of the flash card method and the multisensory approach on kindergarteners' achievement in sight word recognition, and which method is more effective if there is any difference. Instrumentation for pretest and…
Descriptors: Instructional Effectiveness, Action Research, Instructional Materials, Teaching Methods
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Bara, Florence; Gentaz, Edouard; Cole, Pascale – British Journal of Developmental Psychology, 2007
This study assessed the effects of multi-sensory training on the understanding of the alphabetic principle in kindergarten children from low socio-economic status families. Two interventions were compared, called HVAM (visual and haptic exploration of letters) and VAM (visual exploration of letters). The interventions were conducted by either…
Descriptors: Kindergarten, Young Children, Reading, Low Income Groups