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Happs, John; Mansfield, Helen – Arithmetic Teacher, 1992
Discusses how students construct mental images that aid estimation skills in the measurement of angles. Reports research identifying four strategies that students use to estimate sizes of angles. Strategies include utilization of the mental images of (1) a protractor; (2) a right angle; (3) a half-turn; and (4) angles of a polygon. (MDH)
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Concept Formation, Elementary Education, Estimation (Mathematics)
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King, Rhonda; King, John – Social Education, 1998
Reports on a study that focused on Australian students' cognitive and social skills in group decision-making activities conducted in the classroom. Finds that students were motivated to participate in group decision-making and that students' decision-making strategies are destructive when students assert their own ideas at the expense of others.…
Descriptors: Decision Making, Decision Making Skills, Foreign Countries, Group Activities
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Ninnes, Peter – Discourse: Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education, 2004
Cultural diversity is a key concept informing the recently introduced New South Wales Stages 4 and 5 (junior high school) science syllabus. In this paper I undertake a genealogical analysis of the discourses of culture and cultural diversity found in the syllabus itself and in the accompanying syllabus support document. The discourses used in the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Cultural Pluralism, Science Curriculum, Middle Schools
Watson, Jane M.; Chick, Helen L. – International Group for the Psychology of Mathematics Education, 2004
Three hundred and twenty-four middle school students considered a group of three graphs in a newspaper article about boating deaths. The graphs contained discrepancies and the students were asked to "comment on unusual features." This form of questioning produced a distribution of responses surprising to the authors and perhaps…
Descriptors: Statistical Analysis, Graphs, Middle School Students, Mathematics Education
English, Lyn D.; Doerr, Helen M. – International Group for the Psychology of Mathematics Education, 2003
Traditional word problems have not fulfilled the goal of mathematical sense-making for many students. Some studies have shown that authentic contexts, such as model-eliciting tasks, have the potential to engage students in making sense of realistic situations. However, there has been little research on the kinds of knowledge needed by teachers to…
Descriptors: Data Analysis, Word Problems (Mathematics), Teaching Methods, Mathematics Instruction
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Hunter, Lisa – Sport, Education and Society, 2004
This paper considers the social space of one physical education (PE) class in the middle years of schooling. I endeavour to tease out the dialectic between the discursive spaces available to the students positioned within this space and the construction and negotiation of student subjectivities. Using the conceptual tools of field, habitus,…
Descriptors: Physical Education, Middle School Students, Elementary School Students, Human Body
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Geelan, David R. – Research in Science Education, 1997
Presents a study that uses a quasi-ethnographic methodology employing impressionistic tales of the field to explore constraints and successes encountered by teachers while implementing innovative teaching approaches in middle school classrooms. A new middle school structure blended elementary and secondary school cultures. Presents three tales…
Descriptors: Constructivism (Learning), Educational Innovation, Epistemology, Ethnography
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Howie, Mark – English in Australia, 2002
Discusses accounts of classroom practices which draw on socially critical literacy approaches. Outlines how the author was able to work in partnership with an academic mentor in the implementation of a unit of work on Advertising. Notes that what made this unit distinctively English was that a "culture of critique" was established which…
Descriptors: Advertising, Critical Thinking, Curriculum Development, English Instruction
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Johnson, Bruce; Peters, Judith; Williams, David – Journal of Education for Teaching, 1999
Describes the experiences of a group of university colleagues working with middle schools in an Australian collaborative research project on authentic assessment, focusing on the tensions that arose from the diverse expectations of the schools, the particular project, the university, and the academics, and describing how the project supported and…
Descriptors: College Faculty, College School Cooperation, Faculty Development, Foreign Countries
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Williamson, Laurie L. – Professional School Counseling, 1997
Describes a family intervention and support program which uses counseling, behavior management, and skills-development. The program provides support for parents, addressing their emotional needs and helping them learn and then teach problem-solving skills. Discusses techniques, such as active listening skills, team training procedures, and…
Descriptors: Elementary Education, Middle Schools, Parent Role, Parent School Relationship
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She, Hsiao-Ching; Fisher, Darrell – Science Education, 2000
Describes the development and validation of a questionnaire, the Teacher Communication Behavior Questionnaire (TCBQ), that assesses student perceptions of five important teacher behaviors: (1) Challenging; (2) Encouragement and Praise; (3) Non-Verbal Support; (4) Understanding and Friendly; and (5) Controlling. (Contains 49 references.)…
Descriptors: Classroom Environment, Constructivism (Learning), Evaluation, Foreign Countries
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Dawson, Chris – International Journal of Science Education, 2000
Reports on a study of the attitudes of South Australian primary school students toward science. Finds that overall interest in studying science has decreased since a similar study was performed in 1980. (Contains 22 references.) (Author/WRM)
Descriptors: Educational Change, Females, Followup Studies, Foreign Countries
Lucas, Keith B.; Cohen, Michael R. – Australian Science Teachers' Journal, 1999
Reviews approaches used in teaching seasons to elementary and middle school students over the past 200 years. Finds that the same diagrams have been used from the 1800s to teach about the seasons despite changes in the background knowledge of students and teachers, and changes in theories of teaching and learning. (Contains 24 references.)…
Descriptors: Earth Science, Elementary Education, Foreign Countries, Learning Theories
Kruse, Darryn – 1996
Recognizing the necessity of examining the needs of early adolescents and changing the focus of middle grades education in Australia, this report describes the findings from the Northcote Network of Schools, 8 primary and 2 secondary schools collaborating to develop continuity and coherence across grades 5 through 8. The paper outlines activities…
Descriptors: Class Organization, Class Size, Computer Uses in Education, Cooperative Learning
Pegg, John; Graham, Lorraine; Bellert, Anne – International Group for the Psychology of Mathematics Education, 2005
This research report summarises the results of an exploratory teaching program in a primary and secondary school in rural New South Wales, Australia, focused on improving basic mathematics skills. Pupils, aged 11 to 13 years, identified as consistently low-achieving in Mathematics were targeted. The program ran for approximately twenty-five weeks…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Mathematics Instruction, Foreign Countries, Mathematics Skills
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