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Kamini Jaipal-Jamani – Canadian Journal of Learning and Technology, 2024
Integrating STEM education within the elementary school science curriculum in Ontario, Canada, elevated the expectation for elementary preservice teachers to teach STEM skills such as problem-solving through coding. Research shows that educational robotics can promote STEM knowledge and skills. This mixed methods study investigates the effect of…
Descriptors: Robotics, Preservice Teachers, Technology Uses in Education, STEM Education
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Hidi, Suzanne; Berndorff, Dagmar; Ainley, Mary – Learning and Instruction, 2002
Examined how a combination of motivational and instructional variables can be best used in an intervention program to improve students' emotional and cognitive experiences during argument writing. Results for 177 students at a junior intermediate level in Ontario, Canada, show that the intervention programs, which involved instructions on argument…
Descriptors: Elementary School Students, Foreign Countries, Intermediate Grades, Intervention
Crowhurst, Marion – 1987
Focusing on the effects of three interventions on students' reading and writing of persuasive discourse, a study investigated (1) whether the writing of persuasive discourse can be improved by instruction, and (2) the effect of reading on writing and of writing on reading within the persuasive mode. Subjects, 100 Canadian sixth graders stratified…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Foreign Countries, Grade 6, Intermediate Grades