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Eden, Sigal; Shmila, Livnat – Journal of Educational Computing Research, 2023
The study investigates the effect of hybrid technology (HT), which combine physical objects and virtual effects, on learning receptive-vocabulary in English as a foreign-language (EFL) among students with dyslexia. Participants included 106 students aged 9-12. The students with dyslexia were randomly divided into intervention groups that used…
Descriptors: Educational Technology, Blended Learning, Receptive Language, Vocabulary Development
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Tzuriel, David; Schorr-Edelsztein, Hani; Bauminger-Zvieli, Nirit – Journal of Cognitive Education and Psychology, 2018
Children with specific learning disabilities (SLD) exhibit specific difficulties in high-order components of emotional understanding that involve language (e.g., recognition of complex emotions from situations), or defining emotions and providing examples. The objectives of the current study were to study (a) modifiability of emotional…
Descriptors: Learning Disabilities, Emotional Response, Language Skills, Intervention
Bar, Varda; Brosh, Yaffa; Sneider, Cary – Science Educator, 2016
Threshold concepts are essential ideas about the natural world that present either a barrier or a gateway to a deep understanding of science. Weight, mass, and gravity are threshold concepts that underpin students' abilities to understand important ideas in all fields of science, embodied in the performance expectations in the Next Generation…
Descriptors: Scientific Concepts, Physics, Concept Formation, Science Instruction
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Orbach, Israel; Florian, Victor – Omega: Journal of Death and Dying, 1992
Examined impact of religion and gender on fifth graders' (n=142) attitudes toward life and death. Although all children displayed high attraction and low repulsion to life and low attraction and high repulsion to death, religious children displayed higher attraction to death. Found main effect of gender and gender x religiosity interaction.…
Descriptors: Childhood Attitudes, Death, Foreign Countries, Grade 5