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Developing Writing Skills, Writing Attitudes and Motivation through Educational Games: Action Research
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Genç-Ersoy, Berrin; Göl-Dede, Derya – International Journal of Contemporary Educational Research, 2022
This study aims to improve the writing skills, motivation towards writing, and writing attitudes of elementary school students through educational games by eliminating the problems they encounter in the writing process. The study was designed within the scope of cooperative action research, and criterion sampling was used for the sample selection.…
Descriptors: Writing Skills, Writing Attitudes, Student Motivation, Educational Games
An Action Research to Improve Change and Continuity Perception in Social Studies
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Sel, Burcu; Sözer, Mehmet Akif – International Journal of Contemporary Educational Research, 2021
The purpose of this study is to develop the students' skills of change and continuity through activities based on the objects in fourth-grade social studies. In alignment with the scope, an action research design was used in which the researcher is also the executor. A criterion sampling was used for recruitment which resulted in 17 fourth-grade…
Descriptors: Action Research, Social Studies, Skill Development, Change
An Action Research on the Scientist Image of 4th Grade Students
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Alkis Kucukaydin, Mensure – Asia-Pacific Forum on Science Learning and Teaching, 2018
Many scientist image studies have been conducted with the participation of many students from various grades and from various age groups. In these studies, stereotyped images were determined and activities were designed to change the existing ones. However, there are still missing points in Turkey in terms of investigating the scientist image of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Action Research, Scientists, Elementary School Students
Support Services in Social Studies Courses for Students with Hearing Loss
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Akay, Elif – Journal of Education and e-Learning Research, 2018
Social Studies courses aimed to promote the development of critical thinking skills in students. This study focused on the problems two students with hearing loss encountered while they are using three strategies: "identifying and using reference sources", "perception of chronology" and "critical reasoning"…
Descriptors: Social Studies, Hearing Impairments, Critical Thinking, Thinking Skills
Using Digital Stories to Reduce Misconceptions and Mistakes about Fractions: An Action Study
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Karaoglan Yilmaz, Fatma Gizem; Özdemir, Burçin Gökkurt; Yasar, Zehra – International Journal of Mathematical Education in Science and Technology, 2018
The aim of this study is to determine the mistakes and misconceptions about fractions of the fourth-grade students in a primary school and to eliminate these mistakes and misconceptions through digital stories. The study has been conducted with a total of 25 students in the fourth-grade of a private primary school in Turkey. An action research…
Descriptors: Mathematics Instruction, Fractions, Mathematical Concepts, Misconceptions
Improving Reading Comprehension Skills through the SCRATCH Program
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Papatga, Erdal; Ersoy, Ali – International Electronic Journal of Elementary Education, 2016
The aim of this study was to reveal how reading comprehension skills of elementary fourth graders who have problems in reading comprehension can be improved by means of the SCRATCH program. The study was designed as a participant action research. It was carried out within a 15- week process at an elementary school with middle socio-economic level…
Descriptors: Reading Comprehension, Reading Improvement, Elementary School Students, Grade 4