To identify the characteristics of professional publications preferred by teachers, 200 primary-grade teachers selected at random from the membership of the International Reading Association (IRA) completed a questionnaire about their concerns in reading, the sources consulted for assistance, and the features preferred. A subsample of 25 completed…

The problem was to determine the relationship between performance on Piagetian class inclusion tasks and on missing-addend computation and verbal problem tasks for first-Grade students, and to describe the methods used by the children in solving both the missing-addend and the verbal problem tasks. From 168 first-grade students who received a…

To investigate what goals of mathematics education for prospective elementary teachers are important, a pool of 265 test items were constructed and presented to 50 persons in the fields of mathematics and mathematics education. They were asked to respond to the importance of each item, as a unit of content, relative to their perceptions of what is…

This study was concerned with the verification of a learning hierarchy for the mathematical task of adding fractions, when group learning procedures involving teacher-student interaction were used. Through a task analysis procedure a hierarchy of 13 subordinate skills was hypothesized, behavioral objectives were specified, and a curriculum…

This study determines the effects of tactile communication in sport on changes in interpersonal relationships between black and white children. The experimental design consisted of three treatment groups each emphasizing tactile, cooperative, or individual experiences in physical education. The control group participated in tactile, cooperative,…

Reported is a study to determine the feasibility of teaching selected concepts related to the particle nature of matter to students in grades 2-6. The lessons developed for this study did not require a high student reading ability, did not require more than one-half hour of time, included the use of analogous mechanical models whenever possible,…

Investigated was the lateral asymmetry in children's hemispheric brain functioning during performance of Piagetian and curriculum related tasks. Six subproblems were investigated. Eighteen right-handed children, ages six to eight years old, were given electroencephalograms while performing a battery of tasks: Piagetian conservation tasks,…

This Action Research Project Report was conducted at one elementary school and two different high schools from August 20, 2007 to December 14, 2007. The purpose of this research was to decrease student off-task behavior in the classroom. There were four teacher researchers and 94 students at the beginning of the research, but during the action…

Varied academic ability is a problem across the country and is the focus of this action research project report. The four teacher researchers were searching for way to reach all learners with their mathematics instruction. The purpose of the research was to increase mathematical performance in a varied ability math classroom. To address varied…

This action research project designed and implemented a program for the instruction of cooperative learning and conflict resolution strategies in order to increase social competencies. The targeted population consisted of two multi-age, grade 2/3 classrooms and one fifth grade classroom in a stable middle class community in a large midwestern…

The purpose of this study was to investigate the relationship between 64 six- and seven-year-old children's perception of the reality of television and the Piagetian construct of cognitive development. The children were asked to view two television episodes (a highly similar, closely matched pair from the television series "Star Trek")…

Two problems were considered in this study: (1) to determine if there were combinations of variables in the population studied that were predictive of science-teaching practices and/or teacher satisfaction with teaching science; and (2) to determine if models could be developed to explain possible directional effects of selected teacher variables…

Two methods of instructing preservice elementary teachers in the metric system are compared in this study. In the laboratory method 28 subjects handled equipment and participated in measurement and estimation activities. The 29 subjects in the lecture demonstration group met as a class and individually recorded results of the same activities…

One component of Pennsylvania's Science for the Seventies Project, an experimental science curriculum for elementary schools which makes extensive use of instructional television, was an evaluation which compared the effectiveness of the project to that of existing instructional programs. As part of the evaluation, a model was developed and…

This study was designed to determine the effectiveness of an additional basic language-development program on the science academic achievement of low-achieving kindergarten pupils. From responses on a performance test, an experimental and a control group were formed. Both groups received instruction in science. The experimental group also received…