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Kuzle, Ana – Center for Educational Policy Studies Journal, 2023
Mathematics instruction in primary school has been influenced by many policy changes and empirical findings in the previous two decades. Geometry lessons, in particular, were re-evaluated due to a paradigm change and, consequently, were attributed a new meaning within the mathematics curriculum worldwide. The present paper focuses on this paradigm…
Descriptors: Mathematics Instruction, Geometry, Elementary School Mathematics, Elementary Education
Ashrafi, Ali – Journal of Educational Psychology - Propositos y Representaciones, 2021
Primary education levels are called primary education, compulsory education, and public education. Nowadays, new research has shown that primary education plays an important role in the reduction of poverty and the realization of economic and social development programs. Therefore, the necessity of this research is to study the evolution of…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Educational Development, Elementary Education, Compulsory Education
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Pflaumer, Nadine; Knorr, Nancy; Berkling, Kay – British Journal of Educational Technology, 2021
The study presented here was aimed at understanding how teachers go about appropriating technology from the iRead EU Horizon 2020 Project into the classroom. iRead provides an adaptive personalised literacy game called Navigo that is deployed in tablets and intended for regular usage in the elementary school classroom. In our case, the game was…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Literacy Education, Educational Games, Elementary Education
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Lederman, Judith; Lederman, Norman; Bartels, Selina; Jimenez, Juan; Akubo, Mark; Aly, Shereen; Bao, Chengcheng; Blanquet, Estelle; Blonder, Ron; Bologna Soares de Andrade, Mariana; Buntting, Catherine; Cakir, Mustafa; EL-Deghaidy, Heba; ElZorkani, Ahmed; Gaigher, Estelle; Guo, Shuchen; Hakanen, Arvi; Hamed Al-Lal, Soraya; Han-Tosunoglu, Cigdem; Hattingh, Annemarie; Hume, Anne; Irez, Serhat; Kay, Gillian; Kivilcan Dogan, Ozgur; Kremer, Kerstin; Kuo, Pi-Chu; Lavonen, Jari; Lin, Shu-Fen; Liu, Cheng; Liu, Enshan; Liu, Shiang-Yao; Lv, Bin; Mamlok-Naaman, Rachel; McDonald, Christine; Neumann, Irene; Pan, Yaozhen; Picholle, Eric; Rivero García, Ana; Rundgren, Carl-Johan; Santibáñez-Gómez, David; Saunders, Kathy; Schwartz, Renee; Voitle, Frauke; von Gyllenpalm, Jakob; Wei, Fangbing; Wishart, Jocelyn; Wu, Zhifeng; Xiao, Huang; Yalaki, Yalcin; Zhou, Qiaoxue – Journal of Research in Science Teaching, 2019
Although understandings of scientific inquiry (as opposed to conducting inquiry) are included in science education reform documents around the world, little is known about what students have learned about inquiry during their elementary school years. This is partially due to the lack of any assessment instrument to measure understandings about…
Descriptors: Inquiry, Middle School Students, Elementary Education, Foreign Countries
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Tröbst, Steffen; Kleickmann, Thilo; Heinze, Aiso; Bernholt, Andrea; Rink, Roland; Kunter, Mareike – Journal of Educational Psychology, 2018
Pedagogical content knowledge forms the core of teachers' professional knowledge; it refers to knowledge about making subject matter accessible to students. Thus, the formation of pedagogical content knowledge constitutes a crucial issue for educational research and practice. We investigated the contributions of content knowledge and pedagogical…
Descriptors: Preservice Teachers, Elementary Education, Pedagogical Content Knowledge, Fractions
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Cremin, Teresa; Glauert, Esme; Craft, Anna; Compton, Ashley; Stylianidou, Fani – Education 3-13, 2015
In the light of the European Union's interest in creativity and innovation, this paper, drawing on data from the EU project Creative Little Scientists (2011-2014), explores the teaching and learning of science and creativity in Early Years education. The project's conceptual framework, developed from detailed analysis of relevant literatures,…
Descriptors: Science Instruction, Inquiry, Creative Teaching, Creativity
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Rasinen, Aki; Virtanen, Sonja; Endepohls-Ulpe, Martina; Ikonen, Pasi; Ebach, Judith; Stahl-von Zabern, Janine – International Journal of Technology and Design Education, 2009
Even if the results of international student assessment studies such as PISA or TIMSS show that girls have been catching up in mathematics and natural sciences, there are still remarkable gender differences in the number of males and females studying and working in the technological fields after basic education. Technology is still a…
Descriptors: Females, Early Childhood Education, Motivation, Foreign Countries
Wrigley, Terry, Ed.; Thomson, Pat, Ed.; Lingard, Robert, Ed. – Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2011
"Changing Schools" places educational and social aims at the centre of a discussion of educational change. It draws on 14 case studies to explore school change which is oriented towards social justice and democracy. In an age of global mobility, economic polarization and unprecedented environmental and cultural challenges, the education…
Descriptors: Social Justice, Curriculum Development, Human Capital, Laboratory Schools
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Bullynck, Maarten – Paedagogica Historica: International Journal of the History of Education, 2008
With the introduction of arithmetic as a compulsory part of the elementary school curriculum in late eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century Germany, textbooks and pedagogical methods were wanted. Relying on the traditions of the Rechenbucher and informed by the demand for method found in Wolffian style advanced textbooks, the first generation of…
Descriptors: Elementary School Curriculum, Educational History, Textbooks, Elementary Education
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Sampson, Demetrios G., Ed.; Ifenthaler, Dirk, Ed.; Isaías, Pedro, Ed. – International Association for Development of the Information Society, 2021
These proceedings contain the papers of the 18th International Conference on Cognition and Exploratory Learning in the Digital Age (CELDA 2021), held virtually, due to an exceptional situation caused by the COVID-19 pandemic, from October 13-15, 2021, and organized by the International Association for Development of the Information Society…
Descriptors: Computer Simulation, Open Educational Resources, Telecommunications, Handheld Devices
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Staub, Fritz C.; Stern, Elsbeth – Journal of Educational Psychology, 2002
In a longitudinal study of 496 students in 27 self-contained German elementary school classrooms, performance in mathematical word problems and arithmetic tasks was measured at the end of Grades 2 and 3. Findings show that a cognitive constructivist orientation was associated with larger achievement gains in mathematical word problems. (Author)
Descriptors: Classroom Techniques, Elementary Education, Elementary School Mathematics, Elementary School Students
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Walberg, Herbert J.; And Others – British Educational Research Journal, 1986
Reports a re-analysis of mathematics achievement data on 28,274 elementary students in twelve countries. Results corroborate recent studies of productive factors in academic learning. Among directly alterable variables, the amount and quality of instruction, including homework, most strongly influence achievement. (Author/JDH)
Descriptors: Comparative Education, Elementary Education, Elementary School Mathematics, Mathematics Achievement
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Gohlich, Michael; Wagner-Willi, Monika – Pedagogy, Culture & Society, 2001
Examined children's rituals during transitions from breaks to lessons, using video-ethnography of an elementary school's everyday life, noting similarities and differences in students' cultural performances, distinguishing patterns of ritualization relating collective and individual territories, and explaining that transitioning from child to…
Descriptors: Children, Elementary Education, Elementary School Students, Foreign Countries
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Eid, Michael; Hoffman, Lore – Journal of Educational and Behavioral Statistics, 1998
An extension of the graded-response model of F. Samejima (1969) is presented for the measurement of variability and change. The model is illustrated with a longitudinal study of student interest in radioactivity conducted with about 1,200 German students in elementary school when the study began. (SLD)
Descriptors: Change, Elementary Education, Elementary School Students, Foreign Countries
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Stern, Elsbeth – Contemporary Educational Psychology, 1992
Why children under 10 years do not use their mathematics knowledge to build a shortcut strategy to solve inversion problems was studied with 88 elementary school students in Munich (Germany). Most could use the shortcut but did so only when it did not compete with a more familiar strategy. (SLD)
Descriptors: Elementary Education, Elementary School Students, Foreign Countries, Knowledge Level
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