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Direct linkHallam, Susan – FORUM: for promoting 3-19 comprehensive education, 2012
There has been research on grouping pupils by ability for most of the twentieth century since Whipple carried out a study of the effects of special class placement on a group of high aptitude 5th and 6th graders in the USA in 1919. Since then hundreds of studies have been undertaken and there have been many literature reviews and syntheses of…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Ability Grouping, Grade 6, Foreign Countries
Peer reviewedHoldich, C. E.; Holdich, R. G.; Chung, P. W. H. – Computers & Education, 2002
Discusses the use of computer-generated text analysis to provide diagnostic information regarding students' writing. Describes a study of 12 stories written by grade 6 students in the United Kingdom that used computer-generated text analysis to determine whether the writing met the criteria for National Curriculum levels of attainment for the…
Descriptors: British National Curriculum, Computer Uses in Education, Elementary Education, Foreign Countries
Peer reviewedRenold, Emma – Gender and Education, 2000
Uses data from an ethnographic exploration into children's gender and sexual identities during sixth grade to examine how dominant notions of heterosexuality underscore much of children's identity work and peer relationships, illustrating how boys and girls are subject to pressures of compulsory heterosexuality. Discusses the implications of…
Descriptors: Elementary Education, Elementary School Students, Females, Femininity
Peer reviewedKruger, Colin; Summers, Mike – Research in Science and Technological Education, 2000
Studies 34 elementary school children's understanding of five aspects of energy waste and the ways in which these conceptions develop following teaching. Concludes that the children had good prior awareness of some behaviors that save energy, but their reasons for thinking this were based largely on everyday intuitive ideas that involved…
Descriptors: Concept Formation, Efficiency, Electricity, Elementary Education
Download full textCarmo, Mafalda, Ed. – Online Submission, 2017
This book contains a compilation of papers presented at the International Conference on Education and New Developments (END 2017), organized by the World Institute for Advanced Research and Science (W.I.A.R.S.). Education, in our contemporary world, is a right since we are born. Every experience has a formative effect on the constitution of the…
Descriptors: Educational Quality, Models, Vocational Education, Outcomes of Education
