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Methods of Improving Active Listening Skills with Relation to Following Directions.

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Enger, Tracy; Russell, Nancy; Setzer, Jill; Walkanoff, Jeanette – 1998

A program was developed for improving listening skills so as not to interfere with the cognitive processing of directions. The targeted population consisted of third, fourth, fifth, and eighth grade students in a growing middle class community located in the Midwest United States. Problems of decreased listening ability were documented through…

Descriptors: Action Research, Cognitive Processes, Elementary Education, Grade 3

Improving Academic Success by Increasing Student Engagement in the Learning Task.

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Foster, William; Gaa, Nancy; Nowicki, Jan; Ross, Venessa – 1997

This action research project implemented and evaluated an intervention for increasing student engagement in learning to improve academic success. The targeted population consisted of students in four separate schools: pre-kindergarten and eighth graders in a large metropolitan area and fifth and eighth graders in a rural community. The lack of…

Descriptors: Behavior Change, Change Strategies, Class Activities, Cooperative Learning

Teacher to Teacher Talk: Student Performance on MSPAP.

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Maryland State Dept. of Education, Baltimore. Maryland School Performance, Product, and Service Development Office. – 1993

This document offers many of the insights and comments of Maryland elementary school teachers who scored the 1992 Maryland School Performance Assessment Program (MSPAP) tests. The MSPAP covers reading, writing, social studies, mathematics, and science and is administered to students in grades 3, 5, and 8. The document contains the teachers' most…

Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Achievement Tests, Elementary Education, Elementary School Students

Teacher to Teacher Talk: Student Performance on MSPAP.

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Maryland State Dept. of Education, Baltimore. Maryland School Performance, Product, and Service Development Office. – 1993

This document offers many of the insights and comments of Maryland elementary school teachers who scored the 1993 Maryland School Performance Assessment Program (MSPAP) tests. The MSPAP covers reading, writing, social studies, mathematics, and science and is administered to Maryland students in grades 3, 5, and 8. Comments and observations are…

Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Achievement Tests, Elementary Education, Elementary School Students