This paper describes the important role of community organization in providing reinforcing factors necessary to enable students to adopt dietary behavior changes recommended in a school health education program for cardiovascular health. The subjects were 55 urban, black, sixth grade students. The pilot program was of two years duration.…

An investigation examined third- and sixth-grade students' proficiency in comprehending anaphoric relations in stories and whether grade level affected comprehension of anaphora. Both grade levels were somewhat proficient and sixth-grade students achieved significantly higher comprehension than did third-graders. (Author/MT)

Children, ages 7-8 and 11-12, were asked to represent pairs of nouns in memory as a single interactive image, as two separate images, or by a control procedure; and then were tested either by cued or noncued recall. Results were interpreted as supporting an imagery-organization hypothesis. (Author/SB)

This paper compared the Math ISTEP scores of third graders before the implementation of the Saxon Math program to the math ISTEP scores of the same group of students in sixth grade after implementation. Ex post factor research was used to compare data from the comparison year to the treatment year. Data collected was in the form of ISTEP math…

This textbook is part of a series that aims to develop all the mathematical power needed by the average person in the accurate control of his affairs. The purpose has been to teach first the most important topics of arithmetic and last those least frequently used. In addition to giving the child all the fundamental skills of calculation, room has…

An experience in a sixth-grade classroom is described in which microcomputer activities were integrated into regular instruction. The plan and the findings from achievement and attitude scales are discussed. (MNS)

Presents charts depicting responses of rural sixth grade students to factual and opinion questions about political awareness. Concludes that students have limited knowledge and awareness of the various levels of government and of matters related to government. (Author/KC)

Students grouped as good or poor readers on the basis of a vocabulary test were asked to read a story from a certain perspective or with instructions to read carefully to demonstrate that the orientation readers take while reading a passage influences the specific information that will be retained from that passage. (HOD)

A Seattle sixth grader's confusion about her teacher's expectations led to the creation of a new evaluation technique that lets students set the standards and grade themselves. After explaining what was necessary to achieve a "C" on certain projects, the teacher allowed students to decide what must be accomplished to receive a higher…

The Cognition and Technology Group at Vanderbilt addresses concerns related to constructivism and instructional design that were raised in an earlier issue. Relationship of ecological psychology and constructivist theory is described, constraints on constructed knowledge are discussed, and the complexity of the Jasper series of math problems that…

Finds that ecological and moralistic attitudes toward the environment correlate with talking about the environment at home, watching nature films, and reading about the environment. (Author/CCM)

Presents one theoretical perspective on balanced literacy instruction and two iterations of it in practice: one in a second-grade classroom and another in a sixth-grade classroom. Concludes that balanced reading instruction is much more complex than merely embedding the teaching of skills and strategies within the context of literature. (SC)

Reports on a study designed to construct an understanding of two grade 6 students' proportional reasoning schemes. Finds that two mental operations, unitizing and iterating, play an important role in students' use of multiplicative thinking in proportion tasks. (Author/MM)

This study explored the validation of a criterion or reference score for determining the adequacy of any individual's cloze score. The hypothesis tested in this research was that a cloze preformance of 40 percent on materials ranging in difficulty from grades 4 to 8 will predict a 75 percent criterion level of reading comprehension based on a…

Teachers in three California public schools were educated in the use of values clarification. Their experimental class groups were matched with other sixth-grade groups in the same schools. The teachers used selected value clarifying strategies for three months in their regular classes, adapting them as necessary to the health education content…