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Does Academic and Social Self-Concept and Motivation Explain the Effect of Grading on Students' Achievement?
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Klapp, Alli – European Journal of Psychology of Education, 2018
The purpose of the study was to investigate if academic and social self-concept and motivation to improve in academic school subjects mediated the negative effect of summative assessment (grades) for low-ability students' achievement in compulsory school. In two previous studies, summative assessment (grading) was found to have a differentiating…
Descriptors: Academic Ability, Self Concept, Longitudinal Studies, Quasiexperimental Design
The Effects of Translanguaging on the Bi-Literate Inferencing Strategies of Fourth Grade Learners
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Mgijima, Vukile Desmond; Makalela, Leketi – Perspectives in Education, 2016
Previous research suggests that enhanced cognitive and metacognitive skills are achieved when translanguaging techniques are applied in a multilingual classroom. This paper presents findings on the effects of translanguaging techniques on teaching grade 4 learners how to apply relevant background knowledge when drawing inferences during reading.…
Descriptors: Code Switching (Language), African Languages, Quasiexperimental Design, Foreign Countries
Promoting a Functional Physical Self-Concept in Physical Education: Evaluation of a 10-Week Intervention
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Schmidt, Mirko; Valkanover, Stefan; Roebers, Claudia; Conzelmann, Achim – European Physical Education Review, 2013
Most physical education intervention studies on the positive effect of sports on self-concept development have attempted to "increase" schoolchildren's self-concept without taking the "veridicality" of the self-concept into account. The present study investigated whether a 10-week intervention in physical education would lead…
Descriptors: Self Concept, Human Body, Physical Education, Elementary School Students
The Immediate and Long Term Impact of a Summer Literacy Approach on Writing Performance and Self-Perception of Writing of Urban Housing Authority Children
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Barone, Toni-Ann – ProQuest LLC, 2012
In this quasi-experimental design study, I investigated the impact of a current summer literacy approach on writing performance and writer self-perception of urban Housing Authority children. In addition, current campers and former CampUs Scholarship recipients provided feedback about personal experiences as well as shared the potential impact of…
Descriptors: Summer Programs, Literacy, Writing (Composition), Writing Achievement
Effects of Peer Tutoring on Reading Self-Concept
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Flores, Marta; Duran, David – International Journal of Educational Psychology, 2013
This study investigates the development of the Reading Self-Concept and of the mechanisms underlying it, within a framework of a reading programme based on peer tutoring. The multiple methodological design adopted allowed for a quantitative approach which showed statistically significant changes in the Reading Self-Concept of those students who…
Descriptors: Peer Teaching, Tutoring, Reading Achievement, Self Concept
Activating Children's Thinking Skills (ACTS): The Effects of an Infusion Approach to Teaching Thinking in Primary Schools
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Dewey, Jessica; Bento, Janet – British Journal of Educational Psychology, 2009
Background: Recent interest in the teaching of thinking skills within education has led to an increase in thinking skills packages available to schools. However many of these are not based on scientific evaluation (DfEE, 1999). This paper endeavours to examine the effectiveness of one approach, that of infusion, to teaching thinking. Aims: To…
Descriptors: Thinking Skills, Teaching Methods, Primary Education, Elementary School Students
The Impact of School-Based Child Centered Play Therapy on Academic Achievement, Self-Concept, and Teacher-Child Relationship Stress
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Blanco, Pedro J. – ProQuest LLC, 2009
This study examined the effectiveness of child centered play therapy (CCPT) with academically at-risk 1st graders. In this quasi-experimental design, twenty-one 1st grade students were assigned to the experimental group and 20 students were assigned to the no treatment control group. The children in the experimental group received two 30 minute…
Descriptors: Experimental Groups, Control Groups, Quasiexperimental Design, Play