Nene College (United Kingdom) has developed a residential enrichment program for gifted ten- and eleven-year-olds in Northamptonshire County. The paper outlines the logistics of program implementation, including determining academic and social content and the selection of children and teaching staff. (DB)

Seventy-two 11-year-old students were tested on 32 dictated words containing two levels of both visual and phonemic complexity. Students were grouped within sexes on their extraversion scores on the Junior Eysenck Personality Inventory and quotients on the Raven's Matrices. Spelling performance was found to interact significantly with level of…

Details project providing teacher inservice training and curriculum development for Saskatoon Catholic schools' middle years (ages 10-15) program. Outlines phases which include establishing the model; providing inservice professional development for five school development teams; implementing, experimenting, and developing at classroom/school…

Speed of information processing was examined in relation to fluid and crystallized intelligence in sixth graders. Reaction time parameters (except slope) were negatively correlated with scores on intelligence tasks. Partial correlations failed to support any causal relationship between fluid and crystallized intelligence in either direction.…

This study was undertaken to understand a motivation model in the context of the Korean elementary school mathematics class. The sample consisted of 178 fourth graders (boys=95; girls=83) from 2 Korean elementary schools. This study showed that a goal mediational model could be modified and successfully applied to the context of the Korean…

This paper reports on a visit to an interactive science center by a class of 10-year-old children planned and implemented by a teacher identified as exemplary by the science center staff. The visit was planned to be an integral part of the science program for the term, extending the range and type of science activities which were a feature of the…

A goal mediational model to conceptualize the effects of students' motivational beliefs on their learning strategies was modified with the three goal orientations: task, performance-approach, and performance-avoidance goals. Questionnaires were administered to 161 Korean fifth graders (boys = 88; girls = 73) in an elementary school math class.…

Two studies addressed the relationship between elementary school students' knowledge of specific words and their comprehension of passages involving those words. In the first study, 39 students in grades 5 and 6 read 4 passages, answered comprehension questions, and defined words that were included in the questions. Most of the words in the…

This study explored the cultural influences on children's self-reported environmental actions, perceptions, and understandings; investigated the relationships among the behavioral, affective, cognitive, and demographic variables; and developed models of children's responsible environmental behavior (Huang, 2001). The cross-cultural comparison…

Analyzed patterns of participation and discourse mediated by Virtual Web School (VWS), an Internet-based asynchronous bulletin board system used by 23 fifth graders in Finland. Findings show high density of articipation, but the need for improvement in the quality of student discussion on VWS. (SLD)

A study of fifth and sixth grade public school students in Israel suggests that grades and other norm-referenced methods are less effective than task-involving evaluation methods in enhancing student performance, interest, and motivation. This article consists of two commentaries on the findings, with suggestions for implementing task-involving…

Studies error detection by Swedish children. Finds that the sixth-grade children were better at the task, that errors were easiest to detect while listening, that errors were easiest to detect from paper copy, but that fourth graders detected more errors when reading from the moving window. (RS)

Suggests that not everything in education has to be evaluated in terms of cognitive outcome measures. Describes a computer-mediated communication project that involved sixth-grade students in a private school in Montreal and slightly older students in a mainly Inuit town in the far northern part of Quebec. Discusses the actual benefits of the…

Focuses on the understanding of British children (N=189) of geologic time as they participate in related activities. Indicates that 10- and 11-year-old children lack a clear chronology of geologic events. Contains 22 references. (DDR)

A resource designed to introduce design and technology to refugee students for whom English is an additional language uses graphics to help explain tasks. As a standalone resource, it can be used at any time during the year and it can be varied to suit students' abilities. (SK)