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Georgescu, Dakmara; Stefanescu, Doina-Olga; Nazdravan, Mihai; Chiritescu, Dorina; Lacatus, Maria-Liana – 1996
This guide begins by stating that the curricular items recommended for civic education classes meet the provisions of Romania's Education Law, articles 3 and 4, and particularly, the educational ideal and the ultimate goals of education. Noting that the process of socialization should start early in life, the guide states that the place of civic…
Descriptors: Citizenship Education, Civics, Class Activities, Curriculum Guides
Lloyd, David; Wallace, John – Studies in Science Education, 2004
In the last 30 years or so, science educators in the Western world have come to recognise the importance of the social and cultural context in which learning occurs (Cobern, 1993, 1994; Hodson, 1993; Leach & Scott, 2003) and have, through such movements as science, technology, society and the environment (Pedretti, 1997; Solomon, 1991; Solomon…
Descriptors: Cultural Context, Science Education, Science Curriculum, Foreign Countries
Keeves, John P.; Hungi, Njora; Afrassa, Tilahun – Studies in Educational Evaluation, 2005
This article traces the evolution of a quest for solving the problems involved in the analysis of multilevel data and the estimation of the value added effects of schools in influencing educational outcomes. The authors report the findings of two studies that followed several cohorts of students that were tested at two grade levels (Grade 3 and…
Descriptors: Program Effectiveness, Grade 5, Grade 3, Scaling
Marks, Helen M.; Lee, Valerie E. – 1989
A study compared the scores of Catholic and public school students at three different grade levels on educationally pertinent characteristics such as race, ability, level of parental education, amount of homework, and high school curricular track. Subjects, approximately 2,000 Catholic school students and 30,000 public school students in grades 3,…
Descriptors: Catholic Schools, Comparative Analysis, Elementary Secondary Education, Grade 11
An Investigation of Ethnic Group Differences in Testwiseness at the Third, Fifth, and Seventh Grade.
Powers, Stephen; Sabers, Darrell – 1981
A test measuring testwiseness was administered to 811 pupils in grades 3, 5, and 7 in the Tucson Unified School District. The pupils represented four ethnic groups: American Indian, Anglo, Black, and Hispanic. By controlling for reading ability using scores on a standardized reading test, the California Achievement Tests (CAT) or Comprehensive…
Descriptors: American Indians, Anglo Americans, Blacks, Elementary Education
Drier Educational Systems, Inc., Highland Park, NJ. – 1979
The reading comprehension tests, one for nine-year-olds usually in grade 3 and one for thirteen-year-olds usually in grade 7, were developed from released items on the National Assessment of Educational Progress. The tests were constructed to assess student achievement against a national norm, by comparing individual student scores to the national…
Descriptors: Answer Keys, Answer Sheets, Educational Testing, Elementary Education

Jacobson, Julie; Thrope, Lynne; Fisher, Douglas; Lapp, Diane; Frey, Nancy; Flood, James – Journal of Adolescent & Adult Literacy, 2001
Describes the implementation and evaluation of a cross-age tutoring program in which 21 struggling seventh-grade readers tutored third-graders, based on strategies and preparation they learned in their own Strategic Reading class. Notes that reading skills and enjoyment of these seventh-grade students were significantly expanded. Discusses factors…
Descriptors: Course Descriptions, Cross Age Teaching, Grade 3, Grade 7

Arabsolghar, Fatemeh; Elkins, John – Journal of Research in Reading, 2001
Examines the ways in which teachers expected their students to use, or to know how to use, certain reading skills. Reveals a significant interaction between ability and reading component in an analysis of variance (grade x ability x component). Suggests that teachers' expectations about students' reading skills are related strongly to the ability…
Descriptors: Academic Ability, Elementary Education, Grade 3, Grade 5

Byrne, Barbara M.; Gavin, Darlene A. Worth – Journal of Educational Psychology, 1996
Data from 877 3rd, 7th, and 11th graders substantiated the multidimensionality of academic self-concept, as based on the Shavelson model, but yielded no support for increasing differentiation across age. Data also determined minor deterioration of hierarchical structure for early and late adolescents but no progressive pattern of weakening across…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Early Adolescents, Elementary School Students, Elementary Secondary Education
Moritz, Jonathan – Mathematics Education Research Journal, 2003
Coordinate graphs of time-series data have been significant in the history of statistical graphing and in recent school mathematics curricula. A survey task to construct a graph to represent data about temperature change over time was administered to 133 students in Grades 3, 5, 7, and 9. Four response levels described the degree to which students…
Descriptors: Grade 3, Student Development, Graphs, Grade 5
Rief, Sandra F.; Heimburge, Julie A. – Jossey-Bass, An Imprint of Wiley, 2007
This book offers teachers a handbook for teaching literacy to diverse students in grades 3-8. The balanced literacy method combines the best practices of phonics and other skill-based language instruction with the holistic, literature-based approach in order to help teach reading, writing, and speaking in a clear and approachable format. This…
Descriptors: Writing Difficulties, Units of Study, Literacy, Student Diversity
Missouri State Dept. of Elementary and Secondary Education, Jefferson City. Div. of Instruction. – 1999
This document includes the left-hand column ("What All Students Should Know") and the center column ("What All Students Should Be Able To Do") from "Missouri's Framework for Curriculum Development in Communication Arts K-12." Next to these two columns has been added a column which includes assessment notes for those…
Descriptors: Curriculum Development, Elementary Secondary Education, Grade 11, Grade 3

Carpenter, Thomas P.; And Others – Arithmetic Teacher, 1988
This third article on National Assessment results discusses general achievement trends and changes in performance over time. Performance scales, national trends, current achievement, learning concepts and skills, problem solving, minorities, and gender are considered. (MNS)
Descriptors: Educational Assessment, Educational Research, Educational Trends, Elementary Secondary Education
A Title I Teacher's Beliefs, Decision-Making, and Instruction at the Third and Seventh Grade Levels.

Mitchell Davis, Mimi; Wilson, Elizabeth K. – Reading Research and Instruction, 1999
Compares previous research findings that examine the consistency between a Title I teacher's beliefs about reading and her instructional practices at the third- and seventh-grade levels. Supports (1) the need for teacher improvement programs; (2) the need to coordinate Title I instruction with regular classroom instruction; and (3) the importance…
Descriptors: Decision Making, Elementary Education, Grade 3, Grade 7

Ladd, Helen F. – Economics of Education Review, 1999
Uses a panel dataset for schools in large Texas cities to compare student performance gains in Dallas, site of a school-based incentive program, with those in four other cities. Results show positive, relatively large effects for Hispanic and white seventh graders, but not for black students or third graders. (MLH)
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Accountability, Blacks, Change Strategies