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Chloé Tolmatcheff; René Veenstra; Isabelle Roskam; Benoit Galand – Prevention Science, 2024
This study examined the relation between both implementation fidelity and quality and the outcomes of two different anti-bullying interventions targeting distinct processes involved in bullying: moral disengagement and social norms. In total, 34 French-speaking Belgian teachers from six elementary schools were trained to deliver either the moral…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Elementary School Teachers, Grade 4, Grade 5
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Kumps, Audrey; Temperman, Gaetan; De Lievre, Bruno – Turkish Online Journal of Educational Technology - TOJET, 2022
In French-speaking Belgium, one of the new tasks of the teacher will be to develop the informational skills of learners. Therefore, the main purpose of this research is to identify the variables that affect the performance of online information retrieval so that teachers can plan appropriate teaching activities. The statistical Classification and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Online Searching, Search Strategies, Information Retrieval
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Degrande, Tine; Verschaffel, Lieven; Van Dooren, Wim – Mathematical Thinking and Learning: An International Journal, 2017
In contrast to previous studies on Spontaneous Focusing on Quantitative Relations (SFOR), the present study investigated not only the "extent" to which children focus on (multiplicative) quantitative relations, but also the "nature" of children's quantitative focus (i.e., the types of quantitative relations that children focus…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Grade 2, Grade 4, Grade 6
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Degrande, Tine; Verschaffel, Lieven; Van Dooren, Wim – North American Chapter of the International Group for the Psychology of Mathematics Education, 2014
Both additive and proportional reasoning are types of quantitative analogical (QA) reasoning. We investigated the development and nature of primary school children's QA reasoning by offering two missing-value word problems to 3rd to 6th graders. In one problem, ratios between given numbers were integer, in the other ratios were non-integer. These…
Descriptors: Word Problems (Mathematics), Logical Thinking, Mathematical Logic, Elementary School Students
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De Laet, Steven; Colpin, Hilde; Vervoort, Eleonora; Doumen, Sarah; Van Leeuwen, Karla; Goossens, Luc; Verschueren, Karine – Developmental Psychology, 2015
The present longitudinal study examined how relationships with teachers and peers jointly shape the development of children's behavioral engagement in late elementary school. A sample of 586 children (46% boys; M[subscript age] = 9.26 years at Wave 1) was followed throughout Grades 4, 5, and 6. A multidimensional approach was adopted,…
Descriptors: Child Behavior, Child Development, Elementary School Students, Grade 4
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Corthals, Paul – International Journal of Language & Communication Disorders, 2010
Background: The metalinguistic ability to cope with homonyms, that is, words having multiple unrelated meanings, emerges rather late in the course child language development. It is associated with specific neural activity and related to academic achievement and second language learning. This study is about homonyms that are at the same time…
Descriptors: Preadolescents, Metalinguistics, Elementary School Students, Nouns
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De Maeyer, Sven; Rymenans, Rita; Van Petegem, Peter; van den Bergh, Huub; Rijlaarsdam, Gert – School Effectiveness and School Improvement, 2007
School effectiveness research often uses multilevel models in which only direct effects of characteristics of schools on pupil achievement are modelled. Recently, more attention is given to conceptual models that assume indirect and antecedent effects. In this paper, we elaborate on these models and show that the findings from school effectiveness…
Descriptors: Grade 4, Grade 6, Instructional Leadership, School Effectiveness