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Lucchetti, Stefania; Caccio, Lucia; De Beni, Rossana – Bulletin of the Council for Research in Music Education, 1997
Investigates the development of rhythmic perception in Italian primary school children and its correlation to other subjects. Demonstrates a significant improvement in fourth graders' ability to discriminate duration and rhythms and indicates very few correlations with other types of school learning. Believes that the results emphasize the special…
Descriptors: Ability Identification, Educational Research, Foreign Countries, Grade 4
Mason, Lucia – 1995
This study investigated fourth graders' (N=18) self-generated analogies and the effects of their collaborative reasoning and arguing over these analogies on individual understanding of three scientific phenomena concerning air pressure. The data were subjected to both a qualitative and quantitative analysis. The first showed that the children, on…
Descriptors: Analogy, Concept Formation, Cooperative Learning, Foreign Countries

Babic, Sherry; Clark, Nick; Harnew, Stacey; Kenaston, Sher; Lucas, Hazel; Rowson, Ann – Art Education, 2001
Presents a lesson plan for 4th and 5th grade students presenting four views of U.S. artistic responses to nature, society, and technological advances. States the goal is for students to analyze, compare, and contrast how artists define the United States. (DAJ)
Descriptors: Art Criticism, Art Education, Art Products, Artists

Zammuner, Vanda Lucia – European Journal of Psychology of Education, 1991
Presents an Italian study of children assigned to write two persuasive appeals for funds. Reports that improvement on the second request was related to request features demonstrated between the two assignments. Concludes that training did have some effect, but both control and experimental groups improved in their second performances. (DK)
Descriptors: Communication (Thought Transfer), Comparative Analysis, Discussion (Teaching Technique), Foreign Countries