The Technology Enhanced Elementary and Middle School Science II project (TEEMSS), funded by the National Science Foundation, produced 15 inquiry-based instructional science units for teaching in grades 3-8. Each unit uses computers and probeware to support students' investigations of real-world phenomena using probes (e.g., for temperature or…

Developmental changes leading to mature judgments of the relative effectiveness of verbal memory strategies were examined in 60 subjects (20 each from second-, fourth-, and sixth-grade classrooms). Subjects viewed videotapes of a female child who was given the task of remembering a set of categorizable pictures. Demonstrations of four memory…

A study examined the role of talk in the writing act. The study utilized participant observational techniques in an attempt to discover how talk was implicated in all stages of writing. Subjects were three fourth, fifth, and/or sixth grade informants, with one student emerging as the key informant in the study. Results indicated that talk appeared…

Book reports are made more enjoyable by allowing the students to present the story in various creative ways. (JH)

Study supported in part by NSF Grant GS-1032 and National Institute of Child Health and Human Development Grant RO-1-HD03258.

A SEQUENTIAL MATHEMATICS PROGRAM BEGINNING WITH THE BASIC FUNDAMENTALS ON THE FOURTH GRADE LEVEL IS PRESENTED. INCLUDED ARE AN UNDERSTANDING OF OUR NUMBER SYSTEM, AND THE BASIC OPERATIONS OF WORKING WITH WHOLE NUMBERS--ADDITION, SUBTRACTION, MULTIPLICATION, AND DIVISION. COMMON FRACTIONS ARE TAUGHT IN THE FIFTH, SIXTH, AND SEVENTH GRADES. A…

THE RELATIONSHIP OF DEWEY'S EXPERIMENTALISM TO CREATIVITY, SCHOOL ATTITUDE, AND SOCIOMETRIC STATUS WAS STUDIED. DURING PHASE ONE, FOURTH-SIXTH GRADE TEACHERS (141) WERE ADMINISTERED THE EXPERIMENTALISM SCALE. A TRUNCATION WAS APPLIED AT EACH END OF THE TEACHERS' SCORE CONTINUUM ON THE BASIS OF A T-TEST. DURING PHASE TWO, PUPILS TAUGHT BY THE…

THE INCREASED USE OF PROGRAMED MATERIALS CREATE A NEED TO ESTABLISH PROCEDURES FOR DETERMINING THE READING DIFFICULTY OF THE MATERIALS BEFORE EXTENSIVE FIELD TESTING BEGINS. AN EXPERIMENT WAS CARRIED OUT WITH 189 FOURTH GRADE, 271 FIFTH GRADE, AND 140 SIXTH GRADE STUDENTS. THE POPULATION OF MATERIALS FOR THIS STUDY CONSISTED OF NINE FOURTH GRADE…

Six tests were constructed, four on a pictorial level and two on a symbolic level, to measure the performance of fourth-, fifth-, and sixth-grade children, in three different ability groups, on problems concerning ratios or fractions. Two variables were of interest in the four tests on a pictorial level: (a) "equal" ratio situations vs.…

The purpose of this experiment was to replicate and extend previous work which showed substantial differences between good readers (GR) and poor readers (PR) in the time taken to encode single words. The technique used was based on the memory-scanning and visual-scanning procedure first used by Sternberg. The subjects for the study consisted of 30…

The Anchor Test Study provides a method for translating a pupil's score on any one of eight widely used standardized reading tests for Grades 4, 5, and 6 to a corresponding score on any of the other seven tests, as well as furnishing new nationally representative norms for each of the eight tests. In addition, the Study presents new estimates of…

The Anchor Test Study provides a method for translating a pupil's score on any one of eight widely used standardized reading tests for Grades 4, 5, and 6 to a corresponding score on any of the other seven tests, as well as furnishing new nationally representative norms for each of the eight tests. In addition, the Study presents new estimates of…

A study was conducted to determine how well gifted students in grades 4-6 should be reading and whether traditional reading expectancy formulas are useful in predicting reading achievement of gifted students in the upper elementary grades. The total reading scores on the Comprehensive Test of Basic Skills (Form Q2) for 624 fourth and sixth graders…

AN INVESTIGATION WAS MADE TO DETERMINE WHETHER STUDENTS WHO RECEIVED SPECIFIC ASSISTANCE WITH READING SKILLS IN ARITHMETIC SHOWED SUPERIOR ACHIEVEMENT IN THEIR READING AND ARITHMETIC WHEN COMPARED WITH A SIMILAR GROUP WHO DID NOT RECEIVE SUCH ASSISTANCE. FIFTEEN SCHOOLS WERE SELECTED FROM APPROXIMATELY 70 MEMBER SCHOOL DISTRICTS OF THE…

Presents a lesson plan which uses "Water," by Iri and Toshi Maruki, to provide students in grades 4-6 with an approach to artwork which deals with devastating current events. Students explore artistic collaboration, Japanese beliefs, contemporary conflicts, and contradictory meanings in images. Includes background information,…