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Schild, Gili – 1971
A sample of 524 Israeli school children in grades 4 through 8 was used to investigate the relationships of game-playing with school achievement, family background, and several psychological characteristics. Game playing was found not to be directly related to school achievement when abilities and attitudes were controlled. However, the playing of…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Academic Aptitude, Childrens Games, Educational Research
Hansen, Lee H.; Hesse, Karl D. – 1972
A criterion-referenced assessment of reading literacy conducted in the fall of 1971 in grades 4, 7, 10, and 12 of the Madison Public Schools is described. The study was designed to answer the question: Can Wisconsin students read (gain information from) the written materials they encounter in daily living? The procedures for identifying the…
Descriptors: Cloze Procedure, Content Area Reading, Criterion Referenced Tests, Grade 10
A Cross-Cultural Study of Environmental Influences and Mechanical Aptitude in Several Indian Groups.
Bowd, Alan D. – 1971
Mechanical aptitude is considered to be a composite of several abilities--general intelligence, spatial, mechanical knowledge and comprehension, and relevant manual dexterity and coordination. Abilities are conceived as if organized in a hierarchical model and are assumed to develop as overlearned and generalized response patterns to particular…
Descriptors: Ability, Academic Achievement, American Indian Culture, Comparative Analysis
North Carolina State Dept. of Public Instruction, Raleigh. Instructional Services. – 2001
This report provides a longitudinal, comprehensive compendium of student performance data in the area of writing for the 2000-2001 school year. The report was generated using aggregate student data from North Carolina public schools, including charter schools, and provides information regarding student performance at the state level at each of the…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Achievement Tests, Elementary Secondary Education, Grade 10

Clift, Renee T.; And Others – Journal of Experimental Education, 1990
Thirty-seven elementary and secondary school teachers were surveyed about their knowledge of task-specific study strategies, and 10 were interviewed to validate and extend the survey data. Teachers seldom reported providing students with metacognitive components of strategy instruction. Implications for teacher instruction in study strategies are…
Descriptors: Elementary School Teachers, Elementary Secondary Education, Grade 1, Grade 11

Ediger, Marlow – 1983
During the 1979-1980 school year, 23 Old Order Amish pupils in the Pleasant Hill School near Bloomfield, Iowa, took the Iowa Test of Basic Skills. On the language arts subtest, five of six third grade students ranked above 50% in capitalization, four ranked above 50% in spelling and punctuation, and three ranked above 50% in usage. Four third…
Descriptors: Achievement Rating, Amish, Capitalization (Alphabetic), Elementary Education
Stennett, R. G. – 1985
This study represents a further attempt to establish the long-term predictive validity of teachers' grade 1 early identification (EID) ratings by relating them to students' educational status and performance on standardized tests of ability and achievement in grade 7. (EID ratings consist of a simple scale that ranks a student's preparedness for…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Early Identification, Elementary Education, Elementary School Students
Michigan State Dept. of Education, Lansing. – 1970
In 1969-70 the Michigan Assessment Program gathered data from 320,000 students in approximately 4,000 schools in over 600 school districts across the state. The assessment battery included measures, at the fourth and seventh grade levels, of the following: socioeconomic status, attitude toward school, percentage of teachers with a master's degree,…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Accountability, Comparative Analysis, Financial Support
Kentucky State Dept. of Education, Frankfort. – 2000
This booklet answers parents' questions about the following: Kentucky's Writing Portfolio program, the process which leads to effective writing, and the parent's role in the development of children's writing skills. The first section discusses the stages of the writing process (prewriting, drafting, revising, editing, and publishing) and how…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Grade 12, Grade 4, Grade 7
Lange, Mary; McCarty, Camille; Norman, Linda; Upchurch, Noelle – 1999
This study describes an approach for enhancing reading strategies through the use of technology for improving reading comprehension and vocabulary. The targeted population consisted of middle school students in a growing low to middle class community, located in central Illinois. The problem of declining reading scores was evidenced in data…
Descriptors: Action Research, Computer Software, Educational Technology, Grade 4

Backe-Hansen, Elisabeth; Ogden, Terje – Childhood: A Global Journal of Child Research, 1996
Discusses sex differences as they appear from a resource-oriented as opposed to a problem-oriented perspective. A study examined a sample of 10- and 13-year olds, collecting data from the children, their parents, and teachers in questionnaire form. Results portrayed girls as competence "winners," while boys became more visible than girls…
Descriptors: Behavior Problems, Child Behavior, Elementary Education, Elementary School Students
Burnham, Brian – 1983
Research was conducted to investigate the in-school use of results of the Canadian Tests of Basic Skills reading and mathematics batteries administered in the elementary schools of the York Region Board of Education (YRBE). Interviews were conducted with school administrators, guidance counsellors, and teachers. Test uses included reporting…
Descriptors: Administrators, Basic Skills, Elementary Education, Elementary School Teachers
York Region Board of Education, Aurora (Ontario). – 1986
A study of one grade cohort of students taught in a Chicago Mastery Learning Reading (CMLR) Program was extended to two additional cohorts, one older and one younger than the original group but who were taught using the same method. The students' reading comprehension test scores were compared with those of students in other schools, not taught by…
Descriptors: Achievement Rating, Comparative Analysis, Correlation, Elementary Education
Planning: A Qualitative Description, Analysis and Evaluation, Phase I, Commonwealth Studies Project.
Boraks, Nancy; Schumacher, Sally – 1979
In 1978 the Commonwealth of Virginia initiated a three-year plan to develop basal fourth- and seventh-grade Virginia studies materials utilizing the resources of public and private institutions. The plan involved three stages: planning (1978-79), materials development (1979-80), and field testing and revision (1980-81). This document reviews the…
Descriptors: Agency Cooperation, Cooperative Planning, Coordination, Curriculum Development
Randhawa, Bikkar S. – 1980
Scores on mental ability and academic skills for 1958 and 1978 of representative sample of grade 4 and 7 classes in Saskatchewan were compared. The selected students were administered appropriate levels of the Otis-Lennon Mental Ability Tests, and the Canadian Tests of Basic skills in vocabulary, reading, language skills (spelling, capitalization,…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Achievement Tests, Basic Skills, Correlation