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Lucangeli, Daniela; Coi, Gabriella; Bosco, Paola – Learning Disabilities Research and Practice, 1997
This study with 155 fifth-grade Italian children examined students' metacognitive beliefs in mathematics and their relation to problem-solving performance. Poor problem solvers had lower metacognitive awareness, believed number size was an indicator of problem difficulty, and made more computational and procedural errors. (DB)
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Grade 5, Intermediate Grades, Learning Problems
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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
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Mason, Lucia – Instructional Science, 1998
This study investigated the role of talking-to-learn in small- and large-group discussions about a knowledge object and writing-to-learn in individual time after collaborative reasoning and arguing. The study involved a fifth-grade class in Italy studying ecological concepts, and results show that by sharing cognition students constructed more…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Discussion (Teaching Technique), Ecology, Foreign Countries