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Anne Jaksa; Carlos Lopez; Cathie Norris; Clark Rodeffer; Gus Simiao; Elliot Soloway; Alena Zachery-Ross – Journal of Interactive Learning Research, 2024
The study investigates the impact of Roadmap-formatted curriculum on student reading growth in grades 3-5 in the Ypsilanti Community Schools (Ypsilanti, MI). Classrooms in grades 3-5 were divided into two groups: those using the Roadmap-formatted, commercially-provided curriculum and those using the same commercially-provided curriculum in…
Descriptors: Elementary School Students, Reading Achievement, Grade 3, Grade 4
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Chen, I-Ching; Hu, Shueh-Cheng – Journal of Educational Computing Research, 2013
The capability of solving fundamental mathematical problems is essential to elementary school students; however instruction based on ordinary narration usually perplexes students. Concept mapping is well known for its effectiveness on assimilating and organizing knowledge, which is essential to meaningful learning. A variety of concept map-based…
Descriptors: Concept Mapping, Computer Uses in Education, Mathematics Instruction, Problem Solving
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Huang, Hwa-Shan; Chiou, Chei-Chang; Chiang, Heien-Kun; Lai, Sung-Hsi; Huang, Chiun-Yen; Chou, Yin-Yu – Computers & Education, 2012
This study explores the effect of multidimensional concept mapping instruction on students' learning performance in a web-based computer course. The subjects consisted of 103 fourth graders from an elementary school in central Taiwan. They were divided into three groups: multidimensional concept map (MCM) instruction group, Novak concept map (NCM)…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Concept Mapping, Grade 4, Internet
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Demetriou, Dorita; Korfiatis, Konstantinos; Constantinou, Constantinos – Journal of Biological Education, 2009
The ability to comprehend trophic (nutritional) relationships and food web dynamics is an essential part of environmental literacy. However, students face severe difficulties in grasping the variety of causal patterns in food webs. We propose a curriculum for comprehending trophic relations in elementary school. The curriculum allows students to…
Descriptors: Experimental Groups, Control Groups, Environmental Education, Foreign Countries
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Jang, Syh-Jong – School Science and Mathematics, 2010
The purpose of this research was to evaluate a collaborative concept-mapping technique that was integrated into coteaching in fourth-grade science classes in order to examine students' performance and attitudes toward the experimental teaching method. There are two fourth-grade science teachers and four classes with a total of 114 students…
Descriptors: Feedback (Response), Concept Mapping, Elementary School Science, Science Teachers