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Download full textIndiana State Dept. of Education, Indianapolis. – 2002
This guide to Indiana's academic standards in Language Arts, Mathematics, Science, and the Social Studies for Grade 4 students begins with a note to students and another note to parents. The guide spells out what student should know and be able to do in each subject, at each grade level. The guide also lists 10 things parents can do to help…
Descriptors: Academic Standards, Grade 4, Intermediate Grades, Language Arts
Indiana State Dept. of Education, Indianapolis. – 2002
This guide to Indiana's academic standards in English/Language Arts, Mathematics, Science, and the Social Studies for Grade 5 students begins with a note to students and another note to parents. The guide spells out what students should know and be able to do in each subject, at each grade level. The guide also lists 10 things parents can do to…
Descriptors: Academic Standards, Grade 5, Intermediate Grades, Language Arts
Indiana State Dept. of Public Instruction, Indianapolis. – 2002
This guide to Indiana's academic standards in English/Language Arts, Mathematics, Science, and the Social Studies for Grade 6 students begins with a note to students and another note to parents. The guide spells out what students should know and be able to do in each subject, at each grade level. The guide also lists 10 things parents can do to…
Descriptors: Academic Standards, Grade 6, Intermediate Grades, Language Arts
Berryman, Charles – 1971
The purpose of the study reported was to determine the effects of the use of daily newspapers by elementary school students on their general and newspaper reading skills. Five social studies teachers taught 50 50 minute lessons over a period of 10 weeks to homogeneously grouped pupils in grades 4-7, using three local dailies as the instructional…
Descriptors: Achievement Gains, Achievement Tests, Curriculum Research, Educationally Disadvantaged
Peer reviewedAlspaugh, John W.; Harting, Roger D. – ERS Spectrum, 1997
Examines whether team-taught, departmentalized, and K-8 schools differed in academic achievement at grades six, seven, and eight. Dependent variables were mean building-level achievement scores in reading, mathematics, science, and social studies on the Spring 1995 Missouri Mastery and Achievement Tests. During the transition year, middle schools…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Achievement Tests, Departments, Intermediate Grades
Peer reviewedGettinger, Maribeth; White, Mary Alice – Journal of Educational Psychology, 1980
To evaluate curriculum fit with class ability, the magnitude of individual differences in size and number of instructional subunits read were examined, as well as number of repetitions of a unit required to achieve mastery. Subjects were average and high IQ fifth graders studying social studies. (Author/GDC)
Descriptors: Academic Ability, Classes (Groups of Students), Curriculum Evaluation, Evaluation Methods
Educational Testing Service, Princeton, NJ. Test Collection. – 1990
The 118 tests cited in this bibliography consist of items related to instructional objectives. Assessment of gains is made in terms of mastery of objectives rather than in comparison with group norms. Some of the entries are item banks geared to objectives from which the test administrator selects appropriate items for evaluating the test takers.…
Descriptors: Annotated Bibliographies, Basic Skills, Cognitive Tests, Criterion Referenced Tests
Peer reviewedAlspaugh, John W.; Harting, Roger D. – Research in Middle Level Education Quarterly, 1998
Studied the effects of interdisciplinary teaming versus departmentalization on student achievement in middle schools. Found no significant differences for reading, math, science, and social studies achievement. Results suggest that team teaching merits further investigation as a potential strategy for mediating the student achievement loss…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Departments, Educational Cooperation, Interdisciplinary Approach
Offenberg, Robert M. – 1992
This study assessed the effects of Instrumental Enrichment (IE) instruction with minority students on a non-verbal measure of students' intelligence (the Progressive Matrices test), on students' report card marks, and on students' City-Wide Test nationally-normed reading and mathematics scores in the School District of Philadelphia (Pennsylvania).…
Descriptors: Comparative Testing, Elementary School Students, Enrichment Activities, Instructional Effectiveness
