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Duin, Ann Hill – 1983
A study investigated the effects of preteaching vocabulary on students' performance of a writing task targeted to the use of those words. Subjects were 50 fourth grade and 55 sixth grade students. Materials included a pretest narrative writing assignment, a 10-word vocabulary pretest and posttest, a vocabulary instructional booklet with teacher's…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Grade 4, Grade 6, Intermediate Grades
Peer reviewedNicholls, John G.; Nelson, J. Ron – Journal of Educational Psychology, 1992
Five boys and five girls each in grades one through six (n=60 students) asked controversial questions in interviews, recognized the lack of social consensus on the controversial topics and made subtle distinctions between controversial and noncontroversial topics. Implications for discussion of controversial issues in the classroom are discussed.…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Child Development, Concept Formation, Controversial Issues (Course Content)
