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Mouratidou, Katerina; Goutza, Stavroula; Chatzopoulos, Dimitrios – European Physical Education Review, 2007
Moral development is one of the goals of physical education (PE). However, few programmes have been implemented to investigate how moral development is promoted in PE settings. This study was designed in order to explore the effectiveness of a six-week specially designed moral development intervention in the PE domain in high school students, and…
Descriptors: Experimental Groups, Control Groups, Physical Education, Teaching Styles
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Carter, Carolyn J. – Educational Leadership, 1997
Teachers in Highland Park, Michigan, conducted research and began an interactive reading-instruction program for students who were not succeeding in school. Reciprocal teaching, which trains students to use four strategies (generating questions, summarizing, clarifying, and predicting) for improving reading comprehension, raised hopes,…
Descriptors: Curriculum Development, Elementary Secondary Education, Program Descriptions, Reading Achievement
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Clark, Kathleen F.; Graves, Michael F. – Reading Teacher, 2005
In this article, the authors explore the concept of instructional scaffolding as it applies to facilitating students' reading comprehension. They argue that scaffolding is a highly flexible and adaptable model of instruction that supports students as they acquire both basic skills and higher order thinking processes, allows for explicit…
Descriptors: Reading Instruction, Cognitive Processes, Reading Comprehension, Scaffolding (Teaching Technique)
Clark, Leanne – 2003
Reciprocal teaching, a type of metacognitive strategy, has been found to be an effective method in improving comprehension in school-aged students; however, little research exists on using reciprocal teaching with adult high school students. This study investigated the efficacy of using the reciprocal teaching method to improve reading…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Discussion (Teaching Technique), Independent Study, Instructional Effectiveness
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Johns, T. F.; Lixun, Wang – System, 1999
Traces the origin and development of a text-based computer-assisted language-learning activity, namely the shuffling of sentences of a text and the reconstruction on screen of that text. Emphasizes the elements of continuity between the first version, implemented on a mainframe computer, and the latest version. Classroom use of the latest version…
Descriptors: Chinese, Computer Assisted Instruction, Computer Software Development, Higher Education
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Jackson, Josephine A.; Dorgo, Sandor – Teaching Elementary Physical Education, 2002
Describes benefits of and challenges to achieving the national standards for physical education by using the Spectrum reciprocal style of teaching, discussing how it can be linked to all seven of the national standards for physical education and how all three of the learning domains (psychomotor, cognitive, and social) have some connection, with…
Descriptors: Cognitive Development, Elementary Education, National Standards, Physical Education
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Van Garderen, Delinda – Reading and Writing Quarterly, 2004
Ms. Johnson was concerned about the inconsistent performance of several of her students in solving mathematical word problems. A number of her students were one to two grade levels below their grade placement in reading, spoke English as a second language, and had identified reading disabilities. On mathematics assignments that required minimal…
Descriptors: Mathematics Instruction, Word Problems (Mathematics), Teaching Methods, Reading Comprehension
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Erten, Ismail Hakki; Karakas, Müge – Reading Matrix: An International Online Journal, 2007
This study aims at understanding how the use of different reading activities affects readers' comprehension of short stories. Forty-seven students with an advanced level of English proficiency participated in the study where a quasi-experimental research design was pursued. The experimental and control groups of students completed different sets…
Descriptors: Reading Comprehension, Literary Genres, Reciprocal Teaching, Inferences
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Lawrence, Lisa Jean – Reading Matrix: An International Online Journal, 2007
The following article discusses cognitive and metacognitive reading strategies and the use of them particularly among bilingual students. It distinguishes between the two types of strategies. Strategy use among monolingual and bilingual students are described and compared. The article focuses on the need for strategy instruction, particularly…
Descriptors: Metacognition, Academic Discourse, Teaching Methods, Reciprocal Teaching
Puchner, Laurel D. – 2003
This paper synthesizes what is known from previous research about the effects of children teaching other children in different K-12 contexts, emphasizing the academic and affective impact of such activity on the child doing the teaching. The study reviews peer teaching, integrating research findings about different types of peer teaching into one…
Descriptors: Context Effect, Cooperative Learning, Cross Age Teaching, Elementary Secondary Education
Oczkus, Lori D. – 2003
Reciprocal teaching is a scaffolded technique based on teacher modeling, student participation, and four strategies that good readers use to comprehend text: predicting, questioning, clarifying, and summarizing. Although reciprocal teaching originally was designed for use with struggling readers, this book offers innovative lessons aimed at…
Descriptors: Classroom Techniques, Elementary Education, Learning Activities, Lesson Plans
Bruce, Merle E.; Robinson, Gregory L. – 2001
This study assessed the effectiveness of a metacognitive and reciprocal teaching approach for improving the word identification and reading comprehension skills of upper primary poor readers in a regular classroom situation. To improve word identification skills, experimental subjects were given metacognitive training in the analysis and…
Descriptors: Instructional Effectiveness, Intermediate Grades, Metacognition, Reading Comprehension
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Hart, Ellen R.; Speece, Deborah L. – Journal of Educational Psychology, 1998
Study investigates the effects of a structured reading-comprehension technique, reciprocal teaching, on postsecondary students at risk for academic failure. The sample included at-risk students enrolled in a community college who participated in either the reciprocal teaching or cooperative-learning condition. Results and implications for the…
Descriptors: College Students, Community Colleges, Cooperative Learning, Educational Psychology
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Takala, Marjatta – Scandinavian Journal of Educational Research, 2006
Reading comprehension of fourth and sixth graders was promoted with reciprocal teaching in three mainstream classes, and three special classes for pupils with specific language impairment (SLI). Four cognitive strategies were used to enhance these pupils' reading comprehension skills. Six coordinated, 5-week interventions were held during regular…
Descriptors: Grade 6, Grade 4, Special Classes, Reciprocal Teaching
Lederer, Jeffrey M. – 1997
This study examines the effectiveness of Reciprocal Teaching during social studies instruction in fourth-, fifth-, and sixth-grade inclusive classrooms (N=128) in a rural school system in New Mexico. Reciprocal teaching is a method of scaffolded instruction that has been demonstrated to improve reading comprehension in students of various ability…
Descriptors: Disabilities, Grade 4, Grade 5, Grade 6
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