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Manitoba Dept. of Education and Training, Winnipeg. – 1990
The study summarized (in both English and French) in this report, is an evaluation of the listening comprehension and speech skills of sixth grade students in Manitoba's (Canada) French immersion programs. It is intended for parents and teachers in the province involved in the French immersion program. The report consists of an overview of the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, French, Grade 6, Immersion Programs
District of Columbia Public Schools, Washington, DC. Div. of Quality Assurance. – 1985
This report presents a description and evaluation of the Nature-Computer Camp (NCC), a science- and technology-oriented program for sixth-grade students from the District of Columbia Public Schools. The NCC experience is designed to offer students opportunities in such environmentally-related areas as woodland ecology, stream ecology, geology, as…
Descriptors: Computer Literacy, Computer Science Education, Ecology, Environmental Education
Download full textShipe, Ron W.; And Others – 1986
The purpose of this project was to evaluate the effectiveness of an interactive Level 1 videodisc program called "Mastering Fractions." The evaluation was conducted in two parts. Part 1 was a controlled study that compared the Mastering Fractions program to a more traditional fractions curriculum while controlling for any novelty effect of the…
Descriptors: Educational Technology, Elementary School Mathematics, Grade 6, Intermediate Grades
Peer reviewedCarlson, Helen L.; Makila, Phyllis – Social Education, 1982
Describes the "Neighborhood Walking Tour" project in which gifted sixth graders worked with college students in Duluth, Minnesota to compile histories of buildings located in their neighborhoods. Evaluation results show that the project results in a greater awareness of appropriate sources for the collection of various types of data. (RM)
Descriptors: Academically Gifted, Community Study, Cross Age Teaching, Elementary Education
Baker, Geraldine – 1990
Questionnaires were mailed to parents of the 55 sixth graders in the 1988-89 year-round school pilot program in Conroe Independent School District in Texas and to those of sixth graders on the district's traditional calendar to determine parent perceptions and satisfaction regarding the year-round school calendar. The document also reviews the…
Descriptors: Grade 6, Intermediate Grades, Parent Attitudes, Parent School Relationship
PDF pending restorationNordgren, James L. – 1990
A music teacher used the Minnesota Educational Computing Corporation (MECC) study guide to implement a 10-week practicum intervention designed to increase sixth graders' retention of musical terminology. A total of 12 beginning band students used a computer-aided instruction program to review questions drawn from workbook materials they had…
Descriptors: Computer Assisted Instruction, Computer Software Evaluation, Computer Uses in Education, Elementary School Students
District of Columbia Public Schools, Washington, DC. Div. of Quality Assurance. – 1986
This report presents a description and evaluation of the Nature-Computer Camp (NCC), an environmental and computer science program designed for sixth grade students in the District of Columbia public schools. Inputs, processes and outcomes based on a Planning, Monitoring and Implementing (PMI) Evaluation Model are reviewed for each of the four…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Attitude Change, Computer Literacy, Computer Science Education
District of Columbia Public Schools, Washington, DC. Div. of Quality Assurance. – 1985
This report presents a description and evaluation of the Nature-Computer Camp (NCC), an environmental and computer science program designed for sixth grade students in the District of Columbia public schools. Inputs, processes and outcomes based on a Planning, Monitoring and Implementing (PMI) Evaluation Model are reviewed for each of the four…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Attitude Change, Computer Literacy, Computer Science Education
Donoho, Grace – Drexel Library Quarterly, 1985
Presents a case study of the library media program at Old High Elementary School, Bentonville, Arkansas, which uses production of audiovisual materials to build extrinsic motivation into reading programs for grades five and six and special education classes. Five measurement techniques used to evaluate the program's effectiveness are also…
Descriptors: Audiovisual Aids, Case Studies, Elementary Education, Emotional Disturbances
Daly, Joseph L.; Richburg, Robert W. – 1984
To gather longitudinal student achievement data from schools utilizing the four-day week, Iowa Tests of Basic Skills (ITBS) grade equivalent scores were obtained in 1984 from five rural Colorado school districts for four consecutive years--two years prior to and two years following the districts' change to the shortened week. A first analysis…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Classes (Groups of Students), Elementary Education, Grade 3
Dalton, William Edward – 1980
Described is a project designed to make government lessons and economics more appealing to sixth-grade students by having them set up and run a model city. General preparation procedures and set-up of the project, specific lesson plans, additional activities, and project evaluation are examined. An actual 3-dimensional model city was set up on…
Descriptors: Awards, City Government, Community Study, Course Content
