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Sun, Lihui; You, Xinxin; Zhou, Danhua – Education and Information Technologies, 2023
Computational thinking (CT) has become the basic foothold of STEAM education. The role of teachers as an essential element of CT education cannot be ignored. Therefore, measuring teachers' ability to integrate CT into classroom is necessary. There were two sub-studies in this study, the one was to develop a specialized scale for the evaluation of…
Descriptors: STEM Education, Art Education, Computation, Thinking Skills
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Akiri, Effrat; Tor, Hrisilda Matathia; Dori, Yehudit Judy – EURASIA Journal of Mathematics, Science and Technology Education, 2021
This study explores Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) teachers' perceptions of teaching and assessment methods. We investigated 125 STEM subject coordinators and teachers using interviews and questionnaires. We examined the most commonly implemented teaching and assessment methods, and the reasons teachers chose them. Then,…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Evaluation Methods, STEM Education, Teacher Attitudes
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Yazar, Ilyas; Hazar, Dilek; Kesan, Cenk; Özer, Mehmet – International Online Journal of Primary Education, 2021
The current study examines the verbs used by pre-service primary school teachers in everyday language in the context of the hierarchy of needs using the SOM-Ward clustering method. The study group of this survey research consists of 271 pre-service primary school teachers studying at a public university in Turkey. In this research, pre-service…
Descriptors: Verbs, Language Usage, Preservice Teachers, State Universities
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Logan, Jessica – Journal of Educational Psychology, 2017
The goal of this study was to examine how selected pressure points or areas of vulnerability are related to individual differences in reading comprehension and whether the importance of these pressure points varies as a function of the level of children's reading comprehension. A sample of 245 third-grade children were given an assessment battery…
Descriptors: Multiple Regression Analysis, Reading Comprehension, Individual Differences, Grade 3
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Gremmen, Mariola C.; van den Berg, Yvonne H. M.; Segers, Eliane; Cillessen, Antonius H. N. – Social Psychology of Education: An International Journal, 2016
As a part of classroom management, teachers face the question of how and where to seat their students. However, it is far from clear what considerations teachers have when making seating arrangements. Therefore, in this study seating arrangement considerations from 50 teachers in grades 4-6 of elementary school were assessed. In Phase 1, teachers…
Descriptors: Classroom Techniques, Class Organization, Teacher Characteristics, Teacher Attitudes
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Hasanzadeh, Elmira; Mohammadi, Mohammad-Reza; Ghanizadeh, Ahmad; Rezazadeh, Shams-Ali; Tabrizi, Mina; Rezaei, Farzin; Akhondzadeh, Shahin – Child Psychiatry and Human Development, 2012
"Ginkgo biloba" has been reported to affect the neurotransmitter system and to have antioxidant properties that could impact the pathogenesis of Autism Spectrum Disorder. Based on these studies, we decided to assess the effectiveness of "Ginkgo biloba" extract (Ginko T.D., Tolidaru, Iran) as an adjunctive agent to risperidone in the treatment of…
Descriptors: Autism, Pathology, Rating Scales, Patients
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Hughes, Claire; Ensor, Rosie; Marks, Alex – Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 2011
Despite a wealth of studies in the field, longitudinal assessments of both the stability and predictive utility of individual differences in preschoolers' understanding of the mind remain scarce. To address these gaps, we applied latent variable analyses to (a) experimental data gathered from a socially diverse sample (N = 101, 60 boys and 41…
Descriptors: Preschool Children, Verbal Ability, Longitudinal Studies, Individual Differences
Risko, Victoria J.; Walker-Dalhouse, Doris – Teachers College Press, 2012
Tens of thousands of students begin each new school year with the hope that they will finally find "the" teacher who will help them succeed as readers, writers, and learners. This book shows how teachers can provide the type of differentiated instruction that struggling readers need by drawing on students' individual and cultural backgrounds, as…
Descriptors: Individualized Instruction, Reading Instruction, Reading Difficulties, Teaching Methods
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DeWitt, Jennifer; Archer, Louise; Osborne, Jonathan; Dillon, Justin; Willis, Beatrice; Wong, Billy – International Journal of Science and Mathematics Education, 2011
Students' interest in studying science and their aspirations to pursue science-related careers is a topic of global concern. In this paper, a set of data gathered for the initial phase of the 5-year study of Science Aspirations and Careers: Age 10-14 (the ASPIRES project) is presented. In the initial phase of this project, a questionnaire…
Descriptors: Careers, Student Attitudes, Measures (Individuals), White Students
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Goldweber, Asha; Bradshaw, Catherine P.; Goodman, Kimberly; Monahan, Kathryn; Cooley-Strickland, Michele – Journal of Clinical Child and Adolescent Psychology, 2011
There is compelling evidence for the role of social information processing (SIP) in aggressive behavior. However, less is known about factors that influence stability versus instability in patterns of SIP over time. Latent transition analysis was used to identify SIP patterns over one year and examine how community violence exposure, aggressive…
Descriptors: Evidence, Urban Schools, Violence, Aggression
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Normand, Sebastien; Flora, David B.; Toplak, Maggie E.; Tannock, Rosemary – Journal of Abnormal Child Psychology, 2012
Recent factor analytic studies in Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) have shown that hierarchical models provide a better fit of ADHD symptoms than correlated models. A hierarchical model includes a general ADHD factor and specific factors for inattention, and hyperactivity/impulsivity. The aim of this 12-month longitudinal study was…
Descriptors: Evidence, Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder, Conceptual Tempo, Females
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Titze, Corinna; Jansen, Petra; Heil, Martin – Learning and Individual Differences, 2010
The influence of gender beliefs on cognitive task performance has been demonstrated repeatedly for adults. For children, there is evidence that gender beliefs can substantially impede or boost math performance--a task where gender differences in favour of boys declined over past decades. Therefore, we examined this phenomenon using the Mental…
Descriptors: Females, Spatial Ability, Grade 4, Gender Differences
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DeGarmo, David Scott – Child Development, 2010
To better understand quantity and quality of divorced father contact, a weighted county sample of 230 divorced fathers with a child aged 4-11 years was employed to test whether fathers' antisocial personality (ASP) moderated effects of monthly contact with children in predicting children's observed noncompliance. Eighteen-month latent growth…
Descriptors: Parenting Styles, Child Rearing, Personality, Fathers
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Altshuler, Sandra J.; Cleverly-Thomas, Amber – Child Welfare, 2011
Although the methamphetamine epidemic in the United States has caught the attention of law enforcement and the media, the needs of the children living in so-called "meth homes" have not yet been addressed. These children are endangered from not only the chemicals involved, but also parental abuse and/or neglect. Little is known, however,…
Descriptors: School Security, Law Enforcement, Developmental Delays, Child Abuse
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Daly, Edward J., III; Johnson, Sarah; LeClair, Courtney – Journal of Behavioral Education, 2009
In this 2-experiment study, experimental analyses of phoneme blending and segmenting skills were conducted with four-first grade students. Intraindividual analyses were conducted to identify the effects of classroom-based instruction on blending phonemes in Experiment 1. In Experiment 2, the effects of an individualized intervention for the…
Descriptors: Intervention, Phonemes, Emergent Literacy, Evaluation Methods
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