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Anila Nazish; Muhammad Akhtar Kang – Journal of Education and Educational Development, 2024
A variety of factors are associated with the learning difficulty in mathematics in the context of Pakistani schools. This study explored the different causes of learning difficulties in mathematics faced by primary school students in Karachi, Pakistan. Using a quantitative research design, the data was gathered from the parents and teachers of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Learning Problems, Mathematics Instruction, Elementary School Students
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Schrodt, Katie; FitzPatrick, Erin; Brown, Megan; Hover, Ashlee – Reading & Writing Quarterly, 2023
Motivation impacts student academic performance. A performance task to directly assess writing motivation in young children is needed. The purpose of this investigation was to evaluate the validity of the Writing Challenge Task (WCT), a task-oriented assessment created to measure writing motivation with 106 kindergarten students in the rural…
Descriptors: Writing Assignments, Evaluation Methods, Student Motivation, Kindergarten
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Rönn, Charlotta; Pettersson, Daniel – Educational Assessment, Evaluation and Accountability, 2023
In contemporary ways of thinking about education there is an enhanced focus on individual students' results and less on students' collaborative processes for attaining good results. This may appear peculiar, given that the Swedish curriculum for the nine-year compulsory school states that students should be given opportunities to compose texts…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Secondary School Students, Grade 8, Grade 9
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Guimaraes, Sofia – Early Child Development and Care, 2023
Learning to write is a complex process involving linguistic, cognitive, and socio-emotional factors. From a developmental perspective, little research has explored the content of young children's writings in terms of specific cognitive skills such as Theory of Mind (TOM). This study explores how young children's writing may foster representations…
Descriptors: Writing (Composition), Theory of Mind, Young Children, Cognitive Processes
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Vilz, Delia; Barwasser, Anne; Hoff, Susanne; Grünke, Matthias – Insights into Learning Disabilities, 2022
Writing is considered the most arduous academic task in school. Many students struggle with motivating themselves to engage in text production due to the enormous cognitive load it requires. In this pilot study, we used a simple electronic device that emits silent vibration signals at programmed intervals to help five sixth graders to stay focused…
Descriptors: Writing (Composition), Student Motivation, Grade 6, Writing Assignments
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Graham, Steve; Harris, Karen R.; Fishman, Evan; Houston, Julia; Wijekumar, Kausalai; Lei, Pui-Wa; Ray, Amber B. – Elementary School Journal, 2019
This study tested whether writing skills, knowledge, motivation, and strategic behaviors (within the context of robust writing instruction) each made a statistically unique contribution to predicting fifth-grade students' (123 girls, 104 boys) composition quality and length on a persuasive writing task involving source material, after variance due…
Descriptors: Writing Skills, Knowledge Level, Student Motivation, Student Behavior
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Wijekumar, Kay; Graham, Steve; Harris, Karen R.; Lei, Pui-Wa; Barkel, Ashley; Aitken, Angelique; Ray, Amber; Houston, Julia – Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 2019
A core tenet of the model of domain learning is that learning is shaped by cognitive and motivational forces. In writing, these catalysts include learners' knowledge, motivation, strategic behaviors, and skills. This study tested this proposition at two time points (Fall and Spring) with 179 fifth-grade students (52% were girls), examining if…
Descriptors: Elementary School Students, Persuasive Discourse, Writing Skills, Writing Strategies
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Buyukalan, Sevil Filiz; Altinay, Yasemin Boyaci – Journal of Education and Training Studies, 2018
The aim of this study is to reveal the views of classroom teachers about homework assigned to primary students. In the study, a qualitative method was employed. The data were collected through semi-structured interviews and the participants were chosen using the purposive sampling technique. The participants of this study are twenty classroom…
Descriptors: Elementary School Teachers, Teacher Attitudes, Foreign Countries, Grade 1
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Qutob, Maysa M.; Madini, Abeer Ahmed – English Language Teaching, 2020
The aim of the current study is to investigate the Saudi English as a foreign language (EFL) learners' preferences for corrective feedback on written assignments. This mixed-method study used a closed-ended Likert scale questionnaire that was adopted and adapted to suit the participants under investigation. Additionally, an open-ended question was…
Descriptors: Error Correction, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, English (Second Language)
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Bragg, Leicha A.; Koch, Jessica; Willis, Ashley – Australian Primary Mathematics Classroom, 2017
One way to heighten students' interest in the classroom is by personalising tasks. Through designing Robot Bioglyphs students are able to explore personalised data through a creative and engaging process. By understanding, producing and interpreting data, students are able to develop their statistical literacy, which is an essential skill in…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Statistics, Student Motivation, Foreign Countries
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Lichtinger, Einat; Kaplan, Avi – Metacognition and Learning, 2015
Recent theory and research suggest that self-regulation is not a unitary set of strategies, and that students may employ different types of self-regulation strategies in ways that correspond with different motivational orientations. In this paper, we describe a situated case study approach to investigate the motivational orientation and…
Descriptors: Student Motivation, Self Control, Learning Disabilities, Case Studies
Chen, Peayton; Kuo, Rita; Chang, Maiga; Heh, Jia-Sheng – Research and Practice in Technology Enhanced Learning, 2017
The research team has developed a web-based multiplayer trading card game to allow teachers choosing cards as rewards for students who actively participate in discussions and classroom activities as well as perform well in terms of doing assignments and writing exams or quizzes. In order to verify the effectiveness of the use of in-game cards as…
Descriptors: Elementary School Students, Grade 5, Games, Computer Simulation
Smithsonian Center for Learning and Digital Access (Smithsonian Learning Lab), 2017
Launched in June 2016, the Smithsonian Learning Lab (SLL) provides access to the digital resources from across the Smithsonian's 19 museums, 9 major research centers, and the National Zoo, to be used as real-world learning experiences. It is designed to aid students in building lasting knowledge and critical skills that take learners from simply…
Descriptors: Learning Laboratories, Electronic Learning, Experiential Learning, Student Needs
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Ramsay, Julie D. – Educational Leadership, 2014
Sixth grade language arts teacher Julie Ramsay was disheartened at her students' lack of interest in writing, so she began looking at what they were doing online to see if she could bring some of those experiences to the classroom. She saw that students enjoyed having opportunities to share their experiences with an audience and receive…
Descriptors: Grade 6, Language Arts, Student Motivation, Writing Assignments
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Chen, Vicky – Journal for Learning through the Arts, 2017
This paper is a self-study that uses the lens of Vygotsky's four phases of sign acquisition to examine one student writer's development of voice through writing produced from 5th grade through her second year of graduate school (17 years). Growing up as a twin--and as a visually impaired individual--the author learned how to use the written word…
Descriptors: Writing Skills, Skill Development, Longitudinal Studies, Elementary School Students
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