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Dinah Reuter; Frank Reinhold – International Electronic Journal of Mathematics Education, 2025
The perception and manipulation of spatial information are essential for mathematical learning, and research highlights gender differences in spatial abilities. The present study contributes to the question of whether these differences are evident at earlier ages and how they interact with task complexity in mental rotation. We developed the…
Descriptors: Elementary School Students, Spatial Ability, Mathematics Instruction, Gender Differences
Boggio, Cynthia; Bosse, Marie-Line; Favre-Félix, Alexis; Pobel-Burtin, Céline; Burnel, Morgane; Bianco, Maryse – Journal of Educational Research, 2023
Learning to spell is a difficult but essential task for children learning to read. Several spelling tasks involving different cognitive demands are used in classroom. To provide better guidance for teaching practices, a critical question is whether spelling performance of beginner readers is task dependent. The present study focuses on the…
Descriptors: Literacy, Learning Activities, Comparative Analysis, Grade 1
Irina Kliziene; Gintaute Sinkeviciene; Ginas Cizauskas; Aldona Augustiniene – Cogent Education, 2024
Primary school pupils with hearing impairment face various obstacles to their academic and personal growth. The main aim of the study was to reveal the impact of the use of gamification methods on the mathematic achievement of primary school pupils with hearing impairment. This study used a pretest/posttest experimental strategy. The experiment…
Descriptors: Gamification, Mathematics Achievement, Instructional Effectiveness, Elementary School Students
Youran Lin; Karen E. Pollock; Fangfang Li – Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 2025
Purpose: This study investigates how Mandarin-English bilingual students in Canada produce Mandarin tones and how this is influenced by factors such as tone complexity, cross-linguistic influences, and speech input. Method: Participants were 82 students enrolled in a Chinese bilingual program in Western Canada. Students were recruited from Grades…
Descriptors: Speech Communication, Mandarin Chinese, Tone Languages, Elementary School Students
Prast, Emilie J.; Stroet, Kim; Koornneef, Arnout; Wilderjans, Tom F. – Frontline Learning Research, 2023
Differentiation and achievement grouping are frequently implemented practices to adapt education to students' varying educational needs based on achievement level. Potential didactical and socioemotional advantages and disadvantages of these practices have been discussed in the literature. However, little is known about the perspective of students…
Descriptors: Student Attitudes, Individualized Instruction, Academic Achievement, Foreign Countries
Diago, Pascual D.; Yáñez, Dionisio F.; Arnau, David – Journal for the Study of Education and Development, 2022
Patterning, as a component of early mathematic knowledge, is a common activity carried out at elementary levels in which children are not equally successful. This study aimed to measure different variables affecting performance on patterning tasks in early childhood. For this purpose, the success of Pre-K (N = 33), K (N = 31) and first-grade…
Descriptors: Pattern Recognition, Mathematics Skills, Preschool Children, Kindergarten
Abdullah Kaldirim; Omer Faruk Tavsanli – SAGE Open, 2024
The purpose of this longitudinal study was to critically evaluate the updated Turkish reading curricula to determine whether they enable teachers to design instructional sequences that are highly cognitively demanding. This study was designed as a qualitative inquiry using document analysis to estimate the pedagogically oriented intellectual…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Reading Instruction, Curriculum Development, Elementary Schools
Mahfoudhi, Abdessatar; Abdalla, Fauzia; Al-Sulaihim, Nailah – Language, Speech, and Hearing Services in Schools, 2023
Purpose: This study examines the development of narrative microstructure elements of productivity, lexical diversity, and syntactic complexity in the oral story production of preschool- and school-age Kuwaiti Arabic-speaking children. It also explores the effects of story task complexity on the target microstructural features. Method: This study…
Descriptors: Arabic, Task Analysis, Difficulty Level, Monolingualism
Ganayim, Deia; Ganayim, Shireen; Dowker, Ann; Olkun, Sinan – Journal of Cognitive Education and Psychology, 2021
The study focuses on the effect of the lexical-syntactic structure on the patterns of errors by Arab first graders in tasks involving reading two-digit number and writing two-digit numbers to dictation. Children made few change or omission errors, indicating that they had little problem with the lexical aspects of the counting system. However,…
Descriptors: Arabs, Grade 1, Elementary School Students, Syntax
Anderssen, Kate-Lyn; Kritzinger, Alta; Pottas, Lidia – South African Journal of Childhood Education, 2019
Background: Studies indicate that difficulties English second language (ESL) learners experience in the classroom may not be attributed to only listening comprehension of the language of learning and teaching (LoLT). ESL learners' performance-related difficulties may increase when linguistic complexity is added to auditory comprehension tasks.…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Grade 1
Mostert, Ingrid E. – Pythagoras, 2020
Word problems form an important part of the early grade mathematics curriculum in South Africa. Studies have shown that the relative difficulty of word problems differ: learners are more likely to solve certain types of word problems than others, with compare type problems being the most difficult. In order to help early grade learners understand…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Word Problems (Mathematics), Difficulty Level, Problem Solving
Lopez-Pedersen, Anita; Mononen, Riikka; Korhonen, Johan; Aunio, Pirjo; Melby-Lervåg, Monica – Scandinavian Journal of Educational Research, 2021
This study investigated the psychometric properties of the Early Numeracy Screener. The Early Numeracy Screener is a teacher-administered, paper-and-pencil test measuring counting skills, numerical relational skills, and basic arithmetic skills. Three hundred and sixty-six first graders took the Early Numeracy Screener at the beginning of the…
Descriptors: Numeracy, Screening Tests, Test Validity, Test Reliability
Rahbari, Noriyeh – Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 2019
The objective of the present study is to examine the error patterns for Persian reading and spelling when controlling for the complexity level of words. A sample of 140 children attending Grades 1-4 in Iran read and spelled the same words that differed in reading transparency (transparent vs. opaque) and spelling consistency (monographic vs.…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Indo European Languages, Error Patterns, Reading Skills
Bastianello, Tamara; Brondino, Margherita; Persici, Valentina; Majorano, Marinella – Journal of Research in Childhood Education, 2023
The present contribution aims at presenting an assessment tool (i.e., the TALK-assessment) built to evaluate the language development and school readiness of Italian preschoolers before they enter primary school, and its predictive validity for the children's reading and writing skills at the end of the first year of primary school. The early…
Descriptors: Literacy, Computer Assisted Testing, Italian, Language Acquisition
Kim, Young-Suk Grace; Petscher, Yaacov; Treiman, Rebecca; Kelcey, Benjamin – Scientific Studies of Reading, 2021
To expand our understanding of script-general and script-specific principles in the learning of letter names, we examined how three characteristics of alphabet letters -- their frequency in printed materials, order in the alphabet, and visual similarity to other letters -- relate to children's letter-name knowledge in four languages with three…
Descriptors: Alphabets, Orthographic Symbols, Written Language, Printed Materials