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The Relative Effectiveness of Different Active Learning Implementations in Teaching Elementary School Students How to Design Simple Experiments
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Amedee Marchand Martella; David Klahr; Weiling Li – Journal of Educational Psychology, 2020
"Active learning" has been used to describe classrooms that have varied widely with respect to instructional topics, age of learners, and the procedures used to operationalize the general notion of the term. In most cases, the specific variant of active learning under investigation has been more effective than the particular control used…
Descriptors: Elementary School Students, Grade 3, Grade 4, Design
The Relative Effectiveness of Different Active Learning Implementations in Teaching Elementary School Students How to Design Simple Experiments
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Amedee Marchand Martella; David Klahr; Weiling Li – Grantee Submission, 2019
"Active learning" has been used to describe classrooms that have varied widely with respect to instructional topics, age of learners, and the procedures used to operationalize the general notion of the term. In most cases, the specific variant of active learning under investigation has been more effective than the particular control used…
Descriptors: Elementary School Students, Grade 3, Grade 4, Design
Effects of Integrating Multimedia into the Third Grade Mathematics Curriculum to Improve Student Learning
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Liu, Yuliang – Journal of Educational Technology Systems, 2012
This project was designed to test Mayer's multimedia theory in an elementary school to improve students' mathematics learning for low-income children. The study designed and developed two multimedia mathematics experiments in 3rd grade: 9's multiplication experiment and geometric solids experiment. The two experimental lessons were implemented in…
Descriptors: Mathematics Education, Low Income Groups, Pretests Posttests, Geometric Concepts
Effectiveness of "On Our Way to English" as a Program for Development of Reading and Oral Proficiency by Elementary English Learners: A Report of Randomized Experiments in a California and a Texas School District. Research Report
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Newman, Denis; Jaciw, Andrew – Empirical Education Inc., 2005
The authors were asked to find out whether "On Our Way to English" ("OWE"), a supplementary, text-based product to help elementary school students learn to read and speak English was more effective in a California and a Texas school district than the materials the districts already had in place. They conducted an experiment…
Descriptors: Curriculum Implementation, Instructional Materials, Federal Aid, Interviews