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Elo, Janne – Educational Action Research, 2016
This article is the result of an action research project conducted in 2014 in a primary school in the city of Vaasa in Finland. The project focused on developing the practice of integrating enterprise education as a part of everyday teaching in Grade Three. The project involved three class teachers, the headmaster and a university researcher. This…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Action Research, Relevance (Education), Barriers
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Ladd, Gary W.; Kochenderfer-Ladd, Becky; Visconti, Kari Jeanne; Ettekal, Idean; Sechler, Casey M.; Cortes, Khaerannisa I. – American Educational Research Journal, 2014
Little is known about the skills children need to successfully collaborate with classmates on academic assignments. The purposes of this study were to identify grade-schoolers' collaborative skills, evaluate the importance of identified skills for collaborative work, and determine whether differences in skill use were related to children's social…
Descriptors: Interpersonal Competence, Cooperation, Elementary School Students, Academic Ability
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Wu, Chiu-yen; Lo, Ya-yu; Feng, Hua; Lo, Yafen – Journal of Emotional and Behavioral Disorders, 2010
Two third-grade Taiwanese students at risk for emotional and behavioral disorders participated in a pull-out, small-group social skills training program developed to promote their skill acquisition and maintenance. Using a multiple baseline across skills design, the authors demonstrated that both participants made marked performance improvement in…
Descriptors: Maintenance, At Risk Students, Behavior Disorders, Conflict Resolution
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Utley, Cheryl A.; Greenwood, Charles R.; Douglas, Katherine – Multiple Voices for Ethnically Diverse Exceptional Learners, 2007
This pilot study examines the effects of the implementation of the Cool Tool, a social skills strategy, on the disruptive and problem behaviors of third-grade (n = 4) and fourth-grade (n = 6) African American students in an urban elementary school. Following the completion of the social skills intervention in both classrooms, the findings of pre-…
Descriptors: African American Students, Intervention, Interpersonal Competence, Behavior Problems