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Chen, Mengdi; Xu, Qinmei; Cui, Ming – School Psychology International, 2021
The present study investigated (1) the mediating role of attention in the associations between children's sleep problems and classroom learning behaviors in elementary school, and (2) the moderating role of gender in these associations. Results from structural equation modeling showed that children's sleep problems had a significant and negative…
Descriptors: Sleep, Attention, Student Behavior, Elementary School Students
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Jian, Yu-Cin – Research in Science Education, 2020
Scientific texts are often multimodal, consisting of both text and illustrations. However, previous research indicates that young readers are poor at using text-and-illustration integration strategies and at in-depth processing of scientific illustration information. This study used an experimental paradigm to teach strategies of illustration…
Descriptors: Biology, Illustrations, Science Materials, Content Area Reading
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Özenc, Mehmet; Dursun, Harun; Sahin, Selçuk – Participatory Educational Research, 2020
This study examines the effects of activities developed with WEB 2.0 tools based on the 5E learning cycle model on the multiplication achievement of 4th graders. Nonequivalent control group pretest-posttest quasi-experimental design was employed in the study. Two of the three groups that were equivalent in terms of achievement were assigned as…
Descriptors: Instructional Effectiveness, Mathematics Instruction, Technology Integration, Web 2.0 Technologies
Adlof, Suzanne; Frishkoff, Gwen; Dandy, Jennifer; Perfetti, Charles – Grantee Submission, 2016
Word learning can build the high-quality word representations that support skilled reading and language comprehension. According to the partial knowledge hypothesis, words that are partially known, a.k.a. "frontier words" (Durso & Shore, 1991), may be good targets for instruction precisely because they are already familiar. However,…
Descriptors: Semantics, Familiarity, Adults, Children
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Hess, Karin K. – Science and Children, 2010
Learning progressions (LPs)--descriptive continuums of how students develop and demonstrate more sophisticated understanding over time--have become an increasingly important tool in today's science classrooms. Here the author discusses some of the research behind learning progressions and presents The Science Inquiry Profile for PreK-4. This is a…
Descriptors: Classrooms, Scientific Principles, Science Instruction, Elementary School Students
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Acha, Joana – British Journal of Educational Technology, 2009
The present experiment investigated the effect of three different presentation modes in children's vocabulary learning with a self-guided multimedia programmes. Participants were 135 third and fourth grade children who read a short English language story presented by a computer programme. For 12 key (previously unknown) words in the story,…
Descriptors: Short Term Memory, Learning Processes, Grade 4, Vocabulary Development