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Blondin, Carolyn; Skinner, Christopher; Parkhurst, John; Wood, Allison; Snyder, Jamie – Journal of Applied School Psychology, 2012
The authors used a withdrawal design to evaluate the effects of a modified Color Wheel System (M-CWS) on the on-task behavior of 7 students enrolled in the 4th grade. Standard CWS procedures were modified to include a 4th set of rules designed to set behavioral expectation for cooperative learning activities. Mean data showed that immediately…
Descriptors: Evidence, Cooperative Learning, Time on Task, Grade 4
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VanFossen, Phillip J.; McGrew, Chris – International Journal of Social Education, 2008
This study replicates a 2005 study of the status of social studies in the K-5 curriculum in Indiana. The current study reports the results of a comprehensive survey (33 fixed and 2 open-ended) of a stratified (by grade) random sample of K-5 teachers in Indiana (n = 385; response rate = 32%). Results indicated a continued marginalization of social…
Descriptors: Academic Standards, Social Studies, State Standards, Elementary Education
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Morton, Beth A.; Dalton, Ben – National Center for Education Statistics, 2007
This brief report uses data from five administrations of the Schools and Staffing Survey (SASS) to examine the distribution of weekly instructional hours by regular, full-time first- through fourth-grade teachers of self-contained classrooms in four subjects: English/reading/language arts; arithmetic/mathematics; social studies/history; and,…
Descriptors: Social Studies, Self Contained Classrooms, Public School Teachers, Time Management