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Parsons, Seth A.; Malloy, Jacquelynn A.; Parsons, Allison Ward; Burrowbridge, Sarah Cohen – Reading Teacher, 2015
This article offers insight into what makes literacy tasks engaging or disengaging based on observations of and interviews with students. In a yearlong study of a sixth-grade classroom in a Title I school, students engaged in integrated literacy-social studies instruction. Researchers studied the degree of task openness and the degree to which…
Descriptors: Elementary School Students, Grade 6, Disadvantaged Schools, Social Studies
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Loukomies, Anni; Juuti, Kalle; Lavonen, Jari – International Journal of Science Education, 2015
Pupils' interest has been one of the major concerns in science education research because it can be seen as a gateway to more personalised forms of interest and motivation. However, methods to investigate situational interest in science teaching and learning are not broadly examined. This study compares the pupils' observed situational interest…
Descriptors: Elementary School Students, Science Instruction, Teaching Methods, Student Interests