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Özcan, Meryem Seyda; Çetinkaya, Esra; Göksun, Tilbe; Kisbu-Sakarya, Yasemin – British Journal of Educational Psychology, 2021
Background: Coding has been added to school curricula in several countries, being one of the necessary competencies of the 21st century. Although it has also been suggested to foster the development of several cognitive skills such as computational thinking and problem-solving, studies on the effects of coding are very limited, provide mixed…
Descriptors: Coding, Thinking Skills, Elementary School Students, Computation
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Emre Zengin; Yasemin Karal – International Journal of Assessment Tools in Education, 2024
This study was carried out to develop a test to assess algorithmic thinking skills. To this end, the twelve steps suggested by Downing (2006) were adopted. Throughout the test development, 24 middle school sixth-grade students and eight experts in different areas took part as needed in the tasks on the project. The test was given to 252 students…
Descriptors: Grade 6, Algorithms, Thinking Skills, Evaluation Methods
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Botsas, George – Learning Disabilities: A Contemporary Journal, 2017
The aim of the study was to investigate differences in cognitive and metacognitive strategy use in the reading comprehension of narrative and expository texts among students with learning disabilities (SLD) and without learning disabilities (SWOLD). A total of 122 fifth and sixth graders took part in the study. Half of them (n = 61) were SLD…
Descriptors: Reading Comprehension, Reading Strategies, Learning Disabilities, Cognitive Processes
Kim, Dongwoo; Koedel, Cory; Ni, Shawn; Podgursky, Michael – National Center for Analysis of Longitudinal Data in Education Research (CALDER), 2016
State-specific licensing policies and pension plans create mobility costs for educators who cross state lines. We empirically test whether these costs affect production in schools--a hypothesis that follows directly from economic theory on labor frictions--using geo-coded data from the lower-48 states. We find that achievement is lower in…
Descriptors: Labor Market, Public Schools, Faculty Mobility, Geographic Location
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Michel, Hanno; Neumann, Irene – Science & Education, 2016
Besides viewing knowledge about the nature of science (NOS) as important for its own value with respect to scientific literacy, an adequate understanding of NOS is expected to improve science content learning by fostering the ability to interrelate scientific concepts and, thus, coherently acquire scientific content knowledge. However, there is a…
Descriptors: Scientific Principles, Grade 6, Grade 7, Energy
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Howell, Heather; Phelps, Geoffrey; Croft, Andrew J.; Kirui, David; Gitomer, Drew – ETS Research Report Series, 2013
This report provides a description of a cognitive interview study investigating validity of assessments designed to measure "content knowledge for teaching" (CKT). The report is intended both to provide information on the validity of the CKT measures and to provide guidance to researchers interested in replicating the design. The study…
Descriptors: Interviews, Knowledge Base for Teaching, Test Validity, Elementary School Teachers
Asha K. Jitendra; Michael R. Harwell; Stacy R. Karl; Danielle N. Dupuis; Gregory Simonson; Susan C. Slater; Amy E. Lein – Grantee Submission, 2016
This study examined the effects of a research-based intervention, schema-based instruction (SBI), implemented by experienced- (taught SBI in previous study; Jitendra et al., 2015) and novice-teacher implementers (taught SBI for the first time with professional development) on the mathematics outcomes of seventh-grade students. SBI is a…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Schemata (Cognition), Evidence Based Practice, Beginning Teachers
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Lindsey, Eric W.; MacKinnon-Lewis, Carol; Frabutt, James M.; Campbell Chambers, Jessica – Journal of Early Adolescence, 2015
The purpose of this study was to examine adolescent's hostile attributions of mother's intent and emotional self-expectancies as contributors to expression of emotion between mothers and adolescents. Data were collected from 268 10- to 12-year-olds (133 girls, 135 boys) and their mothers. Each dyad was observed in a conversational activity that…
Descriptors: Parent Child Relationship, Mothers, Emotional Response, Cognitive Processes
Smith, Darcie D. – ProQuest LLC, 2012
Eighty-seven 4th, 5th and 6th grade students were administered the "Derivational Relatedness Interview" (DRI) (Templeton, Smith, Moloney, Van Pelt, & Ives, 2009). The purpose of this instrument is to explore students' understanding of derivational morphology. During the same week, the subjects were also administered an Upper…
Descriptors: Elementary School Students, Grade 4, Grade 5, Grade 6
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Huddleston, Andrew P. – Education Policy Analysis Archives, 2015
The author uses Bourdieu's concepts of field, capital, and habitus to analyze how students, parents, teachers, and administrators are responding to Georgia's test-based grade retention policy in reading at one Georgia elementary school. In this multiple case study, the author interviewed, observed, and collected documents regarding ten fifth…
Descriptors: Grade Repetition, State Policy, Reading Achievement, Elementary School Teachers
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Chen, Wiyun; Hypnar, Andrew J.; Mason, Steve A.; Zalmout, Sandy – Journal of Teaching in Physical Education, 2014
The purpose of this study was to examine the contribution of quality physical education (QPET) in a Comprehensive School Physical Activity Program (CSPAP) which is intended to promote physical activity (PA) behaviors in and outside of schools. Participants were nine elementary physical education teachers and their fourth- and fifth-grade students…
Descriptors: Physical Activities, Physical Activity Level, Physical Education, Student Behavior
Hester, Amy – ProQuest LLC, 2012
Few studies have documented the literacy activities in an after-school setting of affluent early adolescents assigned to remedial reading. This may be because these students are not considered to be at risk of academic failure. The out-of-school literacy activities of 3 sixth-grade students were examined in this qualitative research. Multiple data…
Descriptors: Early Adolescents, Literacy, Grade 6, Qualitative Research
Stamper, John, Ed.; Pardos, Zachary, Ed.; Mavrikis, Manolis, Ed.; McLaren, Bruce M., Ed. – International Educational Data Mining Society, 2014
The 7th International Conference on Education Data Mining held on July 4th-7th, 2014, at the Institute of Education, London, UK is the leading international forum for high-quality research that mines large data sets in order to answer educational research questions that shed light on the learning process. These data sets may come from the traces…
Descriptors: Information Retrieval, Data Processing, Data Analysis, Data Collection