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Gabriele Stupuriene; Tatjana Jevsikova; Yasemin Gülbahar; Anita Juškeviciene; Austeja Gindulyte; Agne Juodagalvyte – Education and Information Technologies, 2025
The demand to incorporate informatics into primary education is seen as a critical necessity both today, and for the future of modern societies. Numerous countries are currently revising their primary education curricula in order to incorporate informatics concepts and computational thinking skills. Although many successful initiatives have been…
Descriptors: Elementary School Curriculum, Elementary School Students, Elementary School Teachers, Elementary Education
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Thomas, Angela Falter; Vannatta Reinhart, Rachel – Clearing House: A Journal of Educational Strategies, Issues and Ideas, 2014
Because of the Common Core State Standards there is a renewed emphasis on the importance of visual literacies in today's classrooms. Students need prior knowledge before approaching these types of texts. This article describes the results of one 6th-grade language arts class's engagement in pre-reading prior to viewing a theatrical…
Descriptors: Classroom Techniques, State Standards, Language Arts, Prior Learning
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Hoadley, Ursula; Muller, Johan – Curriculum Journal, 2016
Why has large-scale standardised testing attracted such a bad press? Why has pedagogic benefit to be derived from test results been downplayed? The paper investigates this question by first surveying the pros and cons of testing in the literature, and goes on to examine educators' responses to standardised, large-scale tests in a sample of low…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Standardized Tests, Developing Nations, Visual Discrimination