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Direct linkQing Guo; Huan Li; Sha Zhu – Journal of Educational Computing Research, 2024
Previous research has not adequately explored students' behavioral processes when addressing computational thinking (CT) problems of varying difficulty, limiting insights into students' detailed CT development characteristics. This study seeks to fill this gap by employing gamified CT items across multiple difficulty levels to calculate…
Descriptors: Computation, Thinking Skills, Student Behavior, Difficulty Level
Download full textErdogan, Fatma; Gül, Neslihan – Pegem Journal of Education and Instruction, 2020
This study aimed to investigate the mathematical problem posing skills of gifted students. The participants of the study, designed as a case study, were 55 middle school students (20 sixth grade, 17 seventh grade, 18 eighth grade) who were studying at Science and Art Center in a city in the Eastern Anatolia region. Data were collected through a…
Descriptors: Academically Gifted, Problem Solving, Mathematics Skills, Early Adolescents
Sullivan, Samantha DeHaan – ProQuest LLC, 2019
This dissertation reports the results of a research project that examined the effects of varying rates of reinforcement on students' math performance and assignment preference. The relationship between students' instructional level and the rate of reinforcement threshold for influencing assignment preference was also explored. Participants were…
Descriptors: Mathematics Achievement, Reinforcement, Mathematics Instruction, Assignments
Hiebert, Elfrieda H.; Scott, Judith A.; Castaneda, Ruben; Spichtig, Alexandra – Education Sciences, 2019
The two studies reported on in this paper examine the features of words that distinguish students' performances on vocabulary assessments as a means of understanding what contributes to the ease or difficulty of vocabulary knowledge. The two studies differ in the type of assessment, the types of words that were studied, and the grade levels and…
Descriptors: Difficulty Level, English Language Learners, Elementary School Students, Secondary School Students
Kohnen, Saskia; Colenbrander, Danielle; Krajenbrink, Trudy; Nickels, Lyndsey – Australian Journal of Learning Difficulties, 2015
The main aim of this study was to develop standardised tests that assess some of the most important spelling skills for children in primary school: sound-letter mappings (non-lexical spelling) and word spelling accuracy (lexical spelling). We present normative comparison data for children in Grades 1-7 as well as measures of validity and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Standardized Tests, Spelling, Primary Education
The Effects of Student and Text Characteristics on the Oral Reading Fluency of Middle-Grade Students
Barth, Amy E.; Tolar, Tammy D.; Fletcher, Jack M.; Francis, David – Journal of Educational Psychology, 2014
We evaluated the effects of student characteristics (sight word reading efficiency, phonological decoding, verbal knowledge, level of reading ability, grade, gender) and text features (passage difficulty, length, genre, and language and discourse attributes) on the oral reading fluency of a sample of middle-school students in Grades 6-8 (N =…
Descriptors: Oral Reading, Reading Fluency, Middle School Students, Reading Difficulties
