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Osterbye, Renee R. – ProQuest LLC, 2016
Reading is key in all aspects of education and improving reading instruction continues to be an issue of national focus. Although there is considerable research on the nature of teaching reading from a variety of viewpoints, little has focused on student perspectives, particularly at younger levels. The purpose of this case study is to describe…
Descriptors: Reading Instruction, Early Reading, Reading Improvement, Student Attitudes
Gonczi, Amanda; Maeng, Jennifer; Bell, Randy – Journal of Technology and Teacher Education, 2017
The purpose of this study was to characterize and compare 64 elementary science teachers' computer simulation use prior to and following professional development (PD) aligned with Innovation Adoption Theory. The PD highlighted computer simulation affordances that elementary teachers might find particularly useful. Qualitative and quantitative…
Descriptors: Elementary School Teachers, Faculty Development, Inquiry, Active Learning
Woodard, Rebecca; Machado, Emily – Journal of Digital Learning in Teacher Education, 2017
Using ethnographic methods, this article looks closely at how a team of first-grade teachers and digital media artists in an urban elementary school used video in innovative ways during professional development over the course of one year. Extending a body of literature that primarily documents how video can be used as a tool in professional…
Descriptors: Video Technology, Ethnography, Faculty Development, Elementary School Teachers
Hammer, Anne Synnøve Ekrene; He, Min – European Early Childhood Education Research Journal, 2016
This comparative study examines the way in which preschool teachers support children's science learning in a Chinese and a Norwegian kindergarten. The study takes an ethnographic approach. Preschool teachers from one kindergarten in Shanghai and one in Bergen were asked to videotape educational activities that focused on science in their…
Descriptors: Preschool Teachers, Kindergarten, Comparative Education, Comparative Analysis
McCarthey, Sarah J.; Kang, Grace – Early Child Development and Care, 2017
The study focused on two kindergarten teachers who were observed and interviewed throughout one school year. The contrasting cases demonstrate how two teachers drew upon their experiences with teaching writing and professional development (PD) with differing outcomes for their instruction and underlying beliefs about writing. Dana, an experienced…
Descriptors: Writing Instruction, Kindergarten, Preschool Teachers, Case Studies
Kumpulainen, Kristiina; Theron, Linda; Kahl, Carlien; Bezuidenhout, Carla; Mikkola, Anna; Salmi, Saara; Khumalo, Tumi; Uusitalo-Malmivaara, Lotta – School Psychology International, 2016
This article presents a comparative case study on the ways in which children's school ecologies facilitate their adjusting positively to first grade in risk-filled contexts in South Africa and Finland. The insights of two children (one South African, one Finnish) from socio-economically disadvantaged communities, their teachers, parents and…
Descriptors: Student Adjustment, Comparative Analysis, Case Studies, At Risk Students
Hursen, Cigdem; Salaz, Dursun – Cypriot Journal of Educational Sciences, 2016
The purpose of this study is to investigate the effects of authentic childhood games in teaching English. The study group of the research consists of 43 5-year-old kindergarten students. The study was carried out in the first semester of 2014-2015 academic year. An experimental method was used in this study to state the effects of teaching English…
Descriptors: Kindergarten, Educational Games, Second Language Instruction, English (Second Language)
Hunt, Jessica H.; Welch-Ptak, Jasmine J.; Silva, Juanita M. – Learning Disability Quarterly, 2016
Documenting how students with learning disabilities (LD) initially conceive of fractional quantities, and how their understandings may align with or differ from students with mathematics difficulties, is necessary to guide development of assessments and interventions that attach to unique ways of thinking or inherent difficulties these students…
Descriptors: Learning Disabilities, Fractions, Mathematical Concepts, Concept Formation
Agoston, Anna M.; Rudolph, Karen D. – Journal of Early Adolescence, 2016
Exposure to peer stress contributes to adolescent depression, yet not all youth experience these effects. Thus, it is important to identify individual differences that shape the consequences of peer stress. This research investigated the interactive contribution of cumulative peer stress during childhood (second-fifth grades) and executive…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Executive Function, Depression (Psychology), Questionnaires
Sahin, Elif Adibelli; Deniz, Hasan – International Journal of Environmental and Science Education, 2016
This study explored how four elementary teachers assessed the developmental appropriateness and importance of nine nature of science (NOS) aspects after participating in a yearlong professional development program. A multiple-embedded case study design was employed. The primary data sources included (a) Views of Nature of Science Elementary School…
Descriptors: Teacher Attitudes, Developmentally Appropriate Practices, Scientific Principles, Case Studies
Barrett-Tatum, Jennifer – Education Policy Analysis Archives, 2015
The English Language Arts Common Core State Standards and corresponding assessments brought about many changes for educators, their literacy instruction, and the literacy learning of their students. This study examined the day-to-day literacy instruction of two primary grade teachers during their first year of full CCSS implementation. Engestr?m's…
Descriptors: Academic Standards, State Standards, Alignment (Education), Language Arts
Jayavant, Sharona – Education Sciences, 2016
This empirical research is about strengths-based leadership practices that seek to explore leadership for social justice and equity in New Zealand's culturally and linguistically diverse educational and social landscape. Similar to the diversity in other countries, where leaders demonstrate culturally responsive leadership practices in their quest…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Instructional Leadership, Instructional Effectiveness, Social Justice
Arikan, Elif Esra; Unal, Hasan – European Journal of Science and Mathematics Education, 2014
The purpose of this study was to introduce problem posing activity to third grade students who have never met before. This study was also explored students' metaphorical images on problem posing process. Participants were from Public school in Marmara Region in Turkey. Data was analyzed both qualitatively (content analysis for difficulty and…
Descriptors: Grade 3, Elementary School Students, Figurative Language, Public Schools
Huang, SuHua – Reading Psychology, 2015
A mixed-method embedded research design was employed to investigate the effectiveness of the integration of technology for second-grade students' vocabulary development and learning. Two second-grade classes with a total of 40 students (21 boys and 19 girls) were randomly selected to participate in this study for the course of a semester. One…
Descriptors: Mixed Methods Research, Technology Integration, Instructional Effectiveness, Elementary School Students
May, Henry; Gray, Abigail; Sirinides, Philip; Goldsworthy, Heather; Armijo, Michael; Sam, Cecile; Gillespie, Jessica N.; Tognatta, Namrata – American Educational Research Journal, 2015
Reading Recovery (RR) is a short-term, one-to-one intervention designed to help the lowest achieving readers in first grade. This article presents first-year results from the multisite randomized controlled trial (RCT) and implementation study under the $55 million Investing in Innovation (i3) Scale-Up Project. For the 2011-2012 school year, the…
Descriptors: Reading Programs, Reading Instruction, Intervention, Grade 1
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