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Pasnak, Robert; Gagliano, Katrina; Righi, Matthew; Kidd, Julie K. – Grantee Submission, 2019
The effects of instructing kindergarten students (five-year-old in their first year of public school) on patterning were tested. Up to nine students in each class were randomly assigned to three groups in each of six classes, i.e., as many as three from a class in each group. One group received instruction on complex patterns similar to those…
Descriptors: Scores, Teaching Methods, Literacy Education, Mathematics Instruction
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Kidd, Julie K.; Gadzichowski, K. Marinka; Gallington, Deb A.; Lopez, Claudia; Pasnak, Robert – Society for Research on Educational Effectiveness, 2013
In early elementary school in most English-speaking countries children are taught "patterning," which involves learning repetitive patterns of colors or shapes (e.g., red, blue, green, red, blue, green). The present study was designed to test the effectiveness of patterning instruction when compared to equal amounts of instruction in…
Descriptors: Grade 1, Elementary School Students, Elementary School Teachers, Pattern Recognition