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Peer reviewedSilver, Edward A.; Thompson, Alba G. – Elementary School Journal, 1984
Discusses five research areas offering guidance to people concerned about teaching problem solving in elementary schools. Areas are (1) components of problem difficulty; (2) the contribution of reading difficulties to problem-solving deficiencies; (3) characteristics of successful problem solvers; (4) children's use of problem-solving techniques…
Descriptors: Comprehension, Difficulty Level, Elementary Education, Mathematics Education
Peer reviewedMcCurdy, Merilee; Skinner, Christopher H.; Grantham, Kay; Watson, T. Steuart; Hindman, Peggy M. – School Psychology Review, 2001
An alternating treatments design was used to evaluate the effects of the interspersal procedure on an elementary student who was referred to a school psychologist for high rates of off-task behavior during independent seatwork. Results showed that the procedure increased the student's on-task levels during classroom mathematics assignments.…
Descriptors: Behavior Modification, Behavior Problems, Difficulty Level, Elementary Education
Peer reviewedThomas, John W. – Review of Educational Research, 1980
Studies in self-management, attribution, and achievement motivation challenge the view that basic skills instruction requires strong teacher control, structure, convergence on learning activities, less pupil freedom, and less experimental teaching activities. Student-managed instruction yielded the greatest achievement gains and heightened…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Attribution Theory, Basic Skills, Behavior Modification
Bolden, Bernadine J.; Stoddard, Ann – 1980
This study examined the effect of two ways of question phrasing as related to three styles of expository writing on the test performance of elementary school children. Multiple-choice questions were developed for sets of passages which were written using three different syntactic structures; and which had different levels of difficulty. The…
Descriptors: Difficulty Level, Elementary Education, Kernel Sentences, Multiple Choice Tests
Peer reviewedKessler, Carolyn; Quinn, Mary Ellen – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 1987
Discusses findings from an empirical investigation of the effects of bilingualism (Spanish-English) on the creativity of language minority children in terms of the cognitive processes of divergent and convergent thinking, and the linguistic process of metaphorizing in the context of formulating scientific hypotheses. (Author/CB)
Descriptors: Bilingualism, Child Language, Cognitive Processes, Communicative Competence (Languages)
Download full textStewart, David A.; And Others – 1990
This literature review examines selected variables that may influence teachers' ability to read books to preschool and elementary deaf children in total communication programs. The paper explores the role of signs in reading stories and factors influencing the signability of stories, including reading rate, length of sentences, length of text used…
Descriptors: American Sign Language, Classroom Techniques, Deafness, Difficulty Level
