Describes the Situation in the Primary School (SIPRI) project, a study of the purpose of pedagogy and the role of primary schools in Sweden. The subprojects and the role of the contact schools that will serve as a field of observation and experimentation are summarized. Brief critical comments are included. (SR)

This paper describes the way in which a child is introduced to LOGO, which is both a programming language and an environment or a way of thinking about computers and about learning. After a brief description of the devices used by LOGO, the process of acquainting a student with the system is explained. The strong anthropomorphization of components…

The present study is a replication of the initial use of the Teams-Games-Tournament (TGT) technique in the primary grades. TGT is a classroom management technique in which (1) students are placed on four member teams; (2) the student teams compete in regularly scheduled tournaments; and (3) the tournaments are structured around instructional…

Presents development and preliminary results of a research project evaluating a curriculum guide developed by the National Association for the Advancement of Humane Education. Activities included humane education along with concepts and skills in language arts, social studies, science, and mathematics. Results are mixed with more impact on early…

The aim of this monograph is to describe a program of research investigating the problem-solving responses of young children and to present in summary form the results of the analyses completed so far. Attention is given to characteristics of clinical studies which are thought to make the clinical method particularly useful with young children.…

Describes a collaborative effort between an elementary school teacher and a university researcher to conduct joint research in content area reading. Discusses the advantages of such a collaborative project, as well as what the teacher and the researcher both learned. (HTH)

An ongoing study has found that the "basics" in contemporary educational theory are actually the smallest, most easily isolated and most easily testable fragments of knowledge in a discipline--abstractions produced by complex analysis. The project is exploring an alternative version of "basicness" in which the complex, often ambiguous realm of a…

Discusses school programs and practices that prevent or remedy problem behavior in elementary school students by enlisting volunteers to provide caring relationships and extend the support base for meeting student needs. Describes planned research to document program outcomes as well as the experiences of participants in such activities, and to…

This report contains brief descriptions of 37 published and unpublished works and ongoing studies produced by a project designed to investigate the ways in which both children and adults comprehend and remember connected discourse. Among the topics of the published works, which include articles, book chapters, and a book, are the following: story…

Using 280 5th graders as subjects, an experiment was carried out to answer the following questions: (1) do certain indentified television formats have effects on cognition? (2) Is mastery of various cognitive skills correlated with extraction of knowledge from a television message which employs the corresponding format? It was hypothesized that:…

This report concerns public bilingual elementary schools for rural Indian (non-Spanish-speaking) children in Mexico. Materials production efforts as well as completed and projected research projects are described. (SJL)

Describes the year-long first phase of a research project by a group of teachers who made their own writing an object of inquiry to gain experience in reading and writing workshops. Describes how the experience helped them see the power of writing for themselves, and led to a better understanding of how to teach writing in their classrooms. (SR)

Addresses a research project on the achievement of children of Caribbean heritage in Britain. Describes the research on homes and on elucidating the processes of support for schooling by parents in the project. Examines what the parents did to promote their children's achievement. (CMK)

Details the process used by two teachers to translate multiple intelligence theory to classroom practice by preparing a transformational health curriculum for first-grade students. (ET)

To establish collaboration between theory and practice, between teaching and learning, and between researchers and teachers, a three-year project was initiated at Metcalf Laboratory School. Teachers were invited to explore reading comprehension and composition in their classrooms in a manner that supported unique teacher decision making and…