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van Aart, I.; Hartman, E.; Elferink-Gemser, M.; Mombarg, R.; Visscher, C. – Physical Education and Sport Pedagogy, 2017
Background: Many children aged 9-12 appear to have low levels of fundamental movement skills (FMS). Physical education (PE) is important because PE-teachers can teach children a variety of FMS and can influence PE-motivation. However, declined levels of PE-motivation are reported in the final grades of elementary school. Therefore, more insight in…
Descriptors: Psychological Needs, Physical Education, Preadolescents, Males
Astafan, Christine – Online Submission, 2011
Technology has become an important tool for today's teachers within their classrooms. The music field is experiencing that same importance. One tool that has been developed is "SmartMusic". The purpose of this research was to measure students' progression with rhythm using SmartMusic as an assessment tool to see if it actually benefits the…
Descriptors: Music Education, Music Teachers, Elementary School Teachers, Web Based Instruction
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Belenky, Daniel M.; Nokes, Timothy J. – Journal of Problem Solving, 2009
How does the type of learning material impact what is learned? The current research investigates the nature of students' learning of math concepts when using manipulatives (Uttal, Scudder, & DeLoache, 1997). We examined how the type of manipulative (concrete, abstract, none) and problem-solving prompt (metacognitive or problem-focused) affect…
Descriptors: Instructional Materials, Manipulative Materials, Mathematical Concepts, Metacognition