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Hast, Michael – Science Education, 2016
Within the discussion of the development of commonsense theories of motion, recent research has established that throughout middle childhood, reasoning about motion down inclines changes with increasing age. To investigate this shift in more detail, this study investigated 5- to 11-year-old children's understanding of motion down curved slopes,…
Descriptors: Children, Motion, Comparative Analysis, Models
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Oakland, Thomas; Douglas, Sara; Kane, Harrison – Journal of Psychoeducational Assessment, 2016
This article provides a 24-year update on the 10 standardized tests used most frequently with children and youth by school psychologists. Data were acquired from 64 countries through an international survey, with one respondent from each country. The informants were solicited due to their expertise in the area of assessment. The data from the…
Descriptors: Standardized Tests, School Psychologists, Followup Studies, International Assessment
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Souza, Jusamara – Action, Criticism, and Theory for Music Education, 2011
The place of popular and multifunctional media in the musical life of young people has been addressed in several studies. Music can aid in understanding youth cultures through the identification of musical preferences: inform about new lifestyles, fashions, ways of acting, work as motivation for personal dreams and aspirations, and build…
Descriptors: Working Class, Music Education, Music, Homeless People
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Cross, Donna; Epstein, Melanie; Hearn, Lydia; Slee, Phillip; Shaw, Therese; Monks, Helen – International Journal of Behavioral Development, 2011
In 2003 Australia was one of the first countries to develop an integrated national policy, called the National Safe Schools Framework (NSSF), for the prevention and management of violence, bullying, and other aggressive behaviors. The effectiveness of this framework has not yet been formally evaluated. Cross-sectional data collected in 2007 from…
Descriptors: Bullying, Foreign Countries, Barriers, School Safety
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Gerrard, Jessica – Gender and Education, 2011
This paper compares the ways in which gender was articulated and experienced through the construction of children's education in two very different community-led educational initiatives in Britain: turn-of-the-century Socialist Sunday Schools and late-twentieth-century Black Supplementary Schools. Exploration of these historical examples of…
Descriptors: Educational Practices, Sexual Identity, Masculinity, Comparative Analysis
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Didden, Robert; de Moor, Jan M. H.; Korzilius, Hubert – Research in Developmental Disabilities: A Multidisciplinary Journal, 2009
Children with epilepsy are at risk for problems in daytime functioning. We assessed daytime sleepiness, on-task behavior and attention in 17 children (aged between 7 and 11 years) with epilepsy who visited a school for special education and compared these to 17 children from a control group who visited a regular school. Within the group of…
Descriptors: Control Groups, Epilepsy, Sleep, Educational Practices
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Jitendra, Asha K.; DuPaul, George J.; Someki, Fumio; Tresco, Katy E. – Developmental Disabilities Research Reviews, 2008
Although children with Attention-Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) exhibit significant academic difficulties in school settings, considerably less attention is devoted to remediating their academic problems when compared to behavioral and social difficulties. The purpose of this article is to review empirically supported academic interventions…
Descriptors: Evidence, Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder, Phonological Awareness, Educational Practices
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Wilson, Linda; Andrew, Carolyn; Sourikova, Svetlana – British Educational Research Journal, 2001
Presents study results that compared the content and structure of mathematics lessons in Sunderland, England, and St. Petersburg, Russia, to identify similarities between the lessons. Explains that classroom observation was used within the study. Explores such issues as lesson length, number, and length of sections. Includes references. (CMK)
Descriptors: Children, Comparative Analysis, Comparative Education, Educational Practices