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Luisa Losada-Puente; Raúl Fraguela-Vale; Alejandra Facal – International Electronic Journal of Elementary Education, 2024
The aim was to explore the literature for instruments that assess school well-being, identifying their design features and construct appropriateness. A systematic review was conducted using the Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses (PRISMA) 2020, and the PICO strategy to formulate the research questions. Fifty-two…
Descriptors: Well Being, Elementary Education, Elementary School Students, Measurement Techniques
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Stearns, Clio – Schools: Studies in Education, 2013
This article examines the idea of loss in relation to elementary education. The goal is to show the importance of teachers attending to their students' individual experience and, in particular, to the ways schools can make children feel lost or found. The article relies primarily on classroom narratives, focusing heavily on stories about one…
Descriptors: Learning Disabilities, Elementary Education, Classroom Environment, Psychiatry
Roth, Henry J.; Ward-Alexander, Lucia A. – Educational and Psychological Research, 1985
The researchers devised a system for classifying earliest school recollections (ESRs). To determine the validity of this system, judges classified 100 third- and fourth-grade public school students according to their earliest school recollections. A statistically significant agreement was found between judges' and teachers' classifications of…
Descriptors: Behavior Patterns, Educational Experience, Elementary Education, Interviews
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Sigafoos, Jeff; O'Reilly, Mark; Ma, Chia Hui; Edrisinha, Chaturi; Cannella, Helen; Lancioni, Giulio E. – Journal of Intellectual and Developmental Disability, 2006
Background: Embedded instruction and discrete-trial training are both recommended for teaching children with autism, but there is little research available comparing the two. The present study compared embedded instruction with discrete-trial training for a 12-year-old boy with autism. Method: An initial functional analysis indicated that the…
Descriptors: Psychological Patterns, Autism, Self Destructive Behavior, Teaching Methods
Brophy, Jere; Rohrkemper, Mary – 1989
Experienced elementary teachers (N=98) described their general strategies for coping with failure syndrome students and told how they would handle incidents depicted in two vignettes portraying failure syndrome problems at school. Compared to their responses concerning some of the other problem student types addressed in the Classroom Strategy…
Descriptors: Academic Failure, Cognitive Restructuring, Elementary Education, Helplessness
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De Civita, Mirella – Reclaiming Children and Youth: The Journal of Strength-based Interventions, 2006
Much resilience research highlights protective factors that prevent risk. Here the author focuses on resilience as the ability to recover from psychological harm. The strength-based view sees resilience as a transformational experience. One applicant of this approach is the Phoenix Intervention Program for Children (PIPC) which combines concepts…
Descriptors: Prevention, Risk, Child Rearing, Therapy
Parfenoff, Sheila H.; Jose, Paul E. – 1989
A study of school-age children was designed to: (1) identify hassles that children experience in their families, among peers, and at school; (2) determine the ability of hassles to predict unhealthy psychological and physical functioning; and (3) explore the effect of daily hassles on school behavior. A measure of children's daily stress that used…
Descriptors: Anxiety, Elementary Education, Elementary School Students, Interpersonal Competence
Damico, Sandra Bowman; Scott, Elois – 1985
This report reviews studies on social interactions in desegregated schools and synthesizes reports on differences in the experience of schooling of black females as compared to schooling of white females. The literature on the subject, though sparse, indicates that in the early grades both white and black females have a lot in common, despite some…
Descriptors: Black Students, Elementary Education, Females, Friendship
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Freeman, Evelyn B. – Childhood Education, 1985
Identifies how divorce affect's children's classroom performance and offers suggestions and resource list for teachers. Particulary discussed are four most common characteristics of children experiencing divorce and teacher's role in promoting an empathetic teacher-student relationship. (DST)
Descriptors: Behavior Change, Coping, Divorce, Elementary Education
Winne, Philip H.; Marx, Ronald W. – 1983
Research is reported on the cognitive mediational paradigm which postulates that teachers influence students' learning by causing them to think and behave in particular ways during teaching. Four studies are reported. The first describes five teachers and their students and explores, in classroom lessons, the cognitive processes students used in…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Behavioral Objectives, Cognitive Processes, Elementary Education
James, Gordon B. – 1984
This study investigated the potential relationships between selected self-reported health behaviors of middle school students and interacting factors, including parents, family life, social networks, and society at large. Sixth grade students (n=103) responded to five survey instruments: (1) Standard Albuquerque Public Schools Health Knowledge…
Descriptors: Drug Abuse, Elementary Education, Exercise, Grade 6
Koester, Lynne S.; Farley, Frank H. – 1980
Ninety-eight first grade children were observed and tested on measures of classroom behavior, task performance, and physiological arousal level. In general, sex differences were found to be minimal, and were significant on only three out of the eighteen variables investigated. Results indicated that males were rated by teachers and observers as…
Descriptors: Aggression, Arousal Patterns, Behavior Patterns, Behavior Rating Scales
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Maliphant, Rodney; And Others – Educational Psychology: An International Journal of Experimental Educational Psychology, 1990
Presents results of study of British elementary school boys aged seven to nine, comparing disruptive behavior to heart rate. Distinguishes this study from earlier ones that found relationship between low base heart rates and low reactivity to mild stress among high school boys. Reports that this study disproves prediction that results would be…
Descriptors: Behavior Problems, Behavior Rating Scales, Behavioral Science Research, Elementary Education
Berkson, Esther M. – Online Submission, 2005
Numerous years in several New York City elementary and nursery schools resulted in this article, which investigates teachers' emotions, specifically vulnerable feelings, related to their work. Often, teachers are quiet about their struggles, not wanting anyone else to know that they struggle, not wanting to expose their vulnerability. However,…
Descriptors: Teaching Conditions, Early Childhood Education, Elementary Education, Emotional Response
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Hansen, Donald A. – American Journal of Education, 1989
In a three-year study, each of 193 students was seen to employ lesson evading and lesson dissembling, as well as lesson engaging and lesson rejecting, in situations that were confusing, threatening, or boring. Choice of lesson tactic and frequency of employment varied widely. Implications for theory, research, and practice are discussed.…
Descriptors: Classroom Communication, Classroom Environment, Classroom Research, Educational Strategies