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Snyder, Kailey; Dinkel, Danae; Schaffer, Connie; Hiveley, Seth; Colpitts, Amanda – International Journal of Research in Education and Science, 2017
Classroom physical activity (PA) has been linked to a multitude of health and academic benefits. However, due to barriers such as lack of time and resources many teachers are not implementing classroom PA to the degree they would like to. One innovative solution is to integrate classroom PA into academic concepts. Based on self-determination…
Descriptors: Class Activities, Physical Activities, Integrated Activities, Mathematics Education
Gorard, Stephen; See, Beng Huat; Siddiqui, Nadia – Education Endowment Foundation, 2014
This pilot project focused on improving teachers' understanding and use of effective feedback. Participating teachers tried to incorporate feedback into their lessons to help pupils understand their learning goals and become able to develop strategies to reach them. The project employed a cyclical action research design, through which teachers…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Parochial Schools, Partnerships in Education, Feedback (Response)
McNally, Sandra – Education Endowment Foundation, 2014
The Hampshire Hundreds project was a local authority-led intervention which brought together lead teachers from Hampshire primary schools to provide them with evidence and support for effective teaching strategies to decrease the attainment gap between disadvantaged pupils (aged 9-11) and their peers. The intervention involved a facilitator…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Elementary School Teachers, Intervention, Instructional Effectiveness
Sloat, Elizabeth A.; Beswick, Joan F.; Willms, J. Douglas – Phi Delta Kappan, 2007
Most children who do not learn to read during the primary grades will probably never learn to read well. Children who reach the end of third grade with low literacy skills typically have less access to the regular curriculum, require long-term support, and fall further behind their peers in literacy achievement and curricular knowledge. However,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Early Intervention, Reading Difficulties, Identification
Ponza, Michael; Briefel, Ronette; Corson, Walter; Devaney, Barbara; Glazerman, Steven; Gleason, Philip; Heaviside, Sheila; Kung, Susanna; Meckstroth, Alicia; Murphy, J. Michael; Ohls, Jim – 1999
The Child Nutrition Act of 1998 authorized demonstration pilot projects in up to six school food authorities and a rigorous evaluation to assess the effects of providing free school breakfasts to elementary school children. This report describes the evaluation strategy and data collection plans. Part 1 of the report provides background…
Descriptors: Breakfast Programs, Children, Elementary Education, Elementary School Students
Wilson, Jeni – 1997
This paper is concerned with the assessability of metacognition, asserting that unless metacognition can be assessed, then it will never be considered a legitimate part of curriculum. The paper focuses on a pilot study conducted with grade-six students in the curriculum domain of mathematics. It reports the results of student questionnaires and…
Descriptors: Definitions, Educational Assessment, Elementary School Students, Evaluation Methods
Paulson, F. Leon; Paulson, Pearl R. – 1994
A theory of portfolio assembly is presented and used to guide analysis of portfolios. Features of a portfolio evaluation approach known as the Cognitive Model for Assessing Portfolios (CMAP) are outlined. This model assumes that portfolios begin as relatively simple collections and gradually grow into complex, articulate stories of knowing. It is…
Descriptors: Educational Assessment, Elementary School Students, Evaluation Methods, Grade 2
MacDonald, Margery A. – 1972
A pilot research study searched for appropriate methods to evaluate instructional television (ITV). The specific objectives were to find ways to measure: 1) the degree to which the media presentation's objectives were being met, and 2) the appeal of the show, as judged by viewers' attention. Five intermediate grade level educable mentally retarded…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Attention, Educational Television, Elementary School Students
Thomas, David – 1990
The experience of an elementary school implementing the Touchstones Program--an approach to assessment within the proposed National Curriculum (NC) in England--is described, after which teacher reaction to the NC and fundamental beliefs about the nature of education are considered. The Touchstones assessment consist of 10 cross-curricular group…
Descriptors: British National Curriculum, Curriculum Development, Curriculum Evaluation, Educational Assessment
Gnach, Aleksandra; Wiesner, Esther; Bertschi-Kaufmann, Andrea; Perrin, Daniel – Research in Comparative and International Education, 2007
Children and young people are increasingly performing a variety of writing tasks using computers, with word processing programs thus becoming their natural writing environment. The development of keystroke logging programs enables us to track the process of writing, without changing the writing environment for the writers. In the myMoment schools…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Childrens Writing, Writing Processes, Writing Instruction
Baxter, Gail P.; And Others – 1994
The degree to which performance assessments meet their dual mandate to evaluate student learning and inform instructional practice is not adequately addressed through traditional concerns for reliability and validity. A possible approach is suggested for examining the cognitive activity students engage in during a performance assessment. The…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Cognitive Psychology, Educational Assessment, Educational Practices
Silvernail, David L.; Small, Dorothy; Walker, Leanne; Wilson, Richard L.; Wintle, Sarah E. – Center for Education Policy, Applied Research, and Evaluation, 2008
As everyone enters the 21st Century there is a great deal of discussion in business and education circles alike about the type of skills the youth will need to survive and thrive in this century. At the same time, there is little known today about the level of 21st Century skills students currently have. In part this is because, as a nation,…
Descriptors: Educational Testing, Outcomes of Education, Scoring Rubrics, Teaching Guides

Still, Jacquelyn H. – Florida Journal of Educational Research, 1985
A curriculum guide and suggested instructional resource materials were developed for a school district program in computer literacy for kindergarten through grade 8. The program was piloted with 43 teachers in 9 elementary schools and 1 junior high school in 1984 in the Orange County (Florida) School District. A structured response questionnaire…
Descriptors: Achievement Gains, Computer Literacy, Computer Science Education, Elementary Education
Butler, Frances A.; And Others – 1990
This study, part of a larger effort to develop a methodology for evaluating intelligent computer systems (Artificial Intelligence Systems), explores the use of benchmarking as an evaluation technique. Benchmarking means comparing the performance of intelligent computer systems with human performance on the same task. Benchmarking in evaluation has…
Descriptors: Adults, Artificial Intelligence, Benchmarking, Comparative Analysis