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Can "Philosophy for Children" Improve Primary School Attainment?
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Gorard, Stepehn; Siddiqui, Nadia; See, Beng Huat – Journal of Philosophy of Education, 2017
There are tensions within formal education between imparting knowledge and the development of skills for handling that knowledge. In the primary school sector, the latter can also be squeezed out of the curriculum by a focus on basic skills such as literacy and numeracy. What happens when an explicit attempt is made to develop young children's…
Descriptors: Philosophy, Children, Primary Education, Abstract Reasoning
Direct Instruction and Music Literacy: One Approach to Augmenting the Diminishing?
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Lowe, Geoffrey; Belcher, Steven – Australian Journal of Music Education, 2012
One of the many challenges facing music educators is diminishing class time in lower secondary school in the face of the increasingly crowded curriculum and the advent of arts "taster" courses. However, music educators are still expected to be able to produce musically literate students capable of completing high level music courses in…
Descriptors: Intervention, Secondary School Students, Literacy, Music Education
Increasing Community College Basic Skills English Instructors' Use of Autonomy Supportive Instruction to Impact Students' Perceptions of Autonomy and Engagement
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Clabaugh, Dionne Janice – ProQuest LLC, 2013
There is concern in California community colleges about student success because persistence rates have decreased and graduation rates have declined. Basic skills students are underserved and underprepared, and their success rates are lower than traditional students. Nine California Community College Student Success Task Force recommendations were…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Basic Skills, Quasiexperimental Design, English Instruction
An Exploration of Leadership and Campus Cultural Orientation in a California Community College
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Cervantes, Eduardo – ProQuest LLC, 2013
There is concern in California community colleges about student success because persistence rates have decreased and graduation rates have declined. Basic skills students are underserved and underprepared, and their success rates are lower than traditional students. Nine California Community College Student Success Task Force recommendations were…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Two Year Colleges, Cultural Influences, English Teachers
The Effects of Computerized Instruction and Systematic Presentation and Review of Math Fact Acquisition and Fluency
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Reynolds, Jennifer L. – ProQuest LLC, 2010
Cross country investigations have repeatedly demonstrated the disappointing math performance of students in the United States (Beatty, 1997; Ferrini-Mundy & Schmidt, 2005). The National Council of Teachers of Mathematics (2000) listed failure to rapidly recall basic facts as a common problem associated with disabilities in mathematics and…
Descriptors: Control Groups, Research Design, Investigations, Intervention
Developing Math Automaticity Using a Classwide Fluency Building Procedure for Middle School Students: A Preliminary Study
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Axtell, Philip K.; McCallum, R. Steve; Bell, Sherry Mee; Poncy, Brian – Psychology in the Schools, 2008
To investigate the influence of an innovative math fluency intervention, 36 middle-school students were randomly assigned to either an experimental (the Detect, Practice, Repair [DPR]) or control condition (reading intervention). After covarying pretest scores, the DPR treatment produced a significantly higher (p = 0.016) adjusted mean (M) math…
Descriptors: Control Groups, Intervention, Psychologists, School Psychologists