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A Systematic Review of Research on Creative Thinking in Primary Education: Focus on Empirical Methodologies
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Smare, Zaina; Elfatihi, Mohamed – Issues in Educational Research, 2023
This article reviews the methodologies used in 76 empirical studies conducted on creative thinking in primary school education and published between 2011 and 2021. The studies were analysed for their context, foci of investigation and the methodologies used. Each study was coded and analysed quantitatively and qualitatively. The findings are…
Descriptors: Research Methodology, Creative Thinking, Foreign Countries, Elementary Education
When Is an Interview an Inter View? The Historical and Recent Development of Methodologies Used to Investigate Children's Astronomy Knowledge
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Blown, Eric J.; Bryce, Tom G. K. – Research in Science Education, 2022
This paper provides a historical review of the interview research that has been used by science educators to investigate children's basic astronomy knowledge. A wide range of strategies have been developed over the last 120 years or so as successive teams of researchers have endeavoured to overcome the methodological difficulties that have arisen.…
Descriptors: Interviews, Research Methodology, Science Education, Science Teachers
Early Bilingual Reading.
Titone, Renzo – Prospects, 1985
This discussion reviews literature on early bilingualism and early reading in two languages and summarizes a research project aimed at developing the experimental conditions for teaching early bilingual reading in institutional settings. The review notes positive effects of early reading generally and of early bilingual literacy on intellectual…
Descriptors: Bilingual Education, Bilingualism, Classroom Techniques, Cognitive Development
The Ideal Self and Cognitive Development in Adolescence
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Manaster, Guy J.; And Others – Adolescence, 1977
Investigates the relationship between cognitive developmental level and the ideal self in adolescence, sampling 223 male and female 12- and 13-, and 15- and 16-year-old working and middle class English comprehensive school students, hypothesizing that maturity of the ideal self would be related to cognitive development. (Author/RK)
Descriptors: Adolescents, Cognitive Development, Developmental Stages, Educational Research
Phasing in Career Education Systematically (PICES) Project, 1975-1976. Final Report.
Education Service Center Region 10, Dallas, TX. – 1976
The design of the Phasing in Career Education Systematically (PICES) project was based on two data centered systems, sequencing and needs assessment. Four Texas independent school districts participated in the project which directly involved 986 students, 69 teachers, and 27 administrators. Some of the major activities conducted in each district…
Descriptors: Attitudes, Career Education, Cognitive Development, Curriculum Development
Do Principals Make a Difference? The Relationship Between Principal-Related Variables and Student Outcomes in IGE Schools. Technical Report No. 492.
Johnson, Helen Watt – 1978
The purpose of this study was to determine whether or not the elementary school principal has an impact on the outcomes of schooling manifested by students and, if so, to determine the nature of the role of the principal in influencing cognitive and affective outcomes manifested by students. The three sets of principal-related variables used were…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Administrator Role, Affective Behavior, Cognitive Development