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Download full textJulia Shields Chrestay; Kyra Atterbury, Contributor; Janet Chance, Contributor; Stecy Mbemba, Contributor; Helena Miller, Contributor; Joe Alberti, Contributor; Sara Caselle, Contributor; Suzanne Cilli, Contributor; Katherine Collier, Contributor; Erica Darken, Contributor; Emily Goedde, Contributor; Rochelle Krauss, Contributor; Bernadine Magee, Contributor; Noga Newberg, Contributor; An Nguyen, Contributor; Candice Smith, Contributor – Penn GSE Perspectives on Urban Education, 2024
Need in Deed's work with Philadelphia public school teachers and their students centers empathy, informed investigation, and civic action. Bolstered by these values and with the support of the My Voice framework and dedicated Need in Deed staff, educators are equipped to co-create authentic classroom communities with their students. In Need in…
Descriptors: Intelligence, Citizen Participation, Public School Teachers, Empathy
Direct linkKreeta Niemi; Jaana Minkkinen; Anna-Maija Poikkeus – Educational Review, 2024
The present study focuses on views of Finnish basic education students on open and flexible learning environments and the extent to which these views are associated with students' liking of school. The data were based on an online questionnaire containing both structured ratings and open-ended questions filled out by primary school students (n =…
Descriptors: Educational Environment, Student Attitudes, Elementary School Students, Grade 2
Meishar-Tal, Hagit; Kesler, Avital – Interactive Learning Environments, 2023
This study describes an action research study conducted by a teacher who used a digital game generator as a tool to develop thinking skills among primary school students with learning difficulties. Ten 4th-grade students participated in the programme. The students met with the teacher twice a week for six months. The meetings included creating…
Descriptors: Elementary School Students, Grade 4, Learning Problems, Computer Games
Hulya Ermis-Demirtas; Nicole Rizzo – Professional School Counseling, 2024
Upper elementary students in a Title I rural school participated in an expressive arts-based resiliency small-group intervention entitled Resilient Warriors (RWs). This mixed-methods study revealed positive changes in participating students based on teacher ratings on the Strengths and Difficulties Questionnaire. We also found four qualitative…
Descriptors: Art Education, Resilience (Psychology), Intervention, Small Group Instruction
Chiang, Feng-Kuang; Chang, Chun-Hao; Wang, Shan; Cai, Rui-Heng; Li, Li – International Journal of Technology and Design Education, 2022
The study aimed to investigate the effect of an interdisciplinary STEM course on children's attitudes of learning and engineering design skills. A total of 449 elementary school children in China were recruited from three different grade levels (i.e., second, fourth and sixth grade) to participate in this study. All participants attended a weekly…
Descriptors: Interdisciplinary Approach, STEM Education, Student Attitudes, Elementary School Students
Gary K. W. Wong; Shan Jian; Ho-Yin Cheung – Education and Information Technologies, 2024
This study examined the developmental process of children's computational thinking using block-based programming tools, specifically algorithmic thinking and debugging skills. With this aim, a group of children (N = 191) from two primary schools were studied for two years beginning from the fourth grade, as they engaged in our block-based…
Descriptors: Thinking Skills, Skill Development, Computation, Algorithms
Yongzhi Zhou; Nirat Jantharajit; Sarit Srikhao – Asian Journal of Contemporary Education, 2025
This study scrutinizes the influence of project-based learning (PBL) and inquiry-based learning (IBL) on fourth graders' teamwork skills and critical thinking in math classes. A historical review reveals that while they have positive effects in multiple fields, their sole use in elementary math teaching is yet to be explored. 55 fourth-grade…
Descriptors: Active Learning, Student Projects, Inquiry, Teaching Methods
Eva Marie McCleary – ProQuest LLC, 2022
The increase in diagnoses of autism for elementary aged students paired with schools increasingly moving towards inclusive classroom models creates a challenge for general education teachers. This quantitative quasi-experimental study was designed to investigate the efficacy of an after school, explicit social skills intervention, and the impact…
Descriptors: Autism Spectrum Disorders, Students with Disabilities, Elementary School Students, Grade 2
Sarah R. Lewis – ProQuest LLC, 2021
Behavior problems among third- and fourth-grade students have become an issue of concern among stakeholders in the education sector. The purpose of this qualitative exploratory case study was to explore teachers' perceptions of Second Step, a socioemotional curriculum with practices used to address behaviors with third and fourth graders. The…
Descriptors: Teacher Attitudes, Grade 3, Grade 4, Social Emotional Learning
Mandlenkosi Sibanda; Hanlie Dippenaar; Amanda Swart – Reading & Writing: Journal of the Literacy Association of South Africa, 2024
Background: The high number of poor-performing learners in reading comprehension in South African schools is a concerning factor that calls for studies to mitigate this problem. The Progress in International Reading Literacy Study (PIRLS) of 2021 indicates that about 81% of South African Grade 4 learners who participated, failed to reach the…
Descriptors: Teacher Role, Grade 4, Reading Instruction, Reading Comprehension
Yin, Ming; Heard, Holly E.; Szabo, Julia; Ankoor, Nehemiah – Houston Education Research Consortium, 2021
In the fall of 2019, 3,355 10-year-old students in the Houston Independent School District (HISD) students participated in the Study on Social and Emotional Skills (SSES), part of an international effort led by the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), with Houston serving as the only U.S. site. This report provides a…
Descriptors: Social Emotional Learning, Social Development, Emotional Development, Skill Development
Bloom, Lorraine B.; Kettering, Tracy L.; Walker, Diana – Journal of Applied Behavior Analysis, 2020
We compared the effects of the effects of self-instructions in the form of prose or song lyrics in the acquisition of gross motor tasks in 4 third-grade children. We taught participants 4 pairs of gross motor tasks, with one task in each pair taught with prose self-instructions and the other taught with song lyric self-instructions. Both…
Descriptors: Grade 4, Elementary School Students, Singing, Motor Development
Regan, Kelley; Evmenova, Anya S.; Mergen, Reagan L.; Verbiest, Courtney; Hutchison, Amy; Murnan, Reagan; Field, Sara; Gafurov, Boris – Learning Disabilities Research & Practice, 2023
Rubrics can be used to give students targeted feedback on their writing and, therefore, teachers should be able to use them as a type of formative assessment to guide writing instruction. This article describes an exploratory study of how three teachers provided instruction for fourth, fifth, and seventh graders with learning disabilities and…
Descriptors: Grade 4, Grade 5, Grade 7, Elementary School Students
Saskia Schreiter; Markus Vogel – Educational Studies in Mathematics, 2025
The ability to interpret and compare data distributions is an important educational goal. Inherent in the statistical concept of distribution is the need to focus not only on individual data points or small groups of data points (so-called local view), but to perceive a distribution as a whole, allowing to recognize global features such as center,…
Descriptors: Eye Movements, Statistical Distributions, Data Interpretation, Data Analysis
Gary K. W. Wong – Education and Information Technologies, 2024
As block-based visual programming platform such as Scratch become more accessible and supportive to children's programming learning, the demand on understanding a trajectory of children's computational thinking development through programming from their early ages increases rapidly in recent years. To explore the developmental process of…
Descriptors: Computation, Problem Solving, Skill Development, Programming
