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Stolt, Harold E. – 1970
The purpose of this study was to determine the effect of inservice training in individual reading conferences and interaction analysis on the individual reading conferences conducted by elementary school teachers in the intermediate grades. Fourteen public school teachers were divided into an experimental and control group. The experimental group…
Descriptors: Individualized Reading, Inservice Teacher Education, Interaction Process Analysis, Intermediate Grades
Dalton, Robin; Lynch, William W. – 1974
Compared was the relative effectiveness of two teacher questioning styles on the motivation and learning of eight intermediate educable mentally retarded pupils. Interactive process data and pupil achievement on a recall posttest were examined for two different types of lessons: one utilizing "episodic" questions (that encouraged the child to…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Exceptional Child Research, Interaction Process Analysis, Intermediate Grades
Koe, Frank T., Jr. – 1976
Forty fourth-grade students participated in a study of the effects of intact-group versus small-group discussion on type and level of verbalization and on reading attitudes. The experimental group, divided in subgroups of five pupils each, discussed seven stories; the control group discussed the same stories as an intact class with teacher…
Descriptors: Discussion Groups, Doctoral Dissertations, Grade 4, Group Discussion
Taba, Hilda – 1966
To test the hypothesis that if given a curriculum designed to develop cognitive functioning and taught by strategies designed to develop cognitive skills, students would then master more sophisticated symbolic thought earlier and more systematically than could be expected if this development had been left to the accidents of experience or if…
Descriptors: Classroom Communication, Cognitive Development, Cognitive Processes, Cognitive Tests
Durkin, Dolores – 1978
Reading and social studies instruction in 39 third- through sixth-grade classrooms in central Illinois was observed in a study designed to determine whether elementary school classrooms provide comprehension instruction. Among the findings were that practically no comprehension instruction was seen but that comprehension assessment, usually…
Descriptors: Assignments, Classroom Observation Techniques, Classroom Research, Content Area Reading
Winograd, Ken – 1990
The purpose of this research was to understand fifth grade children's cognitive behavior as they wrote, solved and then, in small groups, shared original math story problems. Research questions examined children's: (1) beliefs about math in this problem-writing classroom, (2) math story problem-writing behavior, (3) difficulties with their…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Cognitive Processes, Elementary School Mathematics, Grade 5