PREPARED UNDER THE SPONSORSHIP OF THE SCIENCE CURRICULUM IMPROVEMENT STUDY, THIS TRIAL EDITION OF A STUDENT MANUAL FOR A UNIT ON ENERGY IS INTENDED FOR USE AT THE FIFTH AND SIXTH GRADE LEVELS. IT IS DESIGNED ESSENTIALLY AROUND PUPIL-CENTERED ACTIVITIES WHICH REQUIRE BOTH QUANTITATIVE AND QUALITATIVE OBSERVATIONS. THE ACTIVITIES IN PART I INVOLVE…

This book which is intended for children in grades 4 through 6 includes information concerning the space industry and career opportunities. Included are five separate chapters, a summary, and a bibliography of children's books. The book describes a sequence of events taking place in a hypothetical elementary school classroom in which a space…

Seven mediational strategies for use in verbal associative learning have been discovered. They range from the simple to the intermediate to the complex. The subjects of this study were 173 fifth graders, who were administered a paired-associate (PA) task and asked to identify the strategies they used. On the basis of this data, they were then…

Developed was a "reading free" test to evaluate knowledge and understanding of science by elementary school pupils. This study was made because it was suspected that students reading below grade level were unable to indicate fully their science knowledge on conventional tests. The Pictorial-aural Inventory of Science Knowledge (PISK) was…

This study examines the relationship between size of school district (ADA) and several measures of educational outcome (mean and median reading and arithmetic scores at the 5th grade level) while controlling statistically for student and financial inputs (socioeconomic characteristics of communities and dollar expenditure per ADA, respectively).…

The purpose of this study was to investigate a proposed model for the acquisition of the concept of displacement volume and to compare two methods of conservation task presentation. A 12-stage hierarchical model for the acquisition of the concept was proposed, based on four primary assumptions: (1) concept attainment can be measured by…

Classroom protocols collected within this volume are examples of the protocols from grade 5 developed by the ethnographers associated with Special Study A: "An Ethnographic Study of the Forty Classrooms of the Beginning Teacher Evaluation Study." Twenty teachers at both the second and fifth grades were observed for one week by an…

This report evaluated a four phase environmental sciences program designed to serve 654 students from 23 different fifth grade classes from a Manhattan community school district. Phase one, a pre-camp educational program in the classroom, was designed to introduce the participating classes to the concepts of environmental sciences which the…

A study was conducted to investigate the facilitation of learning word pairs (paired associate learning) using connected text rather than the unrelated, simple sentences of previous research. Each of 64 fifth graders, classified as either a high or a low reading achiever, was assigned to one of four presentation conditions: (1) hear sentences/read…

The author investigates elementary school students' performance when solving selected open distributive sentences in relation to three factors (Open Sentence Type, Context, Number Size) and identifies and classifies solution methods attempted by students and students' errors in performance. Eighty fifth-grade students participated in the…

This study investigated learning through listening at rates ranging from 178 to 378 words per minute. Three presentation strategies--a single presentation, a double presentation, and a double presentation with a one-week interval between the presentations--were compared. Immediate and one-week retention data were gathered on each subject.…

Twenty-eight fifth and sixth graders who had attended the University of Illinois Reading Center for an analytical diagnosis of reading difficulties were compared with a group of 33 students at the same grade level who had not had the benefit of diagnosis beyond the survey level to determine (1) whether the analytical level of diagnosis could…

The main purpose of this study is to determine achievement changes that occur in fifth grade students using the social studies curriculum program, "Man: A Course of Study (MACOS)". The experimental group consists of 103 students using the MACOS materials, and the control group of 103 students using a traditional social studies course.…

This study investigated the effects of using three strategies for reading on the comprehension of fiction and nonfiction selections by fifth graders. The subjects (N=270) were grouped into three different reading ability levels and randomly assigned to the three strategies for reading: (1) subjects read the entire selection and then answered 10…

To gather data on the implications of the proposition that intellectual ability should be conceived as multidimensional, 19 different measures, all of which have been employed as selection criteria for programs for the gifted, were used as a basis for selecting 5 students from 2 fifth-grade classes (N=49) for inclusion in a hypothetical program…