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Direct linkPhillips, Amanda J.; Scott, Catherine; Matthews, Catherine E. – Science and Children, 2013
This article describes a lesson on bats developed for kindergartners, which uses models of bats to teach about their physiology, diet, and habitat. The lesson uses craft sticks, wax paper, and colored construction paper that kindergarten teachers can use to help their students compare the features of 4 different kinds of bats. The use of online…
Descriptors: Science Instruction, Kindergarten, Elementary School Science, Animals
Download full textLopatovska, Irene; Smiley, Bobby – Information Research: An International Electronic Journal, 2013
Introduction: The paper proposes a model of information behaviour in crisis. No previous model has attempted to integrate information resources, information behaviour and needs of the storm-affected communities within the temporal stages of a natural disaster. Method: The study was designed as autoethnography. The data were collected through a…
Descriptors: Models, Behavior, Information Needs, Information Sources
Rigo-Lemini, Mirela – Educational Studies in Mathematics, 2013
The paper introduces an interpretative framework that contains a characterization of "epistemic schemes" (constructs that are used to explain how class agents themselves are able to gain convincement in or promote convincement of mathematical statements) and "epistemic states" (a person's internal states, such as…
Descriptors: Schemata (Cognition), Mathematics Instruction, Elementary School Mathematics, Classification
de Bildt, Annelies; Oosterling, Iris J.; van Lang, Natasja D. J.; Kuijper, Sanne; Dekker, Vera; Sytema, Sjoerd; Oerlemans, Anoek M.; van Steijn, Daphne J.; Visser, Janne C.; Rommelse, Nanda N.; Minderaa, Ruud B.; van Engeland, Herman; van der Gaag, Rutger-Jan; Buitelaar, Jan K.; de Jonge, Maretha V. – Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 2013
The algorithm of the Autism Diagnostic Interview-Revised provides criteria for autism versus non-autism according to DSM-IV. Criteria for the broader autism spectrum disorders are needed. This study investigated the validity of seven sets of criteria from the literature, in 1,204 Dutch children (aged 3-18 years) with and without mental…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Diagnostic Tests, Autism, Pervasive Developmental Disorders
Bolaños, Daniel; Cole, Ron A.; Ward, Wayne H.; Tindal, Gerald A.; Hasbrouck, Jan; Schwanenflugel, Paula J. – Journal of Educational Psychology, 2013
This article describes a comprehensive approach to fully automated assessment of children's oral reading fluency (ORF), one of the most informative and frequently administered measures of children's reading ability. Speech recognition and machine learning techniques are described that model the 3 components of oral reading fluency: word accuracy,…
Descriptors: Oral Reading, Reading Fluency, Automation, Accuracy
Barney, Keith W. – Schole: A Journal of Leisure Studies and Recreation Education, 2013
Students in recreation programs are often introduced to laws that apply to therapeutic or community recreation services. Several of these laws have to do with policy regarding people who experience a disability. One important law is the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA). In order for students to better understand the law and its…
Descriptors: Disabilities, Federal Legislation, Educational Legislation, Advocacy
AlShammari, Iqbal A.; Aldhafiri, Mohammed D.; Al-Shammari, Zaid – College Student Journal, 2013
A meta-synthesis study was conducted of 60 research studies on educational data mining (EDM) and their impacts on and outcomes for improving learning outcomes. After an overview, an examination of these outcomes is provided (Romero, Ventura, Espejo, & Hervas, 2008; Romero, "et al.", 2011). Then, a review of other EDM-related research…
Descriptors: Meta Analysis, Information Retrieval, Outcomes of Education, Prediction
Diesendruck, Gil; Goldfein-Elbaz, Rebecca; Rhodes, Marjorie; Gelman, Susan; Neumark, Noam – Child Development, 2013
The present study compared 5-and 10-year-old North American and Israeli children's beliefs about the objectivity of different categories (n = 109). Children saw picture triads composed of two exemplars of the same category (e.g., two women) and an exemplar of a contrasting category (e.g., a man). Children were asked whether it would be acceptable…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Cultural Differences, Comparative Analysis, Children
Kaplan, Allison G. – Knowledge Quest, 2013
To some, discussing the demise of the Dewey Decimal Classification (DDC) system is tantamount to blasphemy, while to others it is a discussion long overdue (no pun intended). The author was asked, as an educator of librarians, to present her thoughts on the issue. Her conclusions are based not on thorough scientifically sound research, but rather…
Descriptors: Library Materials, Library Services, Library Development, Organizational Change
Schiano, Deborah – Knowledge Quest, 2013
Curation: to gather, organize, and present resources in a way that meets information needs and interests, makes sense for virtual as well as physical resources. A Northern New Jersey middle school library made the decision to curate its physical resources according to the needs of its users, and, in so doing, created a shelving system that is,…
Descriptors: Library Services, Library Development, Organizational Change, Change Strategies
Aubuchon, Jeffrey W. – Knowledge Quest, 2013
In this article, Oakmont Regional High School (Ashburnham, Massachusetts) librarian Jeffrey Aubuchon describes how the school library is developing a new classification scheme called the Spartan system. This system seeks to mirror instructional practices at Oakmont. The major divisions of the collection will be drawn around academic departments…
Descriptors: School Libraries, Classification, Library Development, Program Descriptions
Carstens, B. A.; Wright, J. M.; Coles, J. T.; McCleary, L. N.; Williams, R. L. – Journal on Excellence in College Teaching, 2013
This study developed a reliable and valid self-monitoring procedure for student use in recording and rating the quality of their individual comments in large college classes. Students used daily record cards immediately to record and rate each comment they made each day. However, a limit was set on the amount of credit students could claim for…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Student Participation, Classroom Communication, Discussion (Teaching Technique)
Anagnostaki, Lida; Wright, Michael J.; Papathanasiou, Athanasia – Journal of Genetic Psychology, 2013
The authors examined the influence of content and verbal cues on young children's understanding of secret information and of its disclosure. Participants were 209 5- and 6-year-old children in an experiment where a puppet, named Zinc, was the protagonist. Children were asked to whom Zinc would disclose a list of pieces of information, some of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Preschool Children, Puppetry, Disclosure
Teodorescu, Raluca E.; Bennhold, Cornelius; Feldman, Gerald; Medsker, Larry – Physical Review Special Topics - Physics Education Research, 2013
This paper describes research on a classification of physics problems in the context of introductory physics courses. This classification, called the Taxonomy of Introductory Physics Problems (TIPP), relates physics problems to the cognitive processes required to solve them. TIPP was created in order to design educational objectives, to develop…
Descriptors: Physics, Cognitive Processes, Curriculum Design, Taxonomy
Runions, Kevin C. – Journal of Youth and Adolescence, 2013
Despite widespread public attention to cyberbullying, online aggression and victimization have received scant conceptual development. This article focuses on how opportunities for aggression are distinct online from those of offline social contexts. The model developed here is informed by a recent aggression typology, which extends the…
Descriptors: Psychological Patterns, Aggression, Stimuli, Classification
