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Direct linkThomson, Sue – Australian Primary Mathematics Classroom, 2004
"Numeracy in the early years: Project good start" was a national project that commenced in 2001, and will conclude this year. The key objective of the project is to improve children's early numeracy outcomes by investigating the practices and learning experiences that support the numeracy development of a sample of children in the year…
Descriptors: Teacher Effectiveness, Indigenous Populations, Numeracy, Urban Areas
Download full textSamant, Yogindra; Mankeshwar, Ranjit; Sankhe, Lalit; Parker, David L. – International Electronic Journal of Health Education, 2006
Background: The total number of people with HIV (Human Immunodeficiency Virus) infection in India is estimated to be 10% of all global cases. People living with HIV in India often experience discrimination while receiving health care due to inadequate knowledge and fear among health care professionals. Data presented in this paper represents the…
Descriptors: Medical Students, Sexually Transmitted Diseases, Foreign Countries, Sexuality
Ho, Esther Sui-Chu – School Community Journal, 2006
Using data from Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) developed by the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), this study examines the social disparity of family involvement. A total of 4,405 students from 140 Hong Kong secondary schools participated in the first cycle of PISA study identifying four types of…
Descriptors: Disadvantaged, Parent Participation, Family Involvement, Parent School Relationship
Ward, David; Kern, M. Kathleen – portal: Libraries and the Academy, 2006
Driven by studies showing that Millennials (ages 18-24) have adopted IM (instant messaging) as a standard communications medium, many libraries are reaching out to their own patrons in this way. At the same time, some of these libraries have invested thousands of dollars in vendor-based chat reference solutions that provide duplicate…
Descriptors: Library Services, Outreach Programs, Computer Mediated Communication, Time
Baker, Dale; Leary, Rosemary – Journal of Research in Science Teaching, 2003
The purpose of this study was to try to determine what influences girls to choose science. Forty girls were interviewed in Grades 2, 5, 8, 11 using a semistructured protocol. The interview focused on feelings about science, science careers, peer and parental support, and how science is taught. To determine whether their responses were based on…
Descriptors: Grade 2, Social Environment, Females, Science Careers
Bernier, Roxane – Journal of Educational Computing Research, 2003
This article investigates three types of content presentation (video documentary, computerized dictionary, and games) within interactive computer use at the Quebec Museum of Civilization. The visitors' viewpoint is particularly relevant for interface designing outcomes, since they argued that terminals require specific content display for…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Computer Uses in Education, Computer Literacy, Museums
Al-Ali, Mohammed N. – International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism, 2006
This study reports an investigation of the genre components and pragmatic strategies of letters of applications written by Jordanian Arabic--English bilinguals. Specifically it is set up to trace how far novice non-native speakers of English are able to utilise the generic components and politeness strategies of the target language that strongly…
Descriptors: Language Styles, Pragmatics, English (Second Language), Interpersonal Relationship
Henry, James A.; Dennis, Kyle C.; Schechter, Martin A. – Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 2005
Tinnitus is an increasing health concern across all strata of the general population. Although an abundant amount of literature has addressed the many facets of tinnitus, wide-ranging differences in professional beliefs and attitudes persist concerning its clinical management. These differences are detrimental to tinnitus patients because the…
Descriptors: Patients, Incidence, Workers Compensation, Cognitive Processes
Mercier, E. M.; Barron, B.; O'Connor, K. M. – Journal of Computer Assisted Learning, 2006
Gender differences in the pursuit of technology careers are a current issue of concern. We report on two studies that use surveys, drawings and interviews to examine sixth- and eighth-grade students' perceptions of knowledgeable computer users and their self-perception as a computer-type person. In Study 1, participants were asked to generate…
Descriptors: Gender Differences, Computers, Student Surveys, Interviews
Caldwell, Joyce Y.; Davis, Jamie D.; Du Bois, Barbara; Echo-Hawk, Holly; Erickson, Jill Shepard; Goins, R. Turner; Hill, Calvin; Hillabrant, Walter; Johnson, Sharon R.; Kendall, Elizabeth; Keemer, Kelly; Manson, Spero M.; Marshall, Catherine A.; Running Wolf, Paulette; Santiago, Rolando L.; Schacht, Robert; Stone, Joseph B. – American Indian and Alaska Native Mental Health Research: The Journal of the National Center, 2005
This article describes the collective experience of a multidisciplinary network of researchers, practitioners, and program evaluators who support appropriate research and evaluation methods in working with Native peoples. Our experience underlines the critical importance of culture in understanding and conducting research with the diverse…
Descriptors: Program Evaluation, Evaluators, Evaluation Methods, Alaska Natives
Ragimova, O. A. – Russian Education and Society, 2004
This article reports the findings of a study determining the health of students in the gymnasium classes of primary school in Saratov as a function of the increase in their educational load. A monitoring was carried out from the 1993-1994 school year through the 1999-2000 school year. The social health of this group of children was determined as a…
Descriptors: Longitudinal Studies, Foreign Countries, Elementary School Students, Child Health
Rimm-Kaufman, Sara E.; Kagan, Jerome – Behavioral Disorders, 2005
This study examines infant temperament (inhibited and uninhibited styles) as a predictor of behavior in the kindergarten classroom. Thirty-one kindergarten children were observed in their classrooms for approximately 1.5 hours on each of four occasions between September and January. Fourteen children (8 girls, 6 boys) had been classified as high…
Descriptors: Personality, Infants, Kindergarten, Interaction Process Analysis
Watt, Helen M. G. – Educational Research and Evaluation, 2006
This study examined the continued gender imbalance in mathematics participation in senior high, which has implications for adolescents' future careers. It confirms persisting greater male participation in maths-related educational and occupational choices among this sample of Australian youth. Gendered course-taking in maths, along with…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Grade 9, Females, Careers
Gray, John; Mclellan, Ros – Gender and Education, 2006
Much of the research investigating pupils' attitudes towards school has been qualitatively-oriented. This analysis explores the extent to which some of the differences between pupils can be rendered in quantitative terms. Drawing upon a survey of 1310 pupils in 21 primary schools, its main concern is to explore the extent to which there is a…
Descriptors: Gender Differences, Factor Analysis, Student Attitudes, School Attitudes
Liu, Fengshu – Gender and Education, 2006
Studies on the effect of only-child status on girls' education indicate that the only-child policy has had an unintended consequence of engendering a child-centered culture with a strong belief and shared interest among the urban community in educating the only-child regardless of the child's sex. As the distribution of education by sex is…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Females, Social Theories, Males
