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de Bree, Elise; Wijnen, Frank; Gerrits, Ellen – Dyslexia, 2010
This study related the non-word repetition (NWR) abilities of 4-year-old children at-risk of dyslexia and children with specific language impairment (SLI) to their reading abilities at age eight. The results show that the SLI group obtained the lowest NWR score and the at-risk group performed in-between the control and SLI group. Approximately…
Descriptors: Reading Difficulties, Dyslexia, Reading Ability, Followup Studies
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Chao, Chin-chi – Language Learning & Technology, 2015
Behind CALL teacher education (CTE) there is an unproblematized consensus of transfer, which suggests a positivist and tool-centered view of learning gains that differs from the sociocultural focus of recent teacher education research. Drawing on Beach's (2003) conceptualization of transfer as "consequential transition," this qualitative…
Descriptors: Language Teachers, Teacher Education Programs, Praxis, Theory Practice Relationship
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Fogarty, Ian; Geelan, David – Journal of Computers in Mathematics and Science Teaching, 2013
Students in 4 Canadian high school physics classes completed instructional sequences in two key physics topics related to motion--Straight Line Motion and Newton's First Law. Different sequences of laboratory investigation, teacher explanation (lecture) and the use of computer-based scientific visualizations (animations and simulations) were…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Computer Simulation, Animation, Computer Assisted Instruction
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del Canto, Pablo; Gallego, Isabel; López, José Manuel; Medina, Esunly; Mochón, Francisco; Mora, Javier; Reyes, Angélica; Rodríguez, Eva; Salami, Esther; Santamaría, Eduard; Valero, Miguel – Journal of Technology and Science Education, 2011
In the present paper, we describe the work being carried out by a group of professors so as to implement the follow-up and feedback processes of the activities students do throughout the first academic years in their Engineering studies. Not to mention, this project is within the EHEA (European Higher Education Area) framework. Our results show…
Descriptors: Feedback (Response), Followup Studies, Engineering Education, Learning Activities
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van Diepen, Nico; Perrenet, Jacob; Zwaneveld, Bert – Informatics in Education, 2011
Informatics is currently being taught in high schools all over the world. In the Dutch curriculum, computer literacy is taught in the lower grades as a compulsory subject, Informatics is taught as an elective in the higher grades of some schools. As a follow-up to the outline of Grgurina and Tolboom (2008), the discussion about the future of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, High Schools, Information Science Education, Educational Practices
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Eseryel, Deniz; Ge, Xun; Ifenthaler, Dirk; Law, Victor – Journal of Educational Computing Research, 2011
Following a design-based research framework, this article reports two empirical studies with an educational MMOG, called "McLarin's Adventures," on facilitating 9th-grade students' complex problem-solving skill acquisition in interdisciplinary STEM education. The article discusses the nature of complex and ill-structured problem solving…
Descriptors: Educational Games, Problem Solving, Followup Studies, Skill Development
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Hintsanen, Mirka; Hintsa, Taina; Merjonen, Paivi; Leino, Mare; Keltikangas-Jarvinen, Liisa – Electronic Journal of Research in Educational Psychology, 2011
Introduction: This prospective longitudinal study examined several selected family- and school-related factors simultaneously in order to investigate the importance of well known and less examined predictors of educational attainment. Method: The participants were 844 (486 girls) nine-, 12-, and 15-years old comprehensive school students. Family-…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational Attainment, Predictor Variables, Longitudinal Studies
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Ozturk, O. – IEEE Transactions on Education, 2011
A project-oriented course for advanced undergraduate and graduate students is described for simulating multiple processor cores. Simics, a free simulator for academia, was utilized to enable students to explore computer architecture, operating systems, and hardware/software cosimulation. Motivation for including this course in the curriculum is…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Curriculum Development, Graduate Students, Undergraduate Students
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Molina, Brooke S. G.; Hinshaw, Stephen P.; Swanson, James W.; Arnold, L. Eugene; Vitiello, Benedetto; Jensen, Peter S.; Epstein, Jeffery N.; Hoza, Betsy; Hechtman, Lily; Abikoff, Howard B.; Elliott, Glen R.; Greenhill, Laurence L.; Newcorn, Jeffrey H.; Wells, Karen C.; Wigal, Timothy; Gibbons, Robert D.; Hur, Kwan; Houck, Patricia R. – Journal of the American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry, 2009
Participants of the Multimodal Treatment Study of Children with Attention Deficit and Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) eight years earlier do not differ significantly in repeated measures or newly analyzed variables that include school grades and psychiatric hospitalization. The treatment of childhood ADHD does not predict functioning six to eight…
Descriptors: Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder, Children, Hospitalized Children, Followup Studies
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Wilson, Valerie – Teaching and Teacher Education: An International Journal of Research and Studies, 2009
This article reports findings from a study of 100 headteachers of very small Scottish primary schools. The main aim of the research was to follow up a sample of those schools that had participated in a larger study of all small schools in Scotland in 1996 to explore the role of the "teaching headteacher". Evidence for this follow up…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Principals, Elementary Schools, Small Schools
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Engelbrecht, Johann; Harding, Ansie – International Journal of Mathematical Education in Science and Technology, 2009
This article is a follow-up of a study conducted in 2000 by the same authors on trends in numbers of mathematics majors at South African universities. Data from 12 universities for the 2000-2007 period is investigated. The previously observed trend of general and dramatic decrease in numbers of mathematics majors appears to have been reversed and…
Descriptors: Majors (Students), Foreign Countries, Mathematics Teachers, Mathematics Instruction
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Malkmus, Doris – portal: Libraries and the Academy, 2010
New approaches to undergraduate history education rely on primary sources. This study, based on a 2008-2009 online survey of 627 academic historians and 25 follow-up interviews, captures a snapshot of the current use of online, published, and archival primary sources used in new teaching methods. It identifies three distinct ways faculty utilize…
Descriptors: Research Methodology, Primary Sources, Educational Change, Research Skills
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Wanzek, Jeanne; Roberts, Greg; Linan-Thompson, Sylvia; Vaughn, Sharon; Woodruff, Althea L.; Murray, Christy S. – Assessment for Effective Intervention, 2010
The current study examined the predictive validity of oral reading fluency measures across first, second, and third grades for two reading achievement measures at the end of third grade. Oral reading fluency measures were administered to students from first grade to third. The "Texas Assessment of Knowledge and Skills" and the…
Descriptors: Reading Comprehension, Reading Fluency, Reading Achievement, Predictive Validity
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Hynds, Anne; McDonald, Lex – Professional Development in Education, 2010
This study, concerning teacher motivation, developed from an initial evaluation of a school-university professional development programme, designed to improve classroom practice and achievement for culturally diverse students. The evaluation answered a broad range of questions. A key theme to emerge related to factors that influenced teacher…
Descriptors: Teacher Motivation, Foreign Countries, Followup Studies, Student Diversity
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Martin, Shirley – Child Care in Practice, 2010
Early childhood education has increasingly been identified as a mechanism to alleviate educational disadvantage in areas of social exclusion. This study aims to add to the understanding of the nature and distribution of long-term benefits from early childhood intervention programmes and provides a detailed analysis of both the cognitive and…
Descriptors: Intervention, Early Childhood Education, Educational Attainment, Systems Approach
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