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Download full textHughes, Jan; And Others – 1983
The purposes of this study were to investigate the interrelatedness of several measures of social competence and to determine a valid and practical combination of procedures for assessing social competence in school or clinic settings. A total of 51 sixth-grade children (23 boys and 28 girls) were administered the following measures of social…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Assertiveness, Elementary Education, Elementary School Students
Burt, Andy; And Others – 1981
This manual for sixth grade French instruction accompanies the early French immersion program. It is based on general and specific learning objectives and addresses the four language skills the child needs to develop. The introduction to the manual provides an overview of the program for the middle grades and learning objectives for the four…
Descriptors: Class Activities, Educational Objectives, Elementary Education, French
Clark, Sandra L. – 1989
This study investigated the role of knowledge base organization in elementary school students' memory performance. In a preliminary study, students in grades 2, 6, and 10 rated words from three semantic categories for their category representativeness. Results disclosed age-related changes in how children rate words for high and low typicality.…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Classification, Cognitive Development, Cognitive Structures
Reuman, David A. – 1989
When students make the transition from elementary school to junior high school, they experience abrupt organizational changes in their school environment. The hypothesis that social comparison processes mediate the relation between ability grouping practices in mathematics and students' achievement expectancies was tested in a longitudinal sample…
Descriptors: Ability Grouping, Elementary School Mathematics, Grade 6, Grade 7
Santa Barbara County Schools, CA. – 1981
The cabin leaders for the Environmental Education Outdoor School program are selected by their high school and by the elementary school teachers of the children in their cabin. This handbook was developed to aid cabin leaders in their special role as "big brother" or "big sister" to 12 to 15 sixth graders. Not only is the…
Descriptors: American Indians, Check Lists, Clothing, Elementary Education
Chicago Board of Education, IL. Dept. of Curriculum. – 1980
The curriculum guide for teachers of Spanish language arts for native Spanish-speaking students in the Chicago public schools' bilingual education program is introduced by a section outlining the program and defining the areas to be emphasized in the program: word attack, comprehension skills, study skills, and literature appreciation. Sections…
Descriptors: Behavioral Objectives, Bilingual Education, Class Activities, Classroom Techniques
Indiana State Dept. of Education, Indianapolis. – 1985
The Indiana Basic Competency Skills Testing and Remediation Program manual states that the purpose of the testing program is to assist Indiana's educators with the implementation of remediation programs, and to assess overall educational programs. Procedures for administering the tests of reading, mathematics, and writing in grades 3 and 6 are…
Descriptors: Basic Skills, Elementary Education, Grade 3, Grade 6
Nevens, Margaret; Kostick, Diane – 1972
Information and learning activities about Russia are presented in this sixth grade social studies unit. Among the unit's objectives are identification of political and economic effects of Communism, determination of the size of the Soviet Union and its latitudinal position, and comprehension of the causes and effects of the Sino-Soviet split.…
Descriptors: Affective Objectives, Area Studies, Bibliographies, Cognitive Objectives
Guthrie, John T.; And Others – 1976
Questionnaires were sent to principals and teachers of second and sixth grade children who were part of an Educational Testing Service (ETS) study of compensatory reading programs; the data were combined and analyzed with the original ETS data to determine what effects instructional characteristics had on reading achievement. Within the…
Descriptors: Compensatory Education, Conference Reports, Elementary Education, Grade 2
San Diego City Schools, CA. – 1980
The results of standardized norm-referenced achievement tests via the state mandated California Assessment Program (CAP) and the Districtwide Testing Program for the 1979-80 school year are summarized. California Assessment Program tests were administered statewide to all third, sixth and twelfth grade students. The nationally standardized…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Basic Skills, Comparative Analysis, Educational Assessment
Brittain, Mary M. – 1981
An 11 page chapter from a sixth grade social studies text was used in a study assessing the complexities of comprehending social studies materials and the sensitivity of prospective and experienced teachers to these complexities. A sentence-by-sentence analysis of the thinking operations required for mastery of the material showed that numerous…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Content Area Reading, Difficulty Level, Elementary School Teachers
Staton, Jana; And Others – 1982
This is the first of two related documents reporting a study that analyzed the text of 26 student-teacher dialogue journals from a sixth grade class as a developmental link between students' natural competence in oral conversation and their developing competence in written language. The first section of the report discusses (1) the purpose of the…
Descriptors: Classroom Communication, Dialogs (Language), Elementary School Students, Grade 6
Graves, Michael F.; And Others – 1980
A study was conducted to investigate children's ability to deal with multiple meaning words in isolation and in context. Four low-ability students and four high-ability students from grades two, four, and six were shown nouns rated at the prefourth, presixth, and pretenth grade levels, and asked to give the meaning of the words. Students received…
Descriptors: Context Clues, Difficulty Level, Elementary Education, Grade 2
Kaplan, Jay Bernard – 1974
Fifth and sixth grade students from the State College Area School District (Pennsylvania) participated in a 5-day resident outdoor education program to investigate the effectiveness of such a program on the development of cognitive learning processes. Students were divided into experimental and control groups of one fifth and one sixth grade class…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Cognitive Development, Comparative Testing, Data Analysis
Mitchell, Katherine; And Others – 1981
Committees on Content Analysis and Correlation Studies were appointed by the Alabama State Superintendent of Education to provide information regarding the similarities and differences between the Californa Achievement Tests (CAT), Levels 13-C and 16-C, and the Alabama Basic Competency Tests (BCT), grade 3 and 6. The major purpose of these…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Correlation, Elementary Education, Elementary School Mathematics
