Browsing by Subject "Elementary education"
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Age and Gender Differences in Performance on a Spatial Rotation Test
(2003)This study investigated differential group performance on a spatial rotation test. A 19-item multiple-choice test was administered to a random sample of 107 students in grades 5 to 8 in an elementary school and a gymnasium ...
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Have All Children Benefited? A Perspective on Curriculum Initiatives and Low Achievers
(2002)This paper considers whether or not curriculum initiatives within England are in fact leading to qualitatively improved levels of thinking among children identified as lower achievers in arithmetic. Revisiting data from ...
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An Instructional Model for Teaching Literacy: Implications for Instructional Theory
(1998)The purpose of the research reported in this paper was the development of a learner-centered instructional model for the teaching of reading and writing skills. Specifically, the 14 APA (American Psychological Association) ...
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Learning through multi-touch interfaces in museum exhibits: An empirical investigation
(2013)Interactive technologies are employed in museums to enhance the visitors' experience and help them learn in more authentic ways. Great amounts of time and money and many man-hours of hard work have been spent. But do such ...
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The "Problem" of the European Dimension in Education: A Principled Reconstruction of the Greek Cypriot Curriculum
(European Educational Research Journal, 2005)The European dimension in education has been a term increasingly used by the European Union and the Council of Europe to denote some of their educational policies and initiatives. It has also been a contested term in ...
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The Role of Contextual Information in Word Meaning Acquisition during Normal Reading.
(Illinois Univ, Urbana Center for the Study,of Reading;Bolt, Beranek and Newman, Inc.,, 1991)A study was conducted to examine the data collected by previous researchers on the degree of helpfulness of natural contexts. In this study two schemes of context cue types were compared on the basis of their contribution ...