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Davis, Melinda M.; Spurlock, Margaret; Ramsey, Katrina; Smith, Jamie; Beamer, Beth Ann; Aromaa, Susan; McGinnis, Paul B. – Journal of School Nursing, 2017
Providing flavored milk in school lunches is controversial, with conflicting evidence on its impact on nutritional intake versus added sugar consumption and excess weight gain. Nonindustry-sponsored studies using individual-level analyses are needed. Therefore, we conducted this mixed-methods study of flavored milk removal at a rural primary…
Descriptors: Mixed Methods Research, Rural Schools, Elementary Schools, Food Standards
Mamber, Stephen W.; Gantenbein, Alice – Primary Science, 2017
Tootsie Pops, manufactured by Tootsie Roll Industries of Chicago, Illinois, are spherical hard-candy lollipops with a chocolate-flavoured, chewy center. While Tootsie Pops have been around since 1931, it was a television commercial made in 1969 that captured the attention of many. The commercial, an amusing animated cartoon, posed the following…
Descriptors: Science Instruction, Teaching Methods, Mathematics Instruction, Elementary School Students
The Assessment Playbook for Distance and Blended Learning: Measuring Student Learning in Any Setting
Fisher, Douglas; Frey, Nancy; Bustamante, Vince; Hattie, John – Corwin, 2020
Assessments are the essential link between teaching and learning, yet the assessments used in face-to-face classrooms are not always practical or impactful in remote learning environments. Now that teachers are teaching from a distance, how will you assess what your students have learned? Tapping the expertise of teachers who are successfully…
Descriptors: Student Evaluation, Distance Education, Blended Learning, Electronic Learning
Dumanli Kadizade, Esma; Karaz, Baris – Eurasian Journal of Educational Research, 2021
Purpose: The words and expressions are as important as the handled subject for the children in children's literature works. In this study, the works of Roald Dahl, who is one of the children's literature writers, have been examined to identify the violence elements, usage frequency and the situations in which violence elements are used in the…
Descriptors: Violence, Childrens Literature, Authors, Antisocial Behavior
Garraffa, Maria; Coco, Moreno I.; Branigan, Holly P. – Language Learning and Development, 2015
We investigated the production of subject relative clauses (SRc) in Italian pre-school children with Specific Language Impairment (SLI) and age-matched typically-developing children (TD) controls. In a structural priming paradigm, children described pictures after hearing the experimenter produce a bare noun or an SRc description, as part of a…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Language Impairments, Syntax, Priming
Jacobs, George M.; Joyce, Michael J.; Subramaniam, Jayavelu – Online Submission, 2018
This article reports research on the occurrence of terms related to food in textbooks written for students of English as an Additional Language. Ten such textbooks were examined. Of the 3767 total activities in the textbooks, 641 activities (17%) contained at least one reference to food, and seven of the books contained an entire unit focused on…
Descriptors: Food, English (Second Language), Second Language Instruction, Textbooks
Costa, Sebastiano; Ingoglia, Sonia; Inguglia, Cristiano; Liga, Francesca; Lo Coco, Alida; Larcan, Rosalba – Measurement and Evaluation in Counseling and Development, 2018
The purpose of this multistudy report was to adapt the Basic Psychological Need Satisfaction and Frustration Scale (BPNSFS) to the Italian context. Two studies were conducted. In Study 1, we investigated the dimensionality, reliability, and convergent and discriminant validity of the instrument in a sample of 544 participants (males = 41%) from 16…
Descriptors: Psychological Needs, Psychometrics, Need Gratification, Gender Differences
Staurowsky, Ellen J.; Watanabe, Nicholas; Cooper, Joseph; Cooky, Cheryl; Lough, Nancy; Paule-Koba, Amanda; Pharr, Jennifer; Williams, Sarah; Cummings, Sarah; Issokson-Silver, Karen; Snyder, Marjorie – Women's Sports Foundation, 2020
This report examines the state of girls' and women's sport in the United States through a broad lens, looking at the triumphs, the challenges, and the tremendous opportunities that are yet to be realized. The areas of focus include sport participation opportunities for girls and women; the benefits of sport participation for girls and women; the…
Descriptors: Females, Athletics, Athletes, Student Participation
Florit, Elena; Cain, Kate; Mason, Lucia – British Journal of Educational Psychology, 2020
Background: Children's comprehension of single texts relies on both foundational and higher-level skills. These are also assumed to support multiple-document comprehension, but their relative importance has not been examined, to date. Multiple-document comprehension additionally requires the identification and use of information about each…
Descriptors: Grade 4, Children, Elementary School Students, Reading Comprehension
Strachota, Bob – Democracy & Education, 2008
Democracy is an ultimate test for human beings, holding that people are clever, generous, and persistent enough to solve power issues among themselves. This, of course, says the writer, is asking a lot of people, and centuries of evidence posit the idea as too idealistic. In this article, the author describes what he calls a pragmatic test on…
Descriptors: Middle Schools, Democracy, Power Structure, Democratic Values
Vowell, Julie; Phillips, Marianne – Science Activities: Classroom Projects and Curriculum Ideas, 2015
This standards-based science lesson introduces young learners to scientific inquiry and critical thinking by using activities to demonstrate three phases of matter (solid, liquid, and gas). By learning about the states of matter through a 5E instructional approach, students are encouraged to observe changes in the states of matter and to discuss…
Descriptors: Individualized Instruction, Critical Thinking, Inquiry, Demonstrations (Educational)
Alberts, Heike C. – Journal of Geography, 2010
Food topics are uniquely suited to increase students' interest in human geography. A highly processed food like chocolate can be studied in a variety of different ways, making it possible to include chocolate examples and activities at various points in a human geography class. The goals of this article are to provide sufficient background…
Descriptors: Human Geography, Geography Instruction, High Schools, Colleges
Mazzotti, Valerie L.; Kelley, Kelly R.; Coco, Cassie M. – Journal of Special Education, 2015
Teaching students to develop and use a Summary of Performance (SOP) may be one method for teaching self-advocacy skills to ensure students with intellectual disability can advocate for accommodations and supports during Person-Centered Planning (PCP) meetings and in postschool employment settings. This study used a multiple-probe across…
Descriptors: Postsecondary Education, Student Participation, Meetings, Teaching Methods
Parsons, L. B.; Goodall, R. – Physics Education, 2011
In teaching the materials science aspects of physics, mechanical behaviour is important due to its relevance to many practical applications. This article presents a method for experimentally examining the toughness of chocolate, including a design for a simple test rig, and a number of experiments that can be performed in the classroom. Typical…
Descriptors: Science Instruction, Science Experiments, Mechanics (Physics), Food
Humbert, Ianessa A.; Sunday, Kirstyn L.; Karagiorgos, Eleni; Vose, Alicia K.; Gould, Francois; Greene, Lindsey; Azola, Alba; Tolar, Ara; Rivet, Alycia – Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 2018
Purpose: The aim of this study was to examine the effects of frozen and mixed-consistency boluses on the swallowing physiology of younger and older adults. We also aimed to quantify factors that lead to increased variability in swallowing outcomes (i.e., age, sex, bolus type). Method: Forty-one healthy adults (18-85 years old) swallowed 5 blocks…
Descriptors: Adults, Motor Reactions, Age Differences, Gender Differences