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Garfunkel, Frank – 1967
Six teachers were given instructions and materials with which to conduct a 20-minute teaching session. The sessions were filmed. The films will be scrutinized to obtain comparisons of teaching styles, tasks (the instructions and materials provided each teacher), and teacher-task interactions. The films have not been completely processed yet and so…
Descriptors: Evaluation, Films, Performance Factors, Preschool Teachers
Costa, Lara-Jeane C.; Edwards, Crystal N.; Hooper, Stephen R. – Learning Disability Quarterly, 2016
This longitudinal study was conducted to determine (a) the rate of co-occurrence of reading disabilities (RDs) in a writing disability (WD) population of students followed from first grade to fourth grade and (b) the cognitive burden that is assumed by having a WD and a RD (WD + RD). The sample included 137 first-grade students from a single…
Descriptors: Elementary School Students, Writing Difficulties, Reading Difficulties, Multiple Disabilities
Hopper, Mari K.; Moninger, Shana Lynn – Journal of American College Health, 2017
Objective: To determine if weight gain is accompanied by development of insulin resistance (IR) during 4 years in college. Participants: Two cohorts of college students were enrolled in fall semesters 2009 and 2010 and tracked for 4 years. Methods: Following a 12-hour fast, subjects reported for measurement of body mass index (BMI), perceived…
Descriptors: Body Weight, Anxiety, Exercise, Obesity
Li, Yanru – English Language Teaching, 2022
This study investigated the erroneous use of the high-frequency verb TAKE by the Chinese college learners of English as a foreign language (EFL), aiming to identify the similarities and differences between Chinese EFL learners, aimed at finding out more effective ways for the teaching and researching of the high-frequency verbs. Corpus-based…
Descriptors: Computational Linguistics, Verbs, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction

Potter, Glenn; And Others – NASSP Bulletin, 1981
Outlines four principles that are crucial to the success of an educational athletic program and gives suggestions for their implementation. The principles are (1) maximum participation; (2) participative decision making, teamwork, and sportsmanship; (3) progress in physical fitness and skills; and (4) evaluation of the coach. (WD)
Descriptors: Athletic Coaches, Athletics, Evaluation, Physical Fitness
Sigel, Irving – 1968
Representational competence refers to the individual's capability to respond appropriately to external representations. For example, a child engaged in a grouping task may collect together all like objects even if the group contains varying representations of the object, including (1) the object itself, (2) a three-dimensional likeness of the…
Descriptors: Abstract Reasoning, Associative Learning, Child Development, Classification
O'Brien, Roslyn A.; Lopate, Phillip – 1968
Evidence indicates that disadvantaged children are intellectually inferior to middle class children at the time they enter school; and as school continues, the gap widens. The environment of the disadvantaged child lacks much of the opportunity and stimulation for intellectual growth present in the middle and upper class environments and generally…
Descriptors: Compensatory Education, Disadvantaged, Educationally Disadvantaged, Enrichment Activities
ANDERSON, SCARVIA B.; TEMP, GEORGE – 1967
THIS DOCUMENT IS SECTION 3 OF A 3-PART REPORT BY THE EDUCATIONAL TESTING SERVICE. THE DATA USED IN THIS SECTION WERE COMPILED FROM 79 CLASSES CONTAINING ABOUT 1,000 PUPILS. THE CLASSES WERE PART OF THE 1966 SUMMER HEAD START PROGRAM. THE PURPOSE OF THIS DOCUMENT IS TO NOTE GENERAL PERFORMANCE CHANGES IN THE PUPILS AS MEASURED BY TESTS ADMINISTERED…
Descriptors: Achievement, Behavior Change, Classroom Environment, Classroom Research
WAX, ROSALIE H. – 1967
THE AMERICAN INDIAN SUBCULTURE, AS REPRESENTED IN THIS STUDY BY THE SIOUX OF THE PINE RIDGE RESERVATION IN SOUTH DAKOTA, EXPERIENCES PROBLEMS WITH ITS YOUTHS' BECOMING HIGH SCHOOL DROPOUTS. MANY OF THE REASONS FOR THIS PROBLEM PARALLEL THE PROBLEMS OF OTHER AMERICAN MINORITIES, NAMELY, (1) DISSIMILARITY BETWEEN THE VALUES OF THE MINORITY…
Descriptors: Adjustment (to Environment), American Indians, Cultural Differences, Cultural Isolation
KLEIN, GENEVIEVE; AND OTHERS – 1967
A TUCSON EDUCATIONAL PROJECT, CALLED COVERT (CHILDREN OFFERED VITAL EDUCATIONAL RETRAINING AND THERAPY), HAS BEEN PROPOSED TO IMPROVE THE EDUCATIONAL OPPORTUNITY OF EMOTIONALLY DISTURBED CHILDREN. SURVEYS INDICATE THAT FROM 5 TO 14 PERCENT OF TUCSON'S SCHOOL CHILDREN HAVE EMOTIONAL-BEHAVIORAL PROBLEMS WHICH INTERFERE WITH THEIR LEARNING…
Descriptors: Behavior Problems, Child Psychology, Community Services, Cooperative Programs
Issa, Reine M. – ProQuest LLC, 2014
Instructional leadership is not well-defined in the literature. The term has been used to describe the principal's role as an instructional leader. However, principals are not the only instructional leaders. Teachers are as well. In this study, data on leadership and problem solving style were collected one time from 378 educators in K-12 school…
Descriptors: Teacher Attitudes, Instructional Leadership, Problem Solving, Elementary Secondary Education
Andrews, Sally; Hersch, Jolyn – Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 2010
Two experiments investigated the relationship between masked form priming and individual differences in reading and spelling proficiency among university students. Experiment 1 assessed neighbor priming for 4-letter word targets from high- and low-density neighborhoods in 97 university students. The overall results replicated previous evidence of…
Descriptors: Individual Differences, College Students, Cues, Spelling
Development and Validation of a Writing Dispositions Scale for Elementary and Middle School Students
Piazza, Carolyn L.; Siebert, Carl F. – Journal of Educational Research, 2008
The authors report the development and validation of the Writing Dispositions Scale (WDS), a self-report instrument for measuring affective stances toward writing. The authors collected survey data from 854 elementary and middle school students and randomly split the data to facilitate both an exploratory factor analysis (EFA) and a confirmatory…
Descriptors: Middle School Students, Content Validity, Factor Structure, Measures (Individuals)
Nam, Chang S.; Smith-Jackson, Tonya L. – Journal of Information Technology Education, 2007
Web-based courses and programs have increasingly been developed by many academic institutions, organizations, and companies worldwide due to their benefits for both learners and educators. However, many of the developmental approaches lack two important considerations needed for implementing Web-based learning applications: (1) integration of the…
Descriptors: Instructional Design, Web Based Instruction, Educational Technology, Computer Interfaces
Hashway, Robert M. – Phi Delta Kappan, 1981
Testing of 4,899 freshmen in the Massachusetts State College System using the system's domain-referenced Mathematics Placement Test suggests that male/female differences in mathematical ability have been exaggerated. (WD)
Descriptors: Academic Ability, Comparative Testing, Higher Education, Mathematics