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Chien, Chin-Wen – Current Issues in Education, 2015
This study analyzed 24 pre-service elementary school English teachers' design and delivery of remedial education to the fifth and sixth graders in the collaboration between the university pre-service teacher education program and the local elementary school in a city in northwest Taiwan. The pre-service teachers were encouraged by the elementary…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Preservice Teachers, Remedial Instruction, Grade 5
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Wingfield, Robert Joshua; Graziano, Paulo A.; McNamara, Joseph P. H., Janicke, David M. – Current Issues in Education, 2011
The purpose of this study was to investigate relationships between body mass index (BMI), physical fitness, and academic performance in elementary school students. Specifically, BMI and scores on the President's Challenge Physical Activity and Fitness Awards Program, a physical fitness test, were compared to reading and mathematics scores on the…
Descriptors: Body Composition, Physical Fitness, Tests, Elementary School Students
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Barksdale, Mary Alice; Triplett, Cheri F. – Current Issues in Education, 2010
This paper explores the voices of elementary children in public schools. Three databases were used including (a) interviews with 25 elementary students, (b) drawings and writings created by 225 third through sixth-grade students about their high stakes testing experiences, and (c) observations in two first-grade classrooms. The data demonstrate…
Descriptors: Public Schools, Elementary School Students, Interviews, Student Attitudes