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Shastri, Jigisha; Mohite, Prerana – International Journal of Early Years Education, 1997
Classified primary students in India into light, moderate, and heavy television viewers (controlling for socioeconomic status) and assessed them for either academic performance or cognitive skills, using various instruments. Found no significant differences among groups, but light viewers performed significantly better on oral reading; results may…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Children, Cognitive Ability, Foreign Countries
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Muralidharan, Rajalakshmi; Kaur, Paramjeet – International Journal of Early Years Education, 1995
Reports the rationale, objectives, tools, and achievements of Project Motivation, which helps disadvantaged primary school children in Delhi, India, to develop required competencies through a child-to-child approach. Middle-grade children were oriented to work with the younger children, and these older children developed a positive self-concept…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Age Differences, Competence, Disadvantaged Youth
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Smith, Brigid – International Journal of Early Years Education, 1994
This paper compares first-grade education projects in rural India and Pakistan that have attempted to shift from rote learning of texts to an active, experiential, child-centered approach to literacy learning. Examples of successful approaches and techniques, as well as implications for literacy programs in general, are discussed. (MDM)
Descriptors: Classroom Techniques, Experiential Learning, Foreign Countries, Grade 1
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Rao, K. N.; Ratnamala, V.; Smith, Brigid – International Journal of Early Years Education, 1998
Describes the development and evaluation of new classroom materials, including a Class 1 textbook, teacher textbook, and eight supplementary readers, designed to teach children in India to read and write in Telugu. Notes that in schools using the new materials, children showed significant learning gains, and teachers and parents were highly…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Instructional Material Evaluation, Material Development, Primary Education