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Andrew Burrell; Roger Beard – Research Papers in Education, 2024
Framed within the fields of applied linguistics and language play, the writing of three attainment groups of 9-11-year-old children was used to investigate their use of ludic (playful) punctuation in the composition of an imaginative narrative. The scripts were from a larger repeat-design study of writing development that addressed a range of…
Descriptors: Childrens Writing, Punctuation, Narration, Childrens Literature
Heirweg, Sofie; De Smul, Mona; Merchie, Emmelien; Devos, Geert; Van Keer, Hilde – Research Papers in Education, 2022
Notwithstanding the value of self-regulation, different studies evidence that self-regulated learning (SRL) is still insufficiently ingrained in schools and that teachers only rarely promote it among their students. Therefore, the current study reports on a one-year school-wide professional development programme (PDP). A quasi-experimental…
Descriptors: Elementary School Teachers, Grade 5, Grade 6, Elementary School Students
Strindberg, Joakim; Horton, Paul; Thornberg, Robert – Research Papers in Education, 2020
The aim of the study was to examine Swedish school pupils' perspectives on why some pupils engage in bullying, support bullying or avoid standing up for the one(s) being bullied, despite a shared understanding that bullying is wrong. Through the use of focus group interviews combined with two bullying vignettes, a total of 74 pupils from grades 5…
Descriptors: Peer Acceptance, Student Attitudes, Bullying, Victims
Koopman, Maaike; Thurlings, Marieke; den Brok, Perry – Research Papers in Education, 2019
In this study, we investigated which teacher characteristics influence student proficiency development regarding fractions in Grade 5 of Dutch primary education. At least three domains of research (i.e. perspectives) on effective teaching can be distinguished: studies focusing on teachers' background characteristics, on their knowledge and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Teacher Characteristics, Mathematics Skills, Elementary School Students
Forsberg, Camilla; Thornberg, Robert; Samuelsson, Marcus – Research Papers in Education, 2014
The aim with the present study was to investigate bystander actions in bullying situations as well as reasons behind these actions as they are articulated by Swedish students from fourth to seventh grade. Forty-three semi-structured individual interviews were conducted with students. Qualitative analysis of data was performed by methods from…
Descriptors: Bullying, Grade 4, Grade 5, Grade 6
Iflazoglu, Ayten; Hong, Eunsook – Research Papers in Education, 2012
Turkish students' motivation sources, organisational approaches, physical needs and environmental and interpersonal preferences during the homework process were examined in 1776 students in Grades 5-8 from 10 randomly selected schools in two districts of a major urban city in Turkey. These constructs were examined to determine grade, gender,…
Descriptors: Homework, Socioeconomic Status, Student Motivation, Foreign Countries
Allal, Linda – Research Papers in Education, 2011
Since pedagogy is a key term in the Teaching and Learning Research Programme (TLRP) principles, it is of interest to examine the evolution of the concept of pedagogy in the French-language world of education, as well as the emergence of a new field of research called "didactics". Work on situated cognition provides a framework for…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Instruction, French, Scaffolding (Teaching Technique)
Evans, Michael; Fisher, Linda – Research Papers in Education, 2010
The last few years have seen the implementation of fundamental structural and curricular policy initiatives affecting the teaching of languages in schools in England. Several policy initiatives have been introduced by the government affecting the position and status of languages in schools, such as the development of foreign language teaching in…
Descriptors: Second Languages, Program Effectiveness, Foreign Countries, Second Language Instruction
Scheuer, Nora; de la Cruz, Montserrat; Pozo, Juan Ignacio; Echenique, Monica; Marquez, Maria Silvina – Research Papers in Education, 2009
This paper studies the process of learning to write from an insider perspective, by adopting the framework of implicit theories of learning. We interviewed 160 children attending kindergarten or primary education in public schools in Argentina (20 children from each of the eight grades from kindergarten to seventh grade). Main questions explored…
Descriptors: Learning Theories, Foreign Countries, Kindergarten, Elementary School Students
Thornberg, Robert – Research Papers in Education, 2008
School rules are usually associated with classroom management and school discipline. However, rules also define ways of thinking about oneself and the world. Rules are guidelines for actions and for the evaluation of actions in terms of good and bad, or right and wrong, and therefore a part of moral or values education in school. This study is a…
Descriptors: Classroom Techniques, Discipline, Ethnography, Values Education
Black, Paul; Swann, Joanna; Wiliam, Dylan – Research Papers in Education, 2006
The Learning How to Learn (LHTL) Projects study of learning was comprehensive in attempting to explore learning practices from several different perspectives. This paper reports one of these explorations: into the beliefs and attitudes of pupils. This was carried out using questionnaires composed of questions exploring beliefs about, and attitudes…
Descriptors: Learning, Age Differences, Student Attitudes, Grade 5