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Direct linkMedcalf, John; Glynn, Ted; Moore, Dennis – Educational Psychology in Practice, 2004
In this study seven 10-year-old to 11-year-old students peer-tutored seven six-year-old students in writing over a 10-week period. Tutoring took place over 20-minute sessions four times per week in the six-year-old students' regular classes during their usual writing time. The first author trained the tutors to assist tutees to (1) produce a…
Descriptors: Student Motivation, Student Participation, Feedback, Tutors
Coelho, Jeffrey D. – Teaching Elementary Physical Education, 2005
An active learning environment is one in which students are able to "seek" out new experiences, "interpret" them, and "relate" them to previous experiences. This approach allows students to engage in independent thinking, problem solving, and guided discovery as they explore broad movement concepts. An active learning means that students are…
Descriptors: Active Learning, Teaching Methods, Instructional Design, Physical Education
Bennett, Deborah E.; Zentall, Sydney S.; French, Brian F.; Giorgetti-Borucki, Karen – Behavioral Disorders, 2006
Providing choice to individual students with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) has previously been demonstrated (in single-subject research) to reduce undesirable behavior but has failed to demonstrate gains that are independent of task difficulty or interests/ preferences. We examined choice of feedback type on a computerized math…
Descriptors: Hyperactivity, Attention Deficit Disorders, Symptoms (Individual Disorders), Behavior Modification
