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Experiences Building Graphics Literacy Skills: Interviews with Teachers and Students
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Rosenblum, L. Penny; Zebehazy, Kim T.; Gage, Nicholas; Beal, Carole R. – Journal of Visual Impairment & Blindness, 2021
Introduction: Participants' perspectives are valuable in evaluating the effectiveness of an intervention. Methods: Interviews were conducted with teachers of students with visual impairments and students who completed an intervention designed to build graphics literacy skills. Results: Six themes were identified with corresponding subthemes. The…
Descriptors: Students with Disabilities, Visual Impairments, Program Effectiveness, Intervention
Experiences Building Graphics Literacy Skills: Interviews with Teachers and Students
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Rosenblum, L. Penny; Zebehazy, Kim T.; Gage, Nicholas; Beal, Carole R. – Grantee Submission, 2021
Introduction: Participants' perspectives are valuable in evaluating the effectiveness of an intervention. Methods: Interviews were conducted with teachers of students with visual impairments and students who completed an intervention designed to build graphics literacy skills. Results: Six themes were identified with corresponding subthemes. The…
Descriptors: Intervention, Visual Impairments, Teacher Attitudes, Teaching Methods
Discrete and Continuous Reasoning about Change in Primary School Classrooms
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de Beer, Huub; Gravemeijer, Koeno; van Eijck, Michiel – ZDM: The International Journal on Mathematics Education, 2015
To prepare students for participation in our society, where interpreting, representing, and manipulating of dynamic phenomena are becoming key activities, we believe that one should start developing a mathematical understanding of change at an early age. We therefore started a design research project to teach the concept of instantaneous speed in…
Descriptors: Mathematics Skills, Skill Development, Grade 5, Elementary School Students
Line Graph Learning
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Pitts Bannister, Vanessa R.; Jamar, Idorenyin; Mutegi, Jomo W. – Science and Children, 2007
In this article, the learning progress of one fifth-grade student is examined with regard to the development of her graph interpretation skills as she participated in the Junior Science Institute (JSI), a two-week, science intensive summer camp in which participants engaged in microbiology research and application. By showcasing the student's…
Descriptors: Grade 5, Microbiology, Cognitive Processes, Graphs
Fourth- and Fifth-Grade Students' Affective Response and Ability to Discriminate between Melody and Improvisation after Receiving Instruction in Singing and/or Playing a Piece in the Blues Style
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Parisi, Joseph – International Journal of Music Education, 2004
The purpose of this study was to assess fourth- and fifth-grade students' (9- and 10-year-olds') affective response and ability to discriminate between melody and improvisation after receiving instruction in singing and/or playing a piece in the blues style. Subjects (N= 102) were assigned to one of three equal-sized groups. Group 1 learned to…
Descriptors: Singing, Creative Activities, Grade 5, Grade 4
How Does Using Formative Assessment Empower Students in Their Learning?
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Campos, Jennifer; O'Hern, Joanne – Online Submission, 2007
This study was designed to increase student empowerment through the use of formative assessment. The targeted population consisted of first and fifth grade students in the same school. Evidence for the existence of the problem included teacher observation, students' lack of knowledge and skills to complete classroom assignments, and low test…
Descriptors: Grade 1, Grade 5, Student Surveys, Observation