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Download full textAndrea Rolla; Gabriela Mottesi; Mel Wylen; Yetunde Akinola – Region 15 Comprehensive Center, 2024
This brief provides policymakers and practitioners with a comprehensive overview of the purpose, characteristics, uses, and types of Kindergarten Entry Assessments (KEAs). It emphasizes the importance of high-quality KEAs in guiding instructional practices and assessing developmental progress in young learners. It highlights that high-quality KEAs…
Descriptors: Kindergarten, School Readiness, Student Evaluation, Child Development
What Works Clearinghouse, 2015
In the 2014 report, "Closing the Achievement Gap Through Modification of Neurocognitive and Neuroendocrine Function: Results from a Cluster Randomized Controlled Trial of an Innovative Approach to the Education of Children in Kindergarten," researchers examined the impacts of "Tools of the Mind" on cognitive and academic…
Descriptors: Achievement Gap, Randomized Controlled Trials, Educational Innovation, Kindergarten
Direct linkDarabi, Aubteen; Hemphill, Jennifer; Nelson, David W.; Boulware, Wilma; Liang, Xinya – Advances in Health Sciences Education, 2010
This study investigated the effect of two instructional strategies, segmented and holistic, on the progression over time of learners' mental models toward that of an expert with the moderator of cognitive flexibility. Sixty-four juniors and seniors in a college metabolism course were randomly assigned to one of the two strategies for instruction…
Descriptors: Educational Strategies, Models, Individualized Instruction, College Students
Van Oteghen, Sharon; Jacobson, Phyllis A. – Journal of Physical Education and Recreation, 1981
Learning, beginning in infancy, depends chiefly upon the nature and quality of movement experiences. Since 50 percent of a child's potential for learning is developed by age five, it is essential that movement programs be devised for children of preschool age. Movement programs must be geared to the individual child's developmental level. (JN)
Descriptors: Cognitive Development, Developmental Stages, Individualized Instruction, Movement Education
Scruggs, Thomas E.; Mastropieri, Margo A.; Okolo, Cynthia M. – Focus on Exceptional Children, 2008
Science and social studies have much to offer to all learners--including those with disabilities. However, instruction in these subjects has often been overlooked in the quest to better understand and improve leaning in English/language arts and mathematics. As we demonstrate in this paper, science and social studies help students attain skills,…
Descriptors: Disabilities, Educational Opportunities, Social Studies, Teaching Methods
Holley, Freda M. – 1986
This reaction paper presented at a conference on compensatory education begins with reviews of three studies prepared for the program and staffing session of the conference and dealing respectively with student-to-instructor ratios, instructional setting, and summer programs. The paper then presents the view that huge gains in achievement will not…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Accountability, Cognitive Development, Compensatory Education
Jones, Earl, Ed.; Davis, Peter B., Ed. – 1977
The Edgewood Independent School District (San Antonio, Texas), using a mini-system of one high school, one middle school, and four elementary schools, conducted an Experimental Schools Program from 1972-1977 to test a local decision making, long-term innovative program to effect substantial changes in the affective and cognitive characteristics of…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Affective Behavior, Bilingual Education, Cognitive Development
