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Motivating Word Consciousness in Students from a High Poverty Environment and the Use of the Vocabulary Self Selection Strategy: A Mixed Methods Case Study
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Heather Hildenbrand – ProQuest LLC, 2023
Students from high-poverty environments often exhibit lower vocabulary levels compared to their higher socioeconomic peers. Addressing this vocabulary gap is crucial for their academic success. This ethnographic case study explores the effectiveness of the Vocabulary Self Selection strategy in motivating fourth-grade students from high poverty…
Descriptors: Elementary School Students, Grade 4, Disadvantaged Environment, Poverty
Comparisons of Creativity Performance and Learning Effects through Digital Game-Based Creativity Learning between Elementary School Children in Rural and Urban Areas
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Yeh, Yu-chu; Ting, Yu-Shan – British Journal of Educational Psychology, 2023
Background: Creativity is an important ability for problem-solving in both personal life and academic learning. Few creativity studies have investigated the development of children's creativity in disadvantaged rural areas or compared the rural-urban differences through digital game-based creativity learning. Understanding such differences can…
Descriptors: Elementary School Students, Grade 3, Grade 4, Grade 5
What Will We Do for the Poor, Disadvantaged, and Computer Illiterate?
Ashbrook, Richard M. – Instructional Innovator, 1984
Considers the impact of the lack of computer literacy and computer-assisted instruction on the socially and economically disadvantaged in terms of basic living skills as well as vocational and educational opportunities, and makes four recommendations for ensuring that all segments of society will share equally in the benefits of computer…
Descriptors: Computer Assisted Instruction, Computer Literacy, Daily Living Skills, Disadvantaged Environment
THE EARLY TRAINING PROJECT FOR DISADVANTAGED CHILDREN--A REPORT AFTER FIVE YEARS.
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GRAY, SUSAN W.; KLAUS, RUPERT A. – 1967
THE EARLY TRAINING PROJECT IS A FIELD RESEARCH STUDY WHICH IS CONCERNED WITH THE PROBLEM OF THE PROGRESSIVE RETARDATION OF THE CULTURALLY DEPRIVED IN THE PUBLIC SCHOOLS. THE CHILDREN INVOLVED IN THE STUDY WERE ALL NEGRO. FROM A GROUP OF 61 CULTURALLY DEPRIVED NEGRO PRESCHOOL CHILDREN, 3 GROUPS WERE CONSTITUTED BY RANDOMIZATION. THE FIRST OF THESE…
Descriptors: Achievement Gains, Blacks, Control Groups, Disadvantaged
Lifelong Learning: Exploring the Issues in an Area of Social Deprivation in Scotland.
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Cloonan, Martin; Crossan, Beth – Scottish Educational Review, 2002
Individual and focus-group interviews explored barriers and motivations to lifelong learning among residents of a disadvantaged area of Glasgow (Scotland). Some participants were motivated to pursue adult education to improve employment opportunities, but motivations related to social and community networks were also important. The current policy…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Disadvantaged Environment, Economically Disadvantaged, Education Work Relationship
Putting Bread on the Table: Literacy and Livelihood in Kenya. Knowledge and Information Management.
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Thompson, Ekundayo J. D. – 2002
The effects of literacy and livelihood programs on female learners' participation in literacy were examined through case studies of groups of women who participated in four literacy and income-earning projects in Kenya. Data were collected through focus group discussions and a questionnaire. The four programs were started between 1968 and 1999 and…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Literacy, Case Studies, Community Development