item: #1 of 134 id: iejee-10 author: Griffin, Thomas D.; Wiley, Jennifer; Britt, M. Anne; Salas, Carlos R. title: The role of clear thinking in learning science from multiple-document ınquiry tasks date: 2017-07-25 words: 8982 flesch: 49 summary: Relevance processes in multiple document comprehension. Hence, the ability to learn about scientific phenomena from multiple documents is a critical skill for life-long learning. keywords: documents; evidence; information; inquiry; learning; model; reading; science; students; task; thinking; topic; understanding; wiley cache: iejee-10.pdf plain text: iejee-10.txt item: #2 of 134 id: iejee-103 author: Graham, Lori; Graham, Anna; West, Courtney title: From research to practice: The effect of multi-component vocabulary ınstruction on ıncreasing vocabulary and comprehension performance in social studies date: 2017-08-22 words: 6861 flesch: 53 summary: The authors designed a six-week intervention in which treatment group teachers were asked to spend 90 minutes per week of language arts time focused on social studies vocabulary instruction. The training included the use of each of the following: explicit instruction; student study teams; active engagement in learning tasks; vocabulary maps; connections webs; semantic feature analysis. keywords: cbm; checkpoints; comprehension; group; instruction; measures; reading; research; students; study; teachers; test; vocabulary cache: iejee-103.pdf plain text: iejee-103.txt item: #3 of 134 id: iejee-104 author: Kasparova, Irena title: The right to be included: Homeschoolers combat the structural discrimination embodied in their lawful protection in the Czech Republic date: 2017-08-22 words: 8513 flesch: 55 summary: At the same time, I conducted interviews The Right to be Included: Homeschoolers Combat the Structural Discrimination / Kašparová 163 with teachers and directors of the index schools1 that enroll homeschooling children and act as examining boards in their compulsory periodic examination. The different primary socialization of homeschooling children, with all its consequences, tests the validity, rigidity, and flexibility of the educational system in the Czech Republic. keywords: children; czech; education; families; family; homeschoolers; homeschooling; learning; order; parents; republic; right; school; state; system; time cache: iejee-104.pdf plain text: iejee-104.txt item: #4 of 134 id: iejee-105 author: Temur, Turan title: Editorial date: 2017-08-22 words: 790 flesch: 43 summary: We also noticed that IEJEE is reaching more and more researchers, teachers, students and policy makers, particularly after being indexed in ERIC - Education Resources Information Center, USA. Her findings suggest that teachers with high self-efficacy demonstrate higher level of effort and persistence with students, are more open to new ideas and new methods. keywords: students; study; teachers cache: iejee-105.pdf plain text: iejee-105.txt item: #5 of 134 id: iejee-106 author: Hall, Kathy; Horgan, Mary title: Introduction to the special ıssue: Contemporary ırish education date: 2017-08-22 words: 2409 flesch: 41 summary: Collectively, the papers in this volume offer a contemporary perspective on some key policies and practices in Irish education. The place of the arts in Irish education has rarely been guaranteed or without controversy in the primary and post-primary curriculum. keywords: education; ireland; irish; paper; research; school cache: iejee-106.pdf plain text: iejee-106.txt item: #6 of 134 id: iejee-108 author: Moynihan, Joseph A title: The transition year: A unique programme in Irish education bridging the gap between school and the workplace date: 2017-08-22 words: 5822 flesch: 53 summary: Transition Year work experience is the bridge that connects young people in the classroom with adult life and the world of work. When Transition Year students enter the workplace, they engage in a new International Electronic Journal of Elementary Education Vol.8, Issue2, 199-210, 2015 206 community of practice, a term developed by Wenger and Lave (1991), describing the social learning process that takes place when people are actively involved in a common pursuit. keywords: career; education; experience; learning; programme; school; students; transition; work; year cache: iejee-108.pdf plain text: iejee-108.txt item: #7 of 134 id: iejee-11 author: Zertuche, Amber; Gerard, Libby; Linn, Marcia C title: How do openers contribute to student learning? date: 2017-07-25 words: 6041 flesch: 53 summary: Black and Wiliam (1998) reviewed hundreds of studies and came to the conclusion that the use of student work for formative assessment and refinement of instruction is one of the most powerful ways to increase students’ learning gains, particularly among low achieving students. Gerard, Spitulnik, and Linn (2011) showed that when teachers use student work to refine their teaching, students’ learning benefits. keywords: assessment; ideas; learning; linn; opener; science; students; teacher; understanding; work cache: iejee-11.pdf plain text: iejee-11.txt item: #8 of 134 id: iejee-110 author: Fleming, Domnall title: Student voice: An emerging discourse in Irish education policy date: 2017-08-22 words: 11071 flesch: 51 summary: It was the introduction of external evaluation and school self- evaluation during the period between 2002 and 2012 that extended the policy discourse on student voice in Ireland following the establishment of student councils and the publication of the student council guidelines. In positioning student voice within the Irish education policy discourse it is imperative that this emergent and complex concept is explored and theorized in the context of its definition and motivation. keywords: children; council; discourse; education; evaluation; ibid; irish; policy; role; school; student; student council; student voice; voice cache: iejee-110.pdf plain text: iejee-110.txt item: #9 of 134 id: iejee-111 author: O'Donovan, Margaret title: The challenges of distributing leadership in Irish post-primary schools date: 2017-08-22 words: 13593 flesch: 46 summary: I seek to illuminate how school leadership practice in the schools connects with its object, i.e. the core of schooling - teaching and learning (Spillane, 2006), and how this construct of instructional leadership converges with conceptualizations of distributed leadership practice (Gronn, 2002; Spillane, 2006), by examining how leadership for learning is distributed in the schools. It considers school leadership within the context of contemporary distributed leadership theory. keywords: activity; case; education; leadership; leadership practice; learning; management; new; post; practice; principal; role; school; school leadership; study; teachers; work cache: iejee-111.pdf plain text: iejee-111.txt item: #10 of 134 id: iejee-112 author: Long, Siobhán Dowling title: The arts in and out of school: Educational policy, provision and practice in Ireland today date: 2017-08-22 words: 10430 flesch: 46 summary: The Irish Government’s Commitments to Arts Education? European experts Anne Bamford and Michael Wimmer have noted in their paper, The Role of Arts Education in Enhancing School Attractiveness: a literature review (2012) that “drama, dance, media arts and architecture are rarely if ever taught in their own right” (p. 5). keywords: arts; arts council; arts education; charter; children; council; curriculum; dublin; education; ireland; learning; national; people; primary; school; skills cache: iejee-112.pdf plain text: iejee-112.txt item: #11 of 134 id: iejee-115 author: Kirwan, Liz title: Mathematics curriculum in Ireland: The ınfluence of PISA on the development of project maths date: 2017-08-22 words: 8624 flesch: 40 summary: In spite of the difference in approach to content only a small number of PISA items are not covered by the Project Maths curriculum, these include 2-D and 3-D rotations of objects and it is argued that Project Maths students might not be familiar with relating information on a table to information on a map or chart (Merriman et al., 2014). Copyright © IEJEE www.iejee.com Mathematics Curriculum in Ireland: The Influence of PISA on the Development of Project Maths Liz KIRWAN University College Cork, keywords: assessment; certificate; education; examination; mathematics; mathematics education; maths; ncca; oecd; pisa; project; project maths; syllabus cache: iejee-115.pdf plain text: iejee-115.txt item: #12 of 134 id: iejee-117 author: Ahi, Berat title: A study to determine the mental models in preschool children’s conceptualization of a desert environment date: 2017-08-22 words: 8244 flesch: 62 summary: On the basis of the findings, it is considered that determining mental models in children in relation to different ecological concepts can be beneficial to teachers and curriculum programmers involved in environmental education. Keywords: Desert, Mental model, Draw and explain, Child, Ecological concept. keywords: age; animals; children; codes; concept; desert; drawings; education; environment; humans; journal; models; place; plants; study cache: iejee-117.pdf plain text: iejee-117.txt item: #13 of 134 id: iejee-118 author: Alila, Sanna; Määttä, Kaarina; Uusiautti, Satu title: How does supervision support inclusive teacherhood? date: 2017-08-22 words: 5956 flesch: 51 summary: The Multidimensional Nature of Supervision Due to its varied theoretical background and practices, supervision cannot be distinctively defined (Milne, 2007). According to supervision studies, teacher have been able to change their beliefs and raise their awareness when they have been given the opportunity to reflect on issues related to teaching and learning (Jordan, Schwartz, & McGhie-Richmond, 2009). keywords: development; education; learning; research; school; supervision; support; teacherhood; teachers; teaching; work cache: iejee-118.pdf plain text: iejee-118.txt item: #14 of 134 id: iejee-12 author: Anggoro, Florencia K.; Stein, Nancy L.; Jee, Benjamin D. title: Cognitive factors that influence children’s learning from a multimedia science lesson date: 2017-07-25 words: 7551 flesch: 55 summary: For example, some children stated that solid water molecules are frozen in place rather than locked in place. During the presentation of the organization, speed, and movement of water vapor molecules, the changeability of shape and volume were discussed. keywords: children; grade; learning; molecules; properties; read; science; states; stein; water cache: iejee-12.pdf plain text: iejee-12.txt item: #15 of 134 id: iejee-122 author: Kurtdede Fidan, Nuray title: Sensitivity of students to the natural environment, animals, social problems and cultural heritage date: 2017-08-22 words: 10286 flesch: 52 summary: Those participants whose fathers were the graduates of primary school had lower mean sensitivity scores than those participants whose fathers were the graduates of either high school or university. In order to analyze the appropriateness of the items in the scale for identifying students sensitivity about the natural environment, animals, cultural heritage and social problems, the scale was reviewed by seven field specialists working at a public university. keywords: animals; cultural; dimension; education; effects; environment; heritage; mean scores; mean sensitivity; participants; problems; scale; sensitivity; sensitivity scores; students; total; values cache: iejee-122.pdf plain text: iejee-122.txt item: #16 of 134 id: iejee-125 author: Koç, Ebru Melek title: A general investigation of the in-service training of English language teachers at elementary schools in Turkey date: 2017-08-22 words: 5671 flesch: 51 summary: In this sense, any kind of teacher training activities such as short courses, seminars, workshops, certificate/diploma programs and postgraduate  Ebru Melek Koç, Inönü University, ELT Department, Malatya, Turkey. High-quality education is based on teacher quality, and ‘continuousness’ is one of the most important factors in teacher training. keywords: activities; development; education; english; inset; language; service; teachers; teaching; training; turkey; university cache: iejee-125.pdf plain text: iejee-125.txt item: #17 of 134 id: iejee-127 author: Seraye, Abdullah M title: Short vowels versus word familiarity in the reading comprehension of arab readers: A revisited ıssue date: 2017-08-22 words: 14194 flesch: 50 summary: Subsequently, researchers also examined word recognition, sentence parsing, and text reading and comprehension to assess the extent to which the departure of a writing system from representing speech, as can be realized in the absence of short vowels/pointings and diacritics from script, might influence the reading process (Chitiri, 1991; Seraye, 2004; Shimron, 1993). Such a conflict can be explained in terms of the controlling procedures of the reading conditions and the reading texts used, which did not take into account that short vowels and diacritics are different forms that represent different aspects of the orthography, nor did it take into account the involvement of word frequency in text reading difficulty and thus the necessity of having similar texts (as can be achieved by using a matching procedure) in their experimental design. keywords: arabic; difference; effect; frequency; frequency text; means; readers; reading; reading comprehension; reading condition; reading process; text; vowels; word cache: iejee-127.pdf plain text: iejee-127.txt item: #18 of 134 id: iejee-128 author: Sumantri, Mohamad Syarif; Satriani, Retni title: The effect of formative testing and self-directed learning on mathematics learning outcomes date: 2017-08-22 words: 8839 flesch: 48 summary: Consequently, the stated hypothesis is scientifically proven: formative essay tests improve student learning results more than formative multiple choice tests. The empirically tested data for the formative essay and multiple choice tests showed that the tests have different levels of effectiveness for measuring student learning results, depending on the student’s level of self-directed learning. keywords: choice; choice tests; essay; essay tests; formative; learning; levels; mathematics; mathematics learning; outcomes; research; results; self; students; tests cache: iejee-128.pdf plain text: iejee-128.txt item: #19 of 134 id: iejee-13 author: Özerk, Kamil title: Editorial date: 2017-07-25 words: 578 flesch: 44 summary: This well presented special issue hopefully will be one of our sources of inspiration to continue to be a part of the amazing educational field of learning and instruction in the natural sciences. Since the 1990s comparative international studies, i.e. the Trends in International Mathematics and Science Study (TIMSS) and the new demands in the national and globalized labor markets revealed that the educational systems in all countries have to reconsider their existing approaches to the teaching of natural sciences. keywords: issue; sciences cache: iejee-13.pdf plain text: iejee-13.txt item: #20 of 134 id: iejee-130 author: Özerk, Kamil title: Editorial date: 2017-08-22 words: 887 flesch: 37 summary: Regardless of student ethnicity or socioeconomic status, learners felt empowered and enthusiastic about attending school and gained knowledge through inquiry and project-based opportunities. Another paper which addresses environmental consciousness is written by Dr. Laurie James of Western Washington University, United States. keywords: books; illustrations; learning cache: iejee-130.pdf plain text: iejee-130.txt item: #21 of 134 id: iejee-134 author: Harwood, Debra; Tukonic, Stephanie title: Babysitter or professional? Perceptions of professionalism narrated by Ontario early childhood educators date: 2017-08-22 words: 6339 flesch: 46 summary: Abstract Self-constructed perceptions of early childhood educator professionalism were explored in a small- scale mixed-method survey using convenience sampling. A ‘critical ecology’ of early childhood educator professionalism appears to be emerging. keywords: canada; care; childcare; childhood; childhood education; data; education; educators; experience; professionalism; research; role; study; years cache: iejee-134.pdf plain text: iejee-134.txt item: #22 of 134 id: iejee-136 author: Bayat, Seher title: The effectiveness of the creative writing instruction program based on speaking activities (CWIPSA) date: 2017-08-22 words: 4983 flesch: 58 summary: Sharples (1996) also suggested that creative writing activities should be performed within the cycle seen in Figure 1. However, examining the characteristics of this program and the informal researcher observations may give clearer ideas about the increase in the attitude scores since different programs/methods are applied for creative writing activities in every study. keywords: activities; class; control; experimental; group; instruction; program; speaking; students; test; writing cache: iejee-136.pdf plain text: iejee-136.txt item: #23 of 134 id: iejee-137 author: Purnomo, Yoppy Wahyu; Suryadi, Didi; Darwish, Sutawanir title: Examining pre-service elementary school teacher beliefs and instructional practices in mathematics class date: 2017-08-22 words: 6895 flesch: 51 summary: Keywords: Teacher beliefs, pre-service elementary school teachers, instructional practices, mathematics class Introduction Basically, the school mathematics-based research has provided a valuable contribution to what is currently the best process for the acquisition of knowledge and skills (De Corte, 2003). Empirically, on one hand, some researchers have found that teachers beliefs concerning the study of mathematics were consistent with their practices and behaviors in mathematics classes (e.g., Golafshani, 2005; Stipek, Givvin, Salmon, & MacGyvers, 2001; Zakaria & Maat, 2012). keywords: beliefs; education; knowledge; learning; mathematics; practices; research; sarijem; students; teachers; teaching cache: iejee-137.pdf plain text: iejee-137.txt item: #24 of 134 id: iejee-138 author: Kar, Tuğrul title: Prospective middle school mathematics teachers’ knowledge of linear graphs in context of problem-posing date: 2017-08-23 words: 8117 flesch: 52 summary: An empirical taxonomy of problem posing processes. Problem posing and development of pedagogical content knowledge in preservice teacher training. keywords: education; graphs; journal; knowledge; linear; mathematics; middle; posing; problem; representations; school; teachers; teaching cache: iejee-138.pdf plain text: iejee-138.txt item: #25 of 134 id: iejee-140 author: Kocaarslan, Mustafa title: An exploratory study of the relationships between reading comprehension competence, reading attitude and the vividness of mental imagery among Turkish fourth-grade students date: 2017-08-23 words: 5807 flesch: 51 summary: In the this study, two questions were expressed regarding the relationship between measures of reading attitude, vividness of mental imagery and reading comprehension among Turkish fourth-grade children. Keywords: Reading comprehension competence, reading attitude, vividness of mental imagery, fourth-grade students Introduction In recent years, research pertaining to reading comprehension has received much attention and has developed into one of the most popular areas where the act of reading is concerned (Aloqaili, 2012). keywords: attitude; comprehension; correlation; elementary; imagery; reading; reading comprehension; research; students; study; text; vividness cache: iejee-140.pdf plain text: iejee-140.txt item: #26 of 134 id: iejee-141 author: Özerk, Kamil title: Editorial date: 2017-08-23 words: 1012 flesch: 46 summary: They are addressing several important topics: STEM-education, teacher- student relationship, PISA, professionalism in early childhood education, child-centered reading education, creative writing, Math education, the challenges for Math teachers, teaching English as a third language and factors related to reading comprehension. The seventh article is examining pre-service elementary school teacher beliefs and Instructional practices in Math class in Indonesian context. keywords: article; reading; study cache: iejee-141.pdf plain text: iejee-141.txt item: #27 of 134 id: iejee-142 author: Savage, Michael J; Drake, Susan M title: Living transdisciplinary curriculum: Teachers’ experiences with the ınternational baccalaureate’s primary years programme date: 2017-08-23 words: 11278 flesch: 56 summary: For example, a study conducted in Australia found that the science proficiency level of Year 6 students enrolled in PYP schools was significantly higher than the national level (Campbell, Chittleborough, Jobling, Tytler, and Doig, 2014). Standardized test analysis conducted in New Zealand indicated that academic achievement within PYP schools generally exceeded the academic achievement of schools with similar school populations (Kushner, Cochise, Courtney, Sinnema & Brown, 2016). keywords: concepts; curriculum; framework; international; learning; participant; planning; pyp; school; skills; students; teachers; teaching; time cache: iejee-142.pdf plain text: iejee-142.txt item: #28 of 134 id: iejee-146 author: Alkış Küçükaydın, Menşure; Uluçınar Sağır, Şafak title: An investigation of primary school teachers’ PCK towards science subjects using an ınquiry-based approach date: 2017-08-23 words: 9126 flesch: 51 summary: Research on science teacher knowledge. The making of a teacher: Teacher knowledge and teacher education, New York: Teachers College Press. keywords: approach; content; education; inquiry; journal; knowledge; learning; methods; pck; research; school; science; students; study; teachers; teaching cache: iejee-146.pdf plain text: iejee-146.txt item: #29 of 134 id: iejee-147 author: Pishghadam, Reza; Abbasnejad, Hannaneh title: Emotioncy: A potential measure of readability date: 2017-08-23 words: 6193 flesch: 55 summary: Abstract Given the deficiencies of readability formulae as reliable tools for measuring text readability in educational settings, this study aims to offer a new measure to improve the current methods of testing the readability levels of texts through the incorporation of the newly-developed concept of emotioncy. Text readability in translation of children’s literature. keywords: difficulty; emotioncy; formulae; journal; language; pishghadam; readability; reading; students; study; text; words cache: iejee-147.pdf plain text: iejee-147.txt item: #30 of 134 id: iejee-149 author: Fedewa, Alicia L; Toland, Michael D; Usher, Ellen L; Li, Caihong R title: Elementary school students’ health-related self-beliefs date: 2017-08-23 words: 7279 flesch: 50 summary: The 6-item scale addressed five specific domains: family, friends, self, school, and living environment and a global evaluation (e.g., “I am happy with my overall life”) (Huebner et al., 2006). These statistics are alarming; not only are there serious health consequences for obese children and adolescents, but there are negative psychological and emotional consequences as well. keywords: children; concept; eating; efficacy; ethnicity; exercise; gender; grade; life; satisfaction; self; students; variables; vs. cache: iejee-149.pdf plain text: iejee-149.txt item: #31 of 134 id: iejee-15 author: Erwin, Heather; Fedewa, Alicia; Ahn, Soyeon title: Student academic performance outcomes of a classroom physical activity ıntervention: A pilot study date: 2017-07-27 words: 6452 flesch: 59 summary: These types of interventions have, however, been shown to significantly increase student PA levels and intensity in the classroom (Cardon, De Clercq, De Bourdeaudhuij, & Breithecker, 2004; Erwin, Abel, Beighle, & Beets, 2009; Erwin, Beighle, Morgan, & Noland, 2011; Gibson, Smith, DuBose, Greene, Bailey, Williams…Donnelly, 2008; Liu, Hu, Ma, Cui, Pan, Chang, et al., 2007; Mahar, Murphy, Rowe, Golden, Shields, & Raedeke, 2006; Stewart, Dennison, Kohl, & Doyle, 2004), as well as result in enhanced health outcomes such as improved BMI (Liu et al., 2007), decreased back/neck pain (Cardon et al., 2004), increased bone strength (Macdonald, Kontulainen, Khan, & McKay, 2007; Macdonald, Kontulainen, Beck, Khan, & McKay, 2008), and noise reduction in the classroom. Although helpful in assessing the long-term effects of PA interventions on children’s cognitive outcomes, these traditional measures are not useful in assessing short-term gains or improvement as a result of the intervention (Bricker, Yovanoff, Capt, & Allen, 2003; Pretti-Frontczak, 2002). keywords: activity; cbm; children; classroom; grades; intervention; mathematics; reading; scores; students; test; time cache: iejee-15.pdf plain text: iejee-15.txt item: #32 of 134 id: iejee-150 author: Otto, Wendi J title: What teachers should know about why these students perform so well: An examination of Korean-american achievement through student perspectives of East Asian parenting beliefs, styles and practices date: 2017-08-23 words: 6555 flesch: 46 summary: Therefore, the model will consider four individual factors: 1) student’s perceptions of their parents’ East Asian ideologies about child development and learning (chiao shun), 2) students’ perceptions of their parents’ East Asian ideologies about the mother/father-child relationship (guan), 3) students’ perceptions of East Asian parenting style, and 4) students’ perceptions of East Asian parenting practices. What are the common factors across East Asian parenting practices based on the perceptions of high-achieving, Korean-American primary school students? keywords: achievement; american; asian; east; korean; parenting; parents; practices; students; study cache: iejee-150.pdf plain text: iejee-150.txt item: #33 of 134 id: iejee-156 author: Özerk, Kamil; Ala'i Rosales, Shahla; Eikeseth, Svein title: Introduction to the special ıssue on autism spectrum disorders approaches to training, teaching, and treatment date: 2017-08-23 words: 1490 flesch: 40 summary: We are pleased to present a series of articles in this special issue that will aide special educators and administrators design and implement effective educational systems for children with autism spectrum disorders. So much of the progress achieved in improving the lives of children with autism can be attributed to the work of Dr. Ivar Lovaas. keywords: autism; behavior; children; implementation; özerk cache: iejee-156.pdf plain text: iejee-156.txt item: #34 of 134 id: iejee-16 author: Gallant, Dorinda J. title: Using first-grade teacher ratings to predict third-grade english language arts and mathematics achievement on a high-stakes statewide assessment date: 2017-07-27 words: 8266 flesch: 47 summary: The smaller standard deviations at the school level are possibly attributed to similarities in student scores across schools due to the cross-classification of students and schools and the fact that about 77% of students attended the same school both years. One of the most comprehensive scholarly reviews of the use of teacher-based judgment measures to assess student achievement was completed by Hoge and Coladarci (1989). keywords: achievement; assessment; domain; grade; language; mathematics; performance; ratings; school; scores; students; teacher cache: iejee-16.pdf plain text: iejee-16.txt item: #35 of 134 id: iejee-161 author: Cihon, Traci M; Cihon, Joseph H; Bedient, Guy M. title: Establishing a common vocabulary of key concepts for the effective ımplementation of applied behavior analysis date: 2017-08-23 words: 6117 flesch: 45 summary: Supervising behavior analysts also frequently have to ask behavior technicians to engage in very complex sets of behaviors in the context of interlocking behavioral contingences (IBCs) (Glenn, 1988) that go beyond the simple instruction of, “if the child does this, do this.” Recently, several authors have commented on the need for more and better quality training for behavior analysts (e.g., Hughes & Shook, 2007; Leaf et al., 2016; Leaf, * keywords: analysis; analyst; autism; behavior; example; features; student; supervising; technician; training; vocabulary cache: iejee-161.pdf plain text: iejee-161.txt item: #36 of 134 id: iejee-166 author: Miramontez, Shane K. H.; Schwartz, Ilene S. title: The effects of physical activity on the on-task behavior of young children with autism spectrum disorders date: 2017-08-23 words: 6612 flesch: 52 summary: Results In general, the results of this intervention suggest on task behavior during journal writing increased when students participated in an activity that required some movement immediately before that journal writing activity. The purpose of this study then is threefold: 1) to examine the effect that embedded physical activity has on the on-task behavior during subsequent academic tasks for young students with ASD, 2) to compare rates of on-task behavior based on different types of classroom based physical activities, and 3) to find an intervention that is easy to implement and sustainable in the context of a kindergarten classroom. keywords: activity; asd; autism; behavior; children; classroom; dance; intervention; journal; students; task; task behavior cache: iejee-166.pdf plain text: iejee-166.txt item: #37 of 134 id: iejee-168 author: Ingvarsson, Einar T. title: Tutorial: Teaching verbal behavior to children with ASD date: 2017-08-23 words: 10293 flesch: 46 summary: In the book Verbal behavior (VB), published in 1957, Skinner provided a conceptual interpretation of language and communication. In addition, he proposed new terms (e.g., mands, tacts, intraverbals) to categorize verbal behavior based on its function. keywords: analysis; autism; behavior; behavior analysis; child; children; control; intraverbal; journal; listener; response; skinner; stimulus; verbal cache: iejee-168.pdf plain text: iejee-168.txt item: #38 of 134 id: iejee-17 author: Berridge, Gina; Thomas, Jeff title: Questioning the validity of a state reading list date: 2017-07-27 words: 6531 flesch: 60 summary: Just So Stories 1912 M x Male White x Lily’s Purple Plastic Purse 1996 M x Female x x The Little Engine that Could 1930 M x Female x x Lyle, Lyle Crocodile 1965 M x Male White x Make Way for Ducklings 1941 M Caldecott Medal Female White x Grandfather’s Journey 1993 F x Male Latino x Caps For Sale 1940 M x Male White x The Cat in the Hat 1957 M x Male White x Corduroy 1968 M x Male x x Dinosaur Dream 1974 M x Male x x The Doorbell Rang 1989 F x Male/ Female White x Flossie and the Fox 1986 F x Female Black x Frog & Toad … 1970 M Caldecott Honor Male x x The Gingerbread.. 1998 M x Male White x The Giving Tree 1964 keywords: books; children; female; fiction; irl; k-2; list; male; reading; selections; white cache: iejee-17.pdf plain text: iejee-17.txt item: #39 of 134 id: iejee-170 author: Doan, Dai; Toussaint, Karen A. title: A parent-oriented approach to rapid toilet training date: 2017-08-23 words: 6527 flesch: 48 summary: 3) Urine alarms are often included during toilet training procedures. 4) Positive practice techniques are often included during toilet training procedures. keywords: behavior; child; elijah; parents; participants; peter; procedures; program; toilet; toileting; training cache: iejee-170.pdf plain text: iejee-170.txt item: #40 of 134 id: iejee-171 author: Eldevik, Sigmund; KAZEMİ, Ellie; Elsky, gREG title: Generalized use of past tense verbs in children with autism following a sufficient exemplar training procedure date: 2017-08-23 words: 5727 flesch: 57 summary: Idiosyncratic learning of other verbs continues over the course of months or years and at some point the generalized use of past tense verbs is established. Weekly hours, and years in EIBI programs along with their usage of past tense verb prior to the study, are also provided. keywords: criterion; generalization; participants; past; procedure; teaching; tense; training; verbs cache: iejee-171.pdf plain text: iejee-171.txt item: #41 of 134 id: iejee-172 author: Özerk, Kamil title: Editorial date: 2017-08-23 words: 288 flesch: 51 summary: At the back stage Dr. Turan TEMUR, Dr. Hayriye GÜL KURUYER, Dr. Gökhan ÖZSOY, Doctoral candidate Hasan TABAK, and Doctoral candidate Mustafa BAKIR, Doctoral Candidate Emel BAYRAK ÖZMUTLU, Saniye Nur GÜNDÜZ did a great job - as usual - with their close monitoring us during the entire process. I owe a great thankfulness to Dr. Shahla ALA'I-ROSALES and Dr. Svein EIKESETH who - without any hesitation - accepted my request to join me as guest editors of this special issue. keywords: autism cache: iejee-172.pdf plain text: iejee-172.txt item: #42 of 134 id: iejee-173 author: Cañada Cañada, Florentina; González-Gómez, David; Airado-Rodríguez, Diego; Acedo, María Antonia Dávila; Niño, Lina Viviana Melo title: Change in elementary school students’ misconceptions on material systems after a theoretical-practical instruction date: 2017-08-23 words: 5439 flesch: 49 summary: In the case of mixtures, before instruction students had difficult in classifying olive oil, granite stone and sand as mixtures. The Study (Method) Sample composition This study follows a descriptive and interpretative methodology with the aim of describing, explaining and understanding mental representations that the 5th grade of Elementary School students have in relation to different material systems. keywords: change; education; instruction; journal; misconceptions; mixture; pre; science; students; substances; test cache: iejee-173.pdf plain text: iejee-173.txt item: #43 of 134 id: iejee-175 author: Schugar, Heather R.; Dreher, Mariam Jean title: U. S. fourth graders’ ınformational text comprehension: ındicators from NAEP date: 2017-08-23 words: 16123 flesch: 53 summary: Elementary school students in the US performed statistically significantly lower on measures of informational reading than measures of literary reading on a recent international assessment, although this finding is not necessarily true for students worldwide. However, highly-constrained reading programs rarely provide opportunities for wide reading or promote classroom discussions, activities that have been shown to have a positive impact on student reading comprehension (Murphy et al., 2009). keywords: achievement; activities; children; comprehension; education; farms; fourth; income; information; journal; naep; reading; reading engagement; research; school reading; schools; students; study; text; text comprehension cache: iejee-175.pdf plain text: iejee-175.txt item: #44 of 134 id: iejee-179 author: Firoozi, Mohammad Reza; Kazemi, Ali; Jokar, Maryam title: The role of socio-cognitive variables in predicting learning satisfaction in smart schools date: 2017-08-23 words: 7113 flesch: 47 summary: More specifically, there is a dire need for more in-depth research to The Role of Socio-Cognitive Variables in Predicting Learning Satisfaction / Firoozi, Kazemi & Jokar 615 gain insights into what determines student learning satisfaction in a Smart school environment and to investigate what determinants influence student perceptions of Smart school contexts and their correlations. This study, which is consistent with the Social Cognitive Theory (Bandura, 1986), is an attempt to investigate the primary determinants affecting student learning satisfaction in a Smart school environment. keywords: cognitive; computer; education; efficacy; learning; performance; satisfaction; schools; self; smart; system cache: iejee-179.pdf plain text: iejee-179.txt item: #45 of 134 id: iejee-18 author: Mokhtari, Kouider; Niederhauser, Dale S. title: Vocabulary and syntactic knowledge factors in 5th grade students’ reading comprehension date: 2017-07-27 words: 6368 flesch: 45 summary: Additionally, we found that syntactic awareness explained a small amount of additional variance in reading comprehension beyond what was explained by vocabulary. Results from the 2009 and 2011 National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) indicate that students who scored higher on NAEP vocabulary questions also scored higher in reading comprehension (National Center for Education keywords: awareness; children; comprehension; grade; knowledge; language; performance; reading; reading comprehension; research; students; study; vocabulary cache: iejee-18.pdf plain text: iejee-18.txt item: #46 of 134 id: iejee-180 author: Kaya, Deniz title: Developing the irrational beliefs in mathematics scale (IBIMS): A validity and reliability study date: 2017-08-23 words: 10029 flesch: 57 summary: Keywords: Developing scale, Irrational belief, Mathematics, Reliability, Validity Introduction Today, with the increasing importance of basic mathematical skills and competencies, many countries have felt the necessity of re-designing their educational policies, and have performed profound changes for this purpose. The concept of irrational beliefs in which the cognitive structure and processes are determined with various assessment methods and which is one of the study areas of the Rational Emotive Behaviour Therapy (REBT) is one of these concepts. keywords: analysis; beliefs; education; factor; fit; ibims; inclination; items; journal; mathematics; scale; students; study; test; total; university; validity; values cache: iejee-180.pdf plain text: iejee-180.txt item: #47 of 134 id: iejee-181 author: Baltacı, Ali title: Relations between prejudice, cultural intelligence and level of entrepreneurship: A study of school principals date: 2017-08-23 words: 10917 flesch: 41 summary: In addition, cultural intelligence studies have been worked on with different concepts such as personality traits, negotiation, individual performance, interpersonal trust, organizational citizenship (Balcı et al., 2012; Ilhan & Cetin, 2014; Imai & Gelfand, 2010; Lee & Sukoco, 2010; Rockstuhl & Ng, 2008). Findings have shown that cultural intelligence is positively related to prejudice and entrepreneurship. keywords: analysis; cultural; education; entrepreneurship; experience; intelligence; international; journal; level; literature; management; managers; prejudice; principals; research; school; social; studies; study cache: iejee-181.pdf plain text: iejee-181.txt item: #48 of 134 id: iejee-182 author: Sharifi, Akram; Ghanizadeh, Afsaneh; Jahedizadeh, Safoura title: The effect of simulation on middle school students’ perceptions of classroom activities and their foreign language achievement: A mixed-methods approach date: 2017-08-23 words: 6850 flesch: 54 summary: Gentry, M., Gable, R. K., & Rizza, M. G. (2002) Students perceptions of classroom activities: are there grade-level and gender differences. So, when these perceptions are enhanced, student learning experiences and the effort they dedicate to learning will in turn improve (Csizer & Kormos, 2009) resulting in higher language achievement. keywords: activities; classroom; classroom activities; english; groups; interest; language; learning; perceptions; proficiency; simulation; students; test cache: iejee-182.pdf plain text: iejee-182.txt item: #49 of 134 id: iejee-183 author: Hlasna, Pavla; Klímová, Blanka; Poulova, Petra title: Use of information and communication technologies in primary education – A case study of the Czech Republic date: 2017-08-23 words: 5710 flesch: 60 summary: Umar, I. N., & Yusoff, M. T. M. (2014) A study on Malaysian teachers’ level of ICT skills and practices, and its impact on teaching and learning. Use of information and communication technologies in primary education / Hlásná, Klímová & Poulová 685  T3 – Teacher uses, explains, develops or accepts pupil’s ideas. keywords: education; ict; pupils; research; respondents; study; teachers; teaching; training; use cache: iejee-183.pdf plain text: iejee-183.txt item: #50 of 134 id: iejee-184 author: Huda, Miftachul; Jasmi, Kamarul Azmi; Hehsan, Aminudin; Mustari, Mohd Ismail; Shahrill, Masitah; Basiron, Bushrah; Gassama, Saikou Kawsu title: Empowering children with adaptive technology skills: Careful engagement in the digital ınformation age date: 2017-08-23 words: 9171 flesch: 41 summary: The findings revealed that the adaptive technology skills are needed in providing a considerable guidance for child protection and careful engagement towards digital information as part of their rights to natural growth and development. The protection of children digital era is significant and would be difficult to achieve without parental or instructor’s guidance to promote positive impact of technology on their lives rather than negative one. keywords: children; engagement; information; journal; knowledge; learning; media; protection; skills; technology; use; way cache: iejee-184.pdf plain text: iejee-184.txt item: #51 of 134 id: iejee-185 author: Mette, Ian M.; Range, Bret G.; Anderson, Jason; Hvidston, David J.; Nieuwenhuizen, Lisa; Doty, Jon title: The wicked problem of the intersection between supervision and evaluation date: 2017-08-23 words: 8580 flesch: 42 summary: Keywords: Teacher supervision, Teacher evaluation, Instructional supervision, Instructional leadership Introduction Across America teacher evaluation and supervision reform is underway, prompted in part by pressure from the federal No Child Left Behind (NCLB) flexibility waivers, Race to the Top, and Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA). Conclusions The literature regarding teacher supervision and teacher evaluation suggests separate functions that focus on different aspects of developing a school staff (Ponticell & Zepeda, 2004; Eady & Zepeda, 2007; Hazi & Ricinski, 2009). keywords: elementary; evaluation; improvement; leadership; principals; school; study; supervision; support; teacher evaluation; teacher supervision; teachers cache: iejee-185.pdf plain text: iejee-185.txt item: #52 of 134 id: iejee-1864 author: Yekeler Gökmen, Ayşe Dilek; Yıldız, Mustafa ; Aktaş, Nurhan; Ataş, Merve title: Handwriting Speeds of 4th–8th Grade Students date: 2023-01-19 words: 10322 flesch: 59 summary: The aim of this study was to examine the development of handwriting speeds in 4th–8th grade primary and secondary school students in terms of somevariables. As the grade level increased, mean handwriting speeds also increased. keywords: children; cursive; education; effect; gender; grade; grade level; grade students; handwriting; handwriting speed; handwriting style; letters; level; mean; research; school; school students; skills; speeds; students; studies; study cache: iejee-1864.pdf plain text: iejee-1864.txt item: #53 of 134 id: iejee-187 author: Demir, Semra; Kılınç, Mehmet; Doğan, Ali title: The effect of curriculum for developing efficient studying skills on academic achievements and studying skills of learners date: 2017-08-23 words: 6915 flesch: 56 summary: In this sense, if quality of education is desired to be increased, students with high level of academic achievements are intended and growing youth is expected to compete with the young population of other states with the effect of globalization, it is necessary to make students acquire efficient studying skills. Endowing learners with efficient studying skills means both making them study deliberatively and understand their courses and aiding them to succeed in their exams. keywords: achievement; control; curriculum; education; experiment; group; habits; inventory; learning; post; school; skills; students; studying; studying skills; test cache: iejee-187.pdf plain text: iejee-187.txt item: #54 of 134 id: iejee-19 author: Uusıauttı, Satu; Paksunıemı, Merja; Määttä, Kaarina title: At the roots of finnish elementary education – How were children raised in the first finnish elementary schools? date: 2017-07-27 words: 7523 flesch: 57 summary: [The change in elementary school teacher education curricula in Finland in 1917-1923].Joensuu: University of Joensuu. Abstract This study dissects the history of Finnish elementary education and the way children were raised during the initial phase of Finnish education in the 18th century. keywords: children; decree; education; elementary; finland; finnish; helsinki; history; määttä; paksuniemi; parents; punishments; pupils; school; teacher; university; uusiautti cache: iejee-19.pdf plain text: iejee-19.txt item: #55 of 134 id: iejee-190 author: Habók, Anita title: Evaluating a concept mapping training programme by 10 and 13 year-old students date: 2017-08-23 words: 6118 flesch: 58 summary: In summary, it may be concluded that based on our preliminary expectations, different types of concept map exercises had a clearly measurable effect on each other. There are numerous ways to visually construct concept maps. keywords: concept; concept mapping; group; knowledge; learning; mapping; maps; results; students; study cache: iejee-190.pdf plain text: iejee-190.txt item: #56 of 134 id: iejee-191 author: Erwin, Heather; Fedewa, Alicia; Ahn, Soyeon title: Student academic performance outcomes of a classroom physical activity ıntervention: A pilot study date: 2017-08-23 words: 6990 flesch: 59 summary: These types of interventions have, however, been shown to significantly increase student PA levels and intensity in the classroom (Cardon, De Clercq, De Bourdeaudhuij & Breithecker, 2004; Erwin, Abel, Beighle & Beets, 2009; Erwin, Beighle, Morgan & Noland, 2011; Gibson, Smith, DuBose, Greene, Bailey, Williams…Donnelly, 2008; Liu, Hu, Ma, Cui, Pan, Chang, et al., 2007; Mahar, Murphy, Rowe, Golden, Shields & Raedeke, 2006; Stewart, Dennison, Kohl & Doyle, 2004), as well as result in enhanced health outcomes such as improved BMI (Liu et al., 2007), decreased back/neck pain (Cardon et al., 2004), increased bone strength (Macdonald, Kontulainen, Khan & McKay, 2007; Macdonald, Kontulainen, Beck, Khan & McKay, 2008), and noise reduction in the classroom. Although helpful in assessing the long-term effects of PA interventions on children’s cognitive outcomes, these traditional measures are not useful in assessing short-term gains or improvement as a result of the intervention (Bricker, Yovanoff, Capt & Allen, 2003; Pretti-Frontczak, 2002). keywords: activity; children; classroom; intervention; reading; scores; t e; time cache: iejee-191.pdf plain text: iejee-191.txt item: #57 of 134 id: iejee-1927 author: Bernárdez-Gómez, Abraham; González Barea, Eva María title: Engagement in At-Risk Students Trajectories: A Narrative Perspective date: 2023-01-19 words: 7179 flesch: 54 summary: It is therefore important for schools in terms of student educational trajectories that factors comprising this dimension are relevant to the lives of students within a psychosocial context. Engagement in students´trajectories Student engagement, as a construct reflecting the link with school student tasks has been much examined over recent years (Cooley et al., 2021). keywords: analysis; educational; engagement; events; factors; life; research; risk; school; stage; students; trajectories; trajectory cache: iejee-1927.pdf plain text: iejee-1927.txt item: #58 of 134 id: iejee-193 author: Kolovelonis, Athanasios; Goudas, Marios; Dermitzaki, Irini title: Students’ performance calibration in a basketball dibbling task in elementary physical education date: 2017-08-23 words: 5311 flesch: 44 summary: Self-regulated learning and performance calibration among elementary physical education students. These results were discussed with reference to the development of performance calibration and self-regulated learning in physical education. keywords: accuracy; calibration; dribbling; education; grade; learning; performance; self; students cache: iejee-193.pdf plain text: iejee-193.txt item: #59 of 134 id: iejee-1938 author: Chatzopoulos, Dimitris; Varsamis, Panagiotis; Papadopoulos, Panagiotis; Giannakos, Athanasios; Lykesas, Georgios; Papadopoulou, Sophia D title: Effects of Balance Training Using Action Songs On Postural Control and Muscle Strength in Preschool Children date: 2023-01-19 words: 6383 flesch: 57 summary: Since this study is the first that examined the effects of balance training on preschool children’s muscle strength, the findings are discussed in relation to studies with cohorts of older children. A few recent studies on older children (8-12 years) showed that balance training with specific devices generated significant increases in strength (Wälchli et al., 2018). keywords: action; balance; children; control; cop; effects; et al; leg; muscle; preschool; strength; study; test; training cache: iejee-1938.pdf plain text: iejee-1938.txt item: #60 of 134 id: iejee-194 author: Luongo, Nicole title: Increasing elementary school teachers' awareness of gender inequity in student computer usage date: 2017-08-23 words: 13056 flesch: 59 summary: Motivating boys and motivating girls: Does teacher gender really make a difference? This concentration is particularly important for technology teachers and coordinators, many of whom have relatively little formal training in gender education. keywords: boys; computer; education; equity; gender; gender equity; girls; grade; grade teacher; group; intervention; sample; school; students; study; teachers; technology; writer cache: iejee-194.pdf plain text: iejee-194.txt item: #61 of 134 id: iejee-195 author: Ryan, Thomas G.; Gottfried, Jodi title: Elementary supervision and the supervisor: Teacher attitudes and inclusive education date: 2017-08-23 words: 4696 flesch: 46 summary: The need to examine teacher attitudes can be linked directly to classroom cohesion and socio-emotional climate within classrooms (Mdikana, Ntshangase, and Mayekiso, 2007, p. 130). Professional Development The literature concerning teacher attitudes and inclusive education showed an obvious reason why concerns toward inclusive education have continued throughout the years. keywords: attitudes; education; inclusion; staff; students; supervisor; teachers cache: iejee-195.pdf plain text: iejee-195.txt item: #62 of 134 id: iejee-1958 author: Boz, Tugba title: Teacher Professional Development for STEM Integration in Elementary/Primary Schools: A Systematic Review date: 2023-07-03 words: 7798 flesch: 44 summary: What is the current state of teacher PD in integrated STEM education in elementary schools? 2. Characteristics of Effective Professional Development The literature proposes well-grounded recommendations for designing and delivering effective teacher PD. keywords: development; education; elementary; et al; learning; literature; professional; programs; research; stem; studies; teachers cache: iejee-1958.pdf plain text: iejee-1958.txt item: #63 of 134 id: iejee-1961 author: Cossio-Bolaños, Marco; Vidal-Espinoza, Ruben; Alvear-Vasquez, Fernando; De la Torre Choque, Christian; Vidal-Fernandez, Nicolas; Sulla-Torres, Jose; Monne de la Peña, Rodrigo; Gomez-Campos, Rossana title: Validation of a Scale to Assess Activities of Daily Living at Home in Children and Adolescents With Autism Spectrum Disorder date: 2023-01-19 words: 4657 flesch: 57 summary: For the first case, Cronbach's alpha was used evidencing high reliability values r = 0.87, being similar to other studies conducted in ASD populations (Breidbord & Croudace, 2013; Brugha et al. 2020; Skuse et al. 2005). https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6509-5707 138 December 2022, Volume 15, Issue 2, 137-144 skills relative to their cognitive skills (Bal et al. 2015; Farley et al. 2009; Marsack-Topolewski et al. 2021). keywords: activities; asd; autism; children; home; house; living; mobility; parents; reliability; scale; values cache: iejee-1961.pdf plain text: iejee-1961.txt item: #64 of 134 id: iejee-1969 author: Jones, Meredith; McNulty, Carol title: ‘Everybody is sick and there won’t be a cure’: The Power of Privileging Student Voices Through COVID-19 Drawings date: 2023-01-19 words: 7272 flesch: 57 summary: How Children Conceptualize Sickness The health industry has long turned to children’s drawings to better understand how children perceive illness. Our study addressed a dearth of U.S. studies documenting the adverse effects the pandemic created and continues to have for children by analyzing their drawings. keywords: children; covid-19; drawings; education; health; journal; lockdown; pandemic; research; school; students; study cache: iejee-1969.pdf plain text: iejee-1969.txt item: #65 of 134 id: iejee-1974 author: Ubbes, Valerie; Whitesel, Sophia title: Use of an eBook for Oral Health Literacy© Curriculum to Elicit Functional Health Knowledge, Decision Making, and Goal Setting Among School-Aged Children date: 2023-01-19 words: 10941 flesch: 59 summary: Health literacy: Implications for child health. Evaluation of an eBook for Oral Health Literacy© to promote child health: Readability, suitability, understandability, actionability, and gist-based message design. keywords: behaviors; chapter; children; curriculum; dental; dentist; ebook; health; health education; health literacy; knowledge; nutrition; reading; school; students; teeth; ubbes; words cache: iejee-1974.pdf plain text: iejee-1974.txt item: #66 of 134 id: iejee-1994 author: Pirc, Tina; Pečjak, Sonja; Podlesek, Anja; Štirn, Mateja title: Perceived Parenting Styles and Emotional Control as Predictors of Peer Bullying Involvement date: 2023-06-06 words: 6910 flesch: 44 summary: Student emotional control is significantly negatively associated with frequency of involvement in all roles of bullying, but the correlations are small. Parenting styles and emotional control Fosco and Grych (2012) point out that children's emotional regulation is initially shaped by their first interpersonal context, the family, and that children exhibited more emotional regulation when their parents showed warmth and sensitivity to their emotions. keywords: authoritative; bullying; children; control; involvement; parenting; parents; peer; peer bullying; regulation; students; study; style cache: iejee-1994.pdf plain text: iejee-1994.txt item: #67 of 134 id: iejee-20 author: Iwai, Yuko title: Multicultural children’s literature and teacher candidates’ awareness and attitudes toward cultural diversity date: 2017-07-27 words: 6622 flesch: 43 summary: While 62 % of the participants in the study of Milner et al. indicated they disagreed with the statement about correcting children’s spoken language by modeling without explanation, approximately half of the participants in Larke’s study agreed with this statement. Brown (2004a) examined the influence of instructional methodology on cultural diversity awareness of teacher education students in a cultural diversity course. Such educators’ attitudes toward multicultural education would generate a negative impact on students. keywords: awareness; books; candidates; cdai; children; diversity; education; literature; students; teacher cache: iejee-20.pdf plain text: iejee-20.txt item: #68 of 134 id: iejee-200 author: Viseu, Floriano; Oliveira, Inês Bernardo title: Open-ended tasks in the promotion of classroom communication in mathematics date: 2017-08-23 words: 7510 flesch: 54 summary: The change in the way that she encouraged student communication gave the impression that it was due, as advocated by Stein and Smith (1998), to the higher cognitive level of the task that she proposed, which stimulated the discussion and formulation of conjectures. Regardless of the study topic, the teaching of mathematics currently recommends the use of strategies which value student activity over a teaching process that is essentially centred on the activity of the teacher, where students mainly listen to and do what the teacher asks (Nicol, 1999, NCTM, 2007). keywords: class; classroom; communication; education; mariana; mathematics; students; tasks; teacher cache: iejee-200.pdf plain text: iejee-200.txt item: #69 of 134 id: iejee-202 author: Wood, Tracy Darrin title: Teacher perceptions of gender-based differences among elementary school teachers date: 2017-08-23 words: 10705 flesch: 53 summary: Because of the low number of male elementary teachers, one male teacher who ineffectively motivates his students might artificially inflate negative stereotypes about male teachers; on the other hand, such inflation may not occur with the relatively large population of female teachers. More than half of the participants perceived differences between female and male elementary teachers, including beliefs that female teachers are more nurturing, that male teachers are more laid back, and that male teachers are more dominant and commanding with students. keywords: differences; education; elementary; female; gender; male; participants; respondents; role; school; students; survey; teachers cache: iejee-202.pdf plain text: iejee-202.txt item: #70 of 134 id: iejee-2047 author: Temur, Turan; Sezer, Taner title: The Agenda of The Reading Teacher Journal on Reading and Reading Skills: A Corpus Analysis in the Last Decade date: 2023-06-06 words: 7686 flesch: 56 summary: It seems that the acquisition and development of reading skills is a gradual process that starts with the letter-sound relationship and leads to capturing and interpreting the meaning in the text. The verbs forming collocation with reading consist of action, improvement, effective, goal- oriented, problem solving, and impact verbs for reading skills. keywords: collocations; comprehension; concepts; corpus; frequency; reading; studies; teacher; usage; years cache: iejee-2047.pdf plain text: iejee-2047.txt item: #71 of 134 id: iejee-2051 author: Cihon, Joseph H.; Leaf, Justin B.; Kazemi, Ellie title: Editors’ Note: Important Topics in Applied Behavior Analysis as it Relates to Autism date: 2023-05-23 words: 959 flesch: 35 summary: Furthermore, this special issue includes a variety of perspectives within ABA and autism intervention in an effort to provide the reader with pathways forward for behavior analysts, parents, and other professionals. Leaf and colleagues discuss the difficult crossroads behavior analysts can find themselves in when navigating working collaboratively while remaining faithful to the principles of our science. keywords: aba; asd; individuals cache: iejee-2051.pdf plain text: iejee-2051.txt item: #72 of 134 id: iejee-2052 author: Zane, Thomas; Weiss, Mary Jane; Cihon, Joseph H.; Leaf, Ron title: One Worldview to Rule Them All date: 2023-05-23 words: 9001 flesch: 41 summary: To maximize positive impact on the consumer, and to stay true to scientific roots, behavior analysts must adhere to the worldview of behavior analysis and radical behaviorism. Radical behaviorism is the worldview of behavior analysts and this perspective drives how we think about behavior, assess the influences on behavior, and develop strategies to change behavior. keywords: analysts; behavior; behavior analysis; behaviorism; journal; practice; science; sensory; skinner; treatment; worldview cache: iejee-2052.pdf plain text: iejee-2052.txt item: #73 of 134 id: iejee-2053 author: Leaf, Justin B.; Cihon, Joseph H. ; Ferguson, Julia L.; Milne, Christine; Oppenheim-Leaf, Misty L. title: The Crossroads: Interdisciplinary Teams and Alternative Treatments date: 2023-05-23 words: 7540 flesch: 35 summary: Behavior analysts value effective collaboration with professionals within and across different disciplines and with our consumers. Despite this, behavior analysts have continued to discuss collaboration with interdisciplinary teams within the peer-reviewed literature (e.g., Bowman et al., 2021; Kelly & Tincani, 2013; LaFrance et al., 2019). keywords: analysis; analyst; autism; behavior; behavior analysis; interventions; leaf; research; team; treatments cache: iejee-2053.pdf plain text: iejee-2053.txt item: #74 of 134 id: iejee-2054 author: Dillenburger, Karola; Keenan, Mickey title: Autism and Behavior Analysis: From Dissonance to Dialogue date: 2023-05-23 words: 7108 flesch: 57 summary: Exclusion in all its many guises is an ugly thing and, in this paper, we discuss consequences that arise for autistic individuals who have particularly high support needs (American Psychiatric Association, 2013; Lord et al., 2022), if applied behavior analysis (ABA)-based services were abolished or excluded (Graber & Graber, 2023). Some still- current dimensions of applied behavior analysis. keywords: aba; analysis; autism; behavior; behavior analysis; children; dillenburger; journal; keenan; parents; people; science cache: iejee-2054.pdf plain text: iejee-2054.txt item: #75 of 134 id: iejee-2055 author: Liu, Nicholas title: Excessively Positive Narratives Diminish Autistic People of All Ages date: 2023-05-23 words: 1545 flesch: 45 summary: Current discourse about autism, which is often centered around children and inspirational stories, either excludes adults or infantilizes autistic people of all ages. Because I surpassed my original prognosis so drastically, advocacy and media organizations have invited me to share my insight to parents, educators, and doctors hoping to advance the cause of supporting autistic people and promote ABA as a humane and effective treatment, at least when applied correctly. keywords: autism; children; people cache: iejee-2055.pdf plain text: iejee-2055.txt item: #76 of 134 id: iejee-2056 author: Gerhardt, Peter F.; Bahry, Shanna; Driscoll, Natalie; Cauchi, Jessica; Mason, Brian K.; Deshpande, Madhura title: Adulthood Begins in Preschool: Meaningful Curriculum in Support of Increased Independence for Individuals with Autism date: 2023-05-23 words: 7847 flesch: 46 summary: doi:https://doi. org/10.1017/S1041610215001490 Morris, C., Detrick, J. J., & Peterson, S. M. (2021). org/10.1023/A:1016020320752 Leaf, J. B., Leaf, R., McEachin, J., Taubman, M., Ala'i- Rosales, S., Ross, R. K., Smith, T., & Weiss, M. J. (2016). keywords: adults; autism; behavior; curriculum; disabilities; et al; individuals; intervention; journal; skills; spectrum cache: iejee-2056.pdf plain text: iejee-2056.txt item: #77 of 134 id: iejee-2057 author: Melton, Britany; Marchese, Nancy; Weiss, Mary Jane title: Leading with Compassion: A Discussion and Steps Forward for Behavior Analysts date: 2023-05-23 words: 5644 flesch: 40 summary: Compassionate behaviors are just that, behaviors. This is a hallmark of ABA intervention and is easily applied to situations that would improve compassionate behaviors on the part of the RBT. keywords: analysis; autism; behavior; behavior analysis; care; et al; practice; skills cache: iejee-2057.pdf plain text: iejee-2057.txt item: #78 of 134 id: iejee-2058 author: Kristiansen, Sarah V. title: A Summary of the Recommendations to Increase Cultural Responsiveness in the Field of Applied Behavior Analysis date: 2023-05-23 words: 9292 flesch: 38 summary: The terms used most often throughout the current paper will include cultural responsiveness, cultural humility, and cultural awareness. 236 January 2023, Volume 15, Issue 3, 233-245 to services (e.g., Beaulieu et al., 2019; Brodhead, 2019; Fong et al., 2016; Jimenez-Gomez & Beaulieu, 2022; Mathur & Rodriguez, 2021; Neely et al., 2020; Sugai et al., 2012; Syed et al., 2023; Wright, 2019). Rohrer et al. (2021) summarized the status of the field of behavior analysis as it relates to compassionate care and suggested a checklist, called the Compassion and Collaboration Tool, that could be used in guiding practitioner behavior in this area. keywords: analysis; behavior; behavior analysis; client; et al; family; field; fong; intervention; practice; practitioners; recommendations; responsiveness cache: iejee-2058.pdf plain text: iejee-2058.txt item: #79 of 134 id: iejee-2060 author: Kazemi, Ellie title: Is Accreditation, Like a Colonoscopy, Good for You? date: 2023-05-23 words: 6057 flesch: 35 summary: That is, physicians’ lack of awareness of newer practice guidelines because of a fast pace evolving literature may be overcome through discussions about accreditation standards and requirements to pass. As noted before, accreditation evaluation only provides a birds- eye view from a mere snapshot in time; therefore, a compliance review department enables the accrediting body to promote accountability and adherence to the standards across time (for example, see https://www.bhcoe.org/become-a-bhcoe/ report-a-compliance-concern/; BHCOE, 2022). keywords: accreditation; accrediting; analysis; behavior; evaluation; health; healthcare; organizations; patient; process; quality; service; standards cache: iejee-2060.pdf plain text: iejee-2060.txt item: #80 of 134 id: iejee-2063 author: Dixon, Mark R.; Yi, Zhihui; Chastain, Amanda N.; Matthews, Meredith T. title: Improving the Methodological, Analytical, and Cultural Impact of Behavior Analysis Via Utilization of Group Design Methods and Statistical Analyses date: 2023-05-23 words: 9453 flesch: 45 summary: One of the most distinguishable characteristics of the field of behavior analysis is its reliance on a research method approach entitled “single-subject design” (Cooper et al., 2007; DeRosa et al., 2019). In the early days of behavior analysis, B. F. Skinner himself recommended this departure from traditional psychological statistical methods and analysis because: Keywords: Group Design Methodology, Research Design, Statistics, Single- Subject Design Received : 1 February 2023 Revised : 7 February 2023 Accepted : 7 March 2023 DOI : 10.26822/iejee.2023.300 a,* keywords: aba; behavior; behavior analysis; design; dixon; et al; field; group; journal; participants; practice; research; subject; treatment cache: iejee-2063.pdf plain text: iejee-2063.txt item: #81 of 134 id: iejee-2064 author: Saunders, Melissa S. title: Supervision Strategies for Treatment Fidelity and Job Satisfaction in Applied Behavior Analysis Services date: 2023-05-23 words: 11056 flesch: 42 summary: There is a tremendous investment required of the clinical supervisor in training behavior technicians on their teams; each program is personalized for the individual receiving treatment, requiring specific training on protocols and ongoing oversight provided to a behavior technician by a Board Certified Behavior Analyst (BCBA; BACB, 2014; Odom et al., 2010; Volkmar et al., 2014). To improve behavior technicians training, Reid et al. keywords: baseline; behavior; delivery; fidelity; intervention; job; job satisfaction; latency; maintenance; participant; reinforcement; satisfaction; supervision; treatment cache: iejee-2064.pdf plain text: iejee-2064.txt item: #82 of 134 id: iejee-2066 author: Özerk, Kamil title: Editorial date: 2023-05-23 words: 291 flesch: 50 summary: I do not have any doubt that the topics and concerns they are addressing will contribute to eye-opening and strengthen scientific awareness and scientific seriosity in the field. They are doing this while we are celebrating AUTISM AWARENESS MONTH of April. keywords: field cache: iejee-2066.pdf plain text: iejee-2066.txt item: #83 of 134 id: iejee-21 author: Zousel, Miranda L.; Rule, Audrey C; Logan, Stephanie R. title: Teaching primary grade students perfectionism through cartoons compared to bibliotherapy date: 2017-07-27 words: 8702 flesch: 52 summary: Perfectionism lessons can be taught in small or Teaching Perfectionism Through Cartoons / Zousel, Rule & Logan 202 large group settings at all age and ability levels. The authors of the current study had permission to use a set of cartoons focusing on perfectionism concepts that were made by graduate students in a gifted education course taught by the second author. keywords: cartoons; children; concepts; education; group; journal; lessons; perfectionism; rule; students; study; teacher; teaching cache: iejee-21.pdf plain text: iejee-21.txt item: #84 of 134 id: iejee-213 author: Pae, Hye K.; Sevcik, Rose A. title: The role of verbal working memory in second language reading fluency and comprehension: A comparison of English and Korean date: 2017-08-24 words: 10278 flesch: 55 summary: What is the individual contribution of phonological working memory, verbal digit working memory, and sentence verbal working memory to L1 and L2 reading for English-speaking bilinguals in the U.S. who learn Korean as L22? What is the individual contribution of phonological working memory, verbal digit working memory, and verbal sentence working memory to L1 and L2 reading for Korean-speaking bilinguals in Korea who learn English as L2? keywords: children; comprehension; digit; english; fluency; korean; language; memory; phonological; reading; step; verbal; working; working memory cache: iejee-213.pdf plain text: iejee-213.txt item: #85 of 134 id: iejee-214 author: Ray, Melissa N.; Meyer, Bonnie J. F. title: Individual differences in children’s knowledge of expository text structures: A review of literature date: 2017-08-24 words: 8884 flesch: 47 summary: In particular, few studies have examined the influence of comprehension skill on multiple text structure structures (Englert & Hiebert, 1984; Meyer et al., 1980). First we review research which has examined the influence of two textual characteristics: the hierarchical organization of macro-and micro-level propositions and the type of text structure (e.g. collection, comparison, problem-and-solution). keywords: awareness; comparison; comprehension; knowledge; meyer; readers; reading; research; structure; text; text structure cache: iejee-214.pdf plain text: iejee-214.txt item: #86 of 134 id: iejee-215 author: Oakhill, Jane; Yuill, Nicola; Garnham, Alan title: The differential relations between verbal, numerical and spatial working memory abilities and children's reading comprehension date: 2017-08-24 words: 13264 flesch: 59 summary: The results support the view that working memory tasks that require the processing and recall of symbolic information (words and numbers) are better predictors of reading comprehension than tasks that require visuo-spatial storage and processing. However, they compared verbal working memory only with visuo-spatial tasks (not numerical working memory) and only three of the studies they review included more than one type of working memory task. keywords: ability; children; comprehension; memory; numerical; reading; reading comprehension; span; spatial; task; tests; verbal; working; working memory cache: iejee-215.pdf plain text: iejee-215.txt item: #87 of 134 id: iejee-217 author: Meyer, Bonnie J. F.; Ray, Melissa N. title: Structure strategy interventions: Increasing reading comprehension of expository text date: 2017-08-24 words: 14446 flesch: 54 summary: First, we review the research that has served as a foundation for many of the studies examining the effects of text structure instruction. Text structures generally can be grouped into six categories: comparison, problem-and-solution, causation, sequence, collection, and description. keywords: comprehension; grade; ideas; instruction; meyer; problem; readers; reading; research; signaling; strategy instruction; structure strategy; structures; students; text; text structure; use cache: iejee-217.pdf plain text: iejee-217.txt item: #88 of 134 id: iejee-22 author: Özerk, Kamil title: Editorial date: 2017-07-27 words: 1377 flesch: 44 summary: In the second article Dr. Berridge and Dr. Thomas examined the 79 fiction selections of a reading list for K-2 grades which was sponsored by the educational authorities of the State of Indiana, USA. The article is both critical and constructive in the sense that Dr. Berridge and Dr. Thomas on the one hand pinpoint the proplematic sides of the reading list and on the other hand they show the way how the disfunctional aspects of a such policy can be eliminated. keywords: article; education; reading cache: iejee-22.pdf plain text: iejee-22.txt item: #89 of 134 id: iejee-220 author: Alshumaimeri, Yousif title: The effects of reading method on the comprehension performance of Saudi EFL students date: 2017-08-24 words: 5977 flesch: 50 summary: It is possible that the Saudi scholastic environment provides an ideal setting for allowing oral reading methods to support significant gains in reading comprehension. Readers may find that while comprehension is not necessarily bolstered by practicing oral reading methods, memorization and concentration may be enhanced by employing oral reading techniques, either in the classroom or during private study. keywords: comprehension; language; method; passage; reading; research; saudi; students; study cache: iejee-220.pdf plain text: iejee-220.txt item: #90 of 134 id: iejee-221 author: Baker, Lindda; Dreher, Mariam Jean; Shiplet, Angela Katenkamp; Beall, Lisa Carter; Voelker, Anita N.; Garrett, Adia J.; Schugar, Heather R.; Finger-Elam, Maria title: Children’s comprehension of informational text: Reading, engaging, and learning date: 2017-08-24 words: 17157 flesch: 56 summary: Accordingly, the purpose of this article is to describe the study in the context of the growing body of knowledge on informational text comprehension and use in the early elementary grades. To address our specific interest in informational text comprehension, the passages on all four forms of the GMRT comprehension subtests were classified as fiction or nonfiction, with nonfiction further categorized as narrative-informational or expository. keywords: baker; books; children; classroom; comprehension; expository; fall; grade; informational; instruction; motivation; project; reading; scores; spring; students; table; teachers; text; text infusion cache: iejee-221.pdf plain text: iejee-221.txt item: #91 of 134 id: iejee-222 author: McNamara, Danielle S.; Ozuru, Yasuhiro; Floyd, Randy G. title: Comprehension challenges in the fourth grade: The roles of text cohesion, text genre, and readers’ prior knowledge date: 2017-08-24 words: 15321 flesch: 67 summary: Specifically, we predicted an advantage for low cohesion texts (i.e., a reverse cohesion effect) when the texts were relatively familiar (i.e., narratives) and when the reader had sufficient knowledge to fill in the cohesion gaps (i.e., high knowledge readers). The roles of text cohesion, text genre, and readers’ prior knowledge Danielle S. McNAMARA ∗∗∗∗ Arizona State University, United States Yasuhiro OZURU University of Alaska Anchorage, United States Randy G. FLOYD The University of Memphis, United States Abstract We examined young readers’ comprehension as a function of text genre (narrative, science), text cohesion (high, low), and readers’ abilities (reading decoding skills and world knowledge). keywords: children; cohesion; cohesion texts; comprehension; decoding; grade; heat; high; knowledge; low; mcnamara; narrative; plants; readers; reading; recall; salvador; text cache: iejee-222.pdf plain text: iejee-222.txt item: #92 of 134 id: iejee-226 author: Ryan, Thomas G.; Telfer, Leslie title: A review of (elementary) school self-assessment processes: Ontario and beyond date: 2017-08-24 words: 7535 flesch: 47 summary: School effectiveness research as a starting point for school self evaluation, Acco, Leuven. http://www.umanitoba.ca/publications/cjeap/articles/ryan_joong.html A review of (Elementary) School Self-Assessment Processes / Ryan & Telfer 189 Appendix A International Electronic Journal of Elementary Education Vol.3, Issue 3, July, 2011 190 Appendix B A review of (Elementary) School Self-Assessment Processes / Ryan & Telfer We must be careful not to use SSA as window dressing for accountability purposes because, “internationally, there is increasing evidence of a shift from confrontational forms of school evaluation primarily concerned with external accountability toward internal systems more focused on capacity building for self- evaluation and professional development” (McNamara, et al., 2011, p. 64). keywords: accountability; assessment; education; evaluation; improvement; ontario; process; research; school; school self; self cache: iejee-226.pdf plain text: iejee-226.txt item: #93 of 134 id: iejee-229 author: Özerk, Kamil title: Editorial date: 2017-08-24 words: 692 flesch: 41 summary: At the same time it’s important to present research based ideas, programs and methods that can help elementary teachers to teach students with learning disabilities letter sounds, sight words and math facts. International Electronic Journal of Elementary Education Vol.3, Issue 3, July, 2011 vi The third article is addressing assessment of bilingual children with inattention, overactivity and impulsivity. keywords: children; education; issue cache: iejee-229.pdf plain text: iejee-229.txt item: #94 of 134 id: iejee-23 author: Bang, EunJin title: Exploring impacts of the EED 420 science methods course on pre-service elementary teachers’ views regarding the nature of science date: 2017-08-01 words: 5165 flesch: 57 summary: Also examined were NOS characteristics that pre-service teachers incorporated into their science lesson plans and peer teachings, during the course. The study posits that a mere one semester-long science method’s course is insufficient to adequately improve understanding of the NOS, and to establish a sufficiently robust desire in pre-service teachers for them to implement NOS into their lessons. keywords: course; data; eed; methods; nature; nos; pre; science; study; teachers cache: iejee-23.pdf plain text: iejee-23.txt item: #95 of 134 id: iejee-230 author: Park Rogers, Meredith title: Implementing a science-based interdisciplinary curriculum in the second grade: A community of practice in action date: 2017-08-24 words: 9448 flesch: 57 summary: Research education of new scientists: Implications for science teacher education. Regarding Silva’s (2000) findings on team teaching, the duality between participation and reification in the negotiation of meaning for a CoP plays an important role in how a curriculum is implemented. keywords: brenda; community; cop; education; elementary; practice; science; students; study; teachers; teaching; team; writing cache: iejee-230.pdf plain text: iejee-230.txt item: #96 of 134 id: iejee-232 author: Zhou, George; Kim, Jinyoung; Kerekes, Judith title: Collaborative teaching of an integrated methods course date: 2017-08-24 words: 7280 flesch: 50 summary: Many scholars therefore suggest that university courses should be employed as the stage where pre-service teachers are exposed to various collaborative practices (Kluth & Straut, 2003; Quinlan, 1998). To respond to this call for collaboration in teacher education courses, three authors collaboratively taught one multidisciplinary methods course (EDE 303) for three semesters at an urban public university in the city of New York. keywords: collaboration; course; curriculum; education; instructors; methods; music; pre; science; subjects; teachers; teaching; university cache: iejee-232.pdf plain text: iejee-232.txt item: #97 of 134 id: iejee-233 author: Baytak, Ahmet; Tarman, Bülent; Ayas, Cemalettin title: Experiencing technology integration in education: children‟s perceptions date: 2017-08-24 words: 5569 flesch: 50 summary: Misuses and misperceptions: Since integration of technology especially with computer technology is new topic in most school communities, there are still some misuses ands misperceptions by teachers and parents who have has hold the main power for the decision on integration. Lauman, D. J. (2000), Student home computer use: A review of the literature. keywords: children; computer; education; home; integration; learning; school; students; study; technology; use cache: iejee-233.pdf plain text: iejee-233.txt item: #98 of 134 id: iejee-236 author: Kunzman, Robert title: Homeschooling and religious fundamentalism date: 2017-08-24 words: 5194 flesch: 46 summary: In fact, as my research suggests, the internal diversity of religious conservative homeschoolers may provide important opportunities for civic conversation across ideological differences (Kunzman, 2009). Fundamentalism exists on a continuum, and conservative religious homeschoolers resist liberal democratic values to varying degrees. keywords: american; children; christian; culture; education; fundamentalism; homeschoolers; homeschooling; kunzman; public; states; university cache: iejee-236.pdf plain text: iejee-236.txt item: #99 of 134 id: iejee-237 author: Kostelecka, Yvona title: Home education in the post-communist countries: Case study of the Czech Republic date: 2017-08-24 words: 7742 flesch: 54 summary: The sources of such information include the analysis of the legislation, several empirical studies about home education that had been conducted so far, the interviews with the promoters of home education and parents of homeschooled children, and the participant observations of the author of the article in the evaluation of home education and the evaluation of the learning outcomes of home educated children. Home education in the post-communist countries: Case study of the Czech Republic Yvona KOSTELECKÁ ∗∗∗∗ Faculty of Education, Charles University in Prague, Czech Republic Abstract keywords: act; children; countries; czech; education; experiment; families; home; home education; parents; post; republic; school; zákon cache: iejee-237.pdf plain text: iejee-237.txt item: #100 of 134 id: iejee-238 author: Morton, Ruth title: Home education: Constructions of choice date: 2017-08-24 words: 5520 flesch: 55 summary: There is also no legal requirement for home educating families to register with their Local Authority meaning that the number of home educated children at any one time can only be estimated, with widely varying results (M. Fortune-Wood, 2006; Hopwood, O'Neill, Castro & Hodgson, 2007), although there are some indications that home education is a growing phenomenon in England and Wales. Home education: Constructions of choice Ruth MORTON ∗∗∗∗ University of Warwick, United Kingdom Abstract Families who choose to home educate generally do so due to dissatisfaction with school- based education. keywords: children; choice; education; educators; families; home; individual; parents; school cache: iejee-238.pdf plain text: iejee-238.txt item: #101 of 134 id: iejee-24 author: Bebetsos, Evangelos; Derri, Vassiliki; Zafeiriadis, Stratos; Kyrgiridis, Pavlos title: Relationship among students’ attitudes, intentions and behaviors towards the inclusion of peers with disabilities, in mainstream physical education classes date: 2017-08-01 words: 7068 flesch: 43 summary: Such factors could concern teacher attitudes and past experience, student education, appropriate school facilities, opinion of other important others, information etc.). Therefore, this study was conducted in an attempt to investigate (a) whether there are any relations between the variables of PBT (attitudes, intention, perceived behavioral control, moral satisfaction, information, and general attitudes), and CAIPE-R (general behavior, and modified behavior), and (b) the extent to which the former variables account for the latter. keywords: attitudes; attitudes attitudes; behavior; children; disabilities; education; inclusion; intention; physical; students cache: iejee-24.pdf plain text: iejee-24.txt item: #102 of 134 id: iejee-242 author: Özerk, Kamil title: Editorial date: 2017-08-24 words: 282 flesch: 41 summary: I express my gratitude to Dr. Beck and Dr. Spiegler and all the other contributors to this special issue of IEJEE. ISSN:1307-9298 Copyright © IEJEE www.iejee.com v Dear IEJEE reader, With this special issue of International Electronic Journal of Elementary Education (IEJEE) you will get the opportunity to be informed about the state-of-the-art in the field of Out of school education. keywords: education cache: iejee-242.pdf plain text: iejee-242.txt item: #103 of 134 id: iejee-246 author: Coşkun, Eyyup; Alkan, Murat title: Evaluation of learning and teaching process in Turkish courses date: 2017-08-24 words: 8423 flesch: 60 summary: In addition, since the relationship of applied stages with text cannot be established adequately, Turkish course which is supposed to be a text-centred course (Coşkun, 2005) may come to be a heap of independent activities. Text prediction practices should be limited to listening practices not present in student course books. keywords: activities; courses; curriculum; learning; observation; preparation; process; stage; students; teachers; teaching; teaching process; text; turkish cache: iejee-246.pdf plain text: iejee-246.txt item: #104 of 134 id: iejee-247 author: Özerk, Kamil title: Editorial date: 2017-08-24 words: 437 flesch: 35 summary: Their experimental research has shown that children taught in English through multiple intelligences supported project-based teaching outperformed the students who were taught in a traditional foreign language-teaching environment with regard to the development of English language skills, attitudes towards teaching and motivation to English teaching. They present an informative paper about several aspects of home education. keywords: education; teaching cache: iejee-247.pdf plain text: iejee-247.txt item: #105 of 134 id: iejee-25 author: Karatas, Ilhan; Baki, Adnan title: The effect of learning environments based on problem solving on students’ achievements of problem solving date: 2017-08-01 words: 8602 flesch: 54 summary: While experimental group students received problem solving based learning environment performed, control group students have continued their present program in this quise-experimental study. Furthermore, at the end of the study experimental group students average score taken from the problems in the third application is x = 2.461 and control group students’ average score is x = 1.910.It is obvious that experimental group students who were taught in problem solving based learning environment has improved in problem application phase. keywords: application; control; experimental; group; group students; learning; mathematics; phase; problem; solving; students cache: iejee-25.pdf plain text: iejee-25.txt item: #106 of 134 id: iejee-3 author: Boylan, Colin title: Exploring elementary students’ understanding of energy and climate change date: 2017-07-24 words: 5168 flesch: 56 summary: A survey was developed to explore what elementary students know and understand about renewable and non-renewable sources of energy and their relationship to climate change issues. Key words: Elementary students, energy, climate change Introduction One of the current challenges facing people around the world focuses on energy. keywords: change; climate; elementary; energy; environmental; question; students cache: iejee-3.pdf plain text: iejee-3.txt item: #107 of 134 id: iejee-33 author: Magnusson, Ulrika title: Paradigms in Swedish as a second language – Curricula for primary school and secondary school in swedish as a second language date: 2017-08-04 words: 12166 flesch: 53 summary: Are there second language paradigms that have guided the formulations of the text, pedagogic principles that are known to be favorable for second language learners, or insights about language traits that are critical in second language development? Also the formulations that students must write different kinds of texts is an expression of a Communicative or Skills paradigm, which is formulated against the background of the lower results of Swedish students in international tests. keywords: content; curricula; education; knowledge; language; literature; mother; paradigms; school; skills; students; subject; swedish; sws; text; tongue cache: iejee-33.pdf plain text: iejee-33.txt item: #108 of 134 id: iejee-35 author: Reath Warren, Anne title: Mother tongue tuition in Sweden - Curriculum analysis and classroom experience date: 2017-08-04 words: 11498 flesch: 57 summary: Other results from these evaluations and responses from semi- structured interviews with MTT teachers conducted in a larger on-going research project have been coded, analysed thematically, and categories, including challenges faced by MTT teacher, established. He is also the leader of a teaching team at First School, which includes French, Spanish and other MTT teachers. keywords: aims; curriculum; education; knowledge; kurdish; language; learning; mother; mtt; school; students; subject; sweden; swedish; syllabus; teachers; tongue cache: iejee-35.pdf plain text: iejee-35.txt item: #109 of 134 id: iejee-48 author: Lee, Ji-Eun; Zeppelin, Mary title: Using drawings to bridge the transition from student to future teacher of mathematics date: 2017-08-04 words: 5513 flesch: 49 summary: Overall, prospective teachers showed predominantly negative or mixed feelings about their past experiences as mathematics students. We asked prospective teachers to draw their past mathematics learning experiences taught by their mathematics or homeroom teachers along with a descriptive paragraph at the beginning of a semester-long elementary mathematics methods course. keywords: drawings; experiences; figure; learning; mathematics; participants; set; students; teachers; teaching; themes cache: iejee-48.pdf plain text: iejee-48.txt item: #110 of 134 id: iejee-50 author: Uygun, Mehmet; Kunt, Halil title: An analysis of the relationship between prospective teachers’ thinking styles and their attitudes to teaching profession according to various variables date: 2017-08-04 words: 5620 flesch: 54 summary: Thinking styles are approaches and leanings that are the results of mental processes related to various problems, events, phenomena and variables (Sünbül, 2004).Thinking styles are related to social environment and they change according to time and culture (Zabukovec and Kobal-Grum, 2004). This theory claims that thinking styles direct people’s daily activities like governing a society. keywords: attitude; education; elementary; profession; science; social; styles; teachers; teaching; thinking; thinking styles cache: iejee-50.pdf plain text: iejee-50.txt item: #111 of 134 id: iejee-51 author: Özerk, Kamil title: Editorial date: 2017-08-04 words: 361 flesch: 28 summary: I also would like to express my deep gratitude to Dr. Turan TEMUR, Dumlupinar University, Turkey; Dr. Gökhan ÖZSOY, Aksaray University, Turkey; and Hasan TABAK, Gazi University, Turkey; H. Gül KURUYER, Aksaray University, Turkey; Mustafa BAKIR, Dumlupinar University, Turkey for their tirelessly works for coordination and quality assurance of submission, correspondence with authors, reviewing, revision, and publishing processes. Microsoft Word - !IEJEE_6_2_Editorial International Electronic Journal of Elementary Education, 2014, 6(2) ISSN:1307-9298 keywords: education; iejee cache: iejee-51.pdf plain text: iejee-51.txt item: #112 of 134 id: iejee-54 author: Weih, Timothy G title: Student-described engagement with text: Insights are discovered from fourth graders date: 2017-08-08 words: 10514 flesch: 59 summary: Outcome 2: Students Respond to their Reading through Self-creative Endeavors Patterns in the data demonstrated that students responded to their reading through creative expressions that sprang from the text. Introduction The Misuse of Children’s Literature Nurturing meaningful engagement between students and what they are reading by evoking students’ personal and emotional connections to the text is a phenomenon that research has shown to enhance meaning making (Cochran-Smith, 1984; Barone, 2011; Pantaleo, 2004; Short, 1992; Sipe, 1998). keywords: book; children; classroom; data; education; instruction; journal; literacy; literature; new; outcome; reading; research; students; study; teachers; text cache: iejee-54.pdf plain text: iejee-54.txt item: #113 of 134 id: iejee-58 author: Liu, Jane; Alduraby, Hanan title: Using the branching story approach to motivate students’ ınterest in reading date: 2017-08-09 words: 7143 flesch: 63 summary: Reading stories is generally a quicker experience than non-fiction reading (Nathanson, 2006). With the days progressing, more students looked more interested and engaged in the activity. keywords: branching; education; questions; readers; reading; saudi; slide; story; students; time; words cache: iejee-58.pdf plain text: iejee-58.txt item: #114 of 134 id: iejee-60 author: Rasinski, Timothy title: Fluency matters date: 2017-08-09 words: 5945 flesch: 54 summary: After defining reading fluency, the article explores proven methods for improving reading fluency, and finally explores questions regarding fluency that when answered may lead to a greater emphasis on and understanding of reading fluency as a necessary part of teaching reading. Fortunately I had been working on my masters’ degree at the time and one professor had us reading some professional articles that were beginning to appear on this concept called reading fluency. keywords: driving; fluency; rasinski; readers; reading; students; text; word cache: iejee-60.pdf plain text: iejee-60.txt item: #115 of 134 id: iejee-61 author: Allington, Richard L. title: How reading volume affects both reading fluency and reading achievement date: 2017-08-09 words: 6910 flesch: 55 summary: Instance theory underlies the “self-teaching hypothesis” proposed by Share (1995; 2004) who has demonstrated that while reading children are actually also acquiring orthographic knowledge of both whole words and word segments. In other words, what has now been repeatedly demonstrated is that working to foster automatic word identification through lessons that feature primarily word level work is simply less effective at developing reading fluency than lessons that engage readers in repeated reading activities. keywords: achievement; books; children; fluency; journal; readers; reading; research; students; volume; word cache: iejee-61.pdf plain text: iejee-61.txt item: #116 of 134 id: iejee-63 author: Young, Chase; Nageldinger, James title: Considering the context and texts for fluency: Performance, readers theater, and poetry date: 2017-08-09 words: 5051 flesch: 60 summary: Reading researchers typically define reading fluency as smooth, effortless reading (Kuhn & Stahl, 2003) . Students entertain audiences with their expressive oral reading (prosody), while the prior rehearsal gives a purpose for repeated readings, a well-research method for increasing reading fluency (Mercer, Campbell, Miller, Mercer, & Lane, 2000; Vadasy & Sanders, 2008; Vaughn, Chard, Bryant, Coleman, & Kouzekanani, 2000. keywords: fluency; performance; poetry; rasinski; readers; reading; research; students; teacher; text; young cache: iejee-63.pdf plain text: iejee-63.txt item: #117 of 134 id: iejee-69 author: Karatoprak, Rabia; Karagöz Akar, Gülseren; Börkan, Bengü title: Prospective elementary and secondary school mathematics teachers’ statistical reasoning date: 2017-08-21 words: 8987 flesch: 51 summary: Then, statistical reasoning scores were compared across two groups. Keywords: Statistical reasoning, Prospective teachers, Statistics education, SRA. keywords: data; education; elementary; garfield; groups; mathematics; pemts; reasoning; results; sample; scale; statistics; teachers; test cache: iejee-69.pdf plain text: iejee-69.txt item: #118 of 134 id: iejee-7 author: Varela, Paulo title: The reflective experimental construction of meanings about the shape of the Earth and the alternation of day and night date: 2017-07-25 words: 11926 flesch: 59 summary: Take, as an example, the communication to the class of the meanings implied in the drawings of the Earth; • the discursive activity generated around the ideas that spring up in the classroom through the conjoint influence of their peers and the teacher's action improves the quality of those ideas, allows for the participation of other students and favors the development of more elaborate meanings; • the students' more evolved meanings and the teacher's action direct and support the conjoint cognitive activity, allowing the slower students to elaborate new reconstructions and approximations to those meanings, which, after being verbalized in the social context of the class, are then shared by a growing number of students; • the students' sociocognitive activity generated around experimental evidence introduces a considerable increase in the development of scientific meanings – the shape of the Earth; what is day and what is night; the alternation of day and night as a consequence of the Earth's rotation movement; • the teacher's action, through continuous and recurrent reflective questioning (scaffolding), not only helps students to become aware and regulate their cognitive activity, but it also promotes their ability to escalate to progressively higher levels of cognition and learning; • the introduction of significant and familiar analogies related to their day-to-day contexts facilitates the comprehension of particularly difficult situations, as was the case of the apparent motion of the Sun; • the contrast between the learning acquired and their less evolved initial ideas triggers in the students a heightened awareness of their own learning – metacognitive knowledge; Self-regulation empowerment program: a school- based program to enhance self-regulated and self-motivated cycles of student learning. keywords: alternation; children; class; construction; day; earth; education; ideas; learning; meanings; night; research; science; shape; students; sun; teaching; varela; years cache: iejee-7.pdf plain text: iejee-7.txt item: #119 of 134 id: iejee-73 author: Wedin, Åsa title: Non-challenging education and teacher control as factors for marginalization of students in diverse settings date: 2017-08-21 words: 11319 flesch: 68 summary: Copyright © IEJEE www.iejee.com Non-challenging education and teacher control as factors for marginalization of students in diverse settings Åsa WEDIN  Dalarna University, Sweden Received: 16 January 2015 / Revised: The article focuses on classroom activities and teachers’ attitudes towards immigrant students and students with low socio-economic status. keywords: anna; backgrounds; classroom; education; grade; immigrant; language; learning; level; maria; reading; school; students; study; swedish; tasks; teachers; work cache: iejee-73.pdf plain text: iejee-73.txt item: #120 of 134 id: iejee-74 author: Epstein, Ann; Willhite, Gary L title: Teacher efficacy in an early childhood professional development school date: 2017-08-21 words: 4033 flesch: 53 summary: The PDS experience provides an opportunity for mentor teachers to share their knowledge with teacher candidates over extended placements, typically more than 100 hours. The study addressed efficacy among mentor teachers during the first year of implementation of an Early Childhood Professional Development School program. keywords: development; efficacy; mentor; pds; professional; school; student; teacher; teaching cache: iejee-74.pdf plain text: iejee-74.txt item: #121 of 134 id: iejee-75 author: Martins, Jorge; Vale, Ana; Mouraz, Ana title: All-day schooling: improving social and educational Portuguese policies date: 2017-08-21 words: 9029 flesch: 48 summary: In the last decade, acknowledging the need to guarantee the guard of all children, as well as to ensure equal opportunities for academic success to the children and adolescents from socio-economic disadvantaged backgrounds, several European countries have implemented policies and programmes which led to the introduction of “all-day schooling”, i.e., to the expansion of school time. The concept of all-day schooling can be defined as the !full-time educational occupation of students over the course of school time and in the physical space of the school” (Pires, 2007, p. 78). keywords: activities; aec; aec programme; case; children; curricular; day; day schooling; education; learning; programme; school; schooling; social; students; teachers; time cache: iejee-75.pdf plain text: iejee-75.txt item: #122 of 134 id: iejee-78 author: Ryan, Thomas G; Ruddy, Sean title: Restorative justice: a changing community response date: 2017-08-21 words: 3768 flesch: 54 summary: “Restorative justice is not a map, but the principles of restorative justice can be seen as a compass pointing a direction. Abstract Our purpose herein is to demonstrate how restorative justice continues to unfold globally and we explain how the use of a restorative justice ideology and intervention leads to a common alternative, not only in criminal justice institutions, but also within social agencies, such as elementary schools, and the related social support systems. keywords: community; education; justice; new; relationships; restorative; school cache: iejee-78.pdf plain text: iejee-78.txt item: #123 of 134 id: iejee-8 author: Shtulman, Andrew; Checa, Isabel title: Parent-child conversations about evolution in the context of an interactive museum display date: 2017-07-25 words: 9552 flesch: 51 summary: In terms of age, we predicted that dyads with older children would outperform dyads with younger children, owing to the finding that older children are generally more familiar with evolutionary ideas than younger children (Berti et al., 2010; Legare, Lane, & Evans, in press; Spiegel et al., 2012) and might thus comprehend the purpose of the activities more thoroughly. Dyads with older children produced more accurate responses than dyads with younger children, and dyads with high parental engagement scores produced more accurate responses than dyads with low parental engagement scores. keywords: activity; child; children; cladogram; display; dyads; engagement; evolution; museum; parent; participants; science cache: iejee-8.pdf plain text: iejee-8.txt item: #124 of 134 id: iejee-80 author: Özerk, Kamil title: Editorial date: 2017-08-21 words: 395 flesch: 54 summary: Students’ Performance Calibration in a Basketball Dibbling Task in Elementary Physical Education International Electronic Journal of Elementary Education, 2015, 7(2) v Dear IEJEE readers, International Electronic Journal of Elementary Education (IEJEE) offers you a new issue with eleven articles. It is IEJEE’s first time that it comes out with a so expanded issue, a new face and advanced technological solutions, but also with a new policy. keywords: education; iejee cache: iejee-80.pdf plain text: iejee-80.txt item: #125 of 134 id: iejee-81 author: Mokhtari, Kouider; Neel, Joanna L; Kaiser, Forrest; Le, Hong Hai title: Assessing the promise of a supplemental reading intervention for at-risk first grade students in a public school setting date: 2017-08-21 words: 9835 flesch: 55 summary: We also randomly selected a group of typically developing readers from the rest of first grade students who did not need assistance in reading. Comparison of Reading Growth Rate of At-Risk Tutored, At-Risk No-Tutored, and Typically Developing Non-Tutored First Grade Peers Measures Fall Winter Spring M (SD) M (SD) M (SD) Gates-MacGinitie Reading Test (NCE)* At-Risk Tutored Peers 21.75 (14.0) 37.9 (14.36) 40.3 (18.7) At-Risk Non-Tutored Peers 30.1 (15.7) 30.8 (19.8) 28.6 (19.3) Typically Developing Peers 60.0 (26.6) 78.4 (22.19) 77.67 (21.2) ____________________________________________________________________________ * NCE= National Curve Equivalent How proficiently did at-risk tutored students read when compared to at-risk non-tutored peers and to typically developing first grade students in the same school? keywords: education; elementary; grade; group; instruction; intervention; literacy; peers; readers; reading; research; risk; school; students; tutoring; tutors cache: iejee-81.pdf plain text: iejee-81.txt item: #126 of 134 id: iejee-83 author: Orbay, Keziban; Develi, Mehmet Hikmet title: Pre-school students’ informal acquisitions regarding the concepts of point and straight line date: 2017-08-21 words: 5809 flesch: 65 summary: Clinical Interview Technique The clinical interview is regarded as the most suitable technique to observe and interpret existing acquisitions of small children and suggest future measures. basic and undefined terms of geometry- in children registered in preschool – the previous step before in-class formal education process. keywords: children; concept; education; k.o; line; paper; point; research; study; z.b.g cache: iejee-83.pdf plain text: iejee-83.txt item: #127 of 134 id: iejee-84 author: Özden, Muhammet title: Prospective elementary school teachers’ views about socioscientific issues: A concurrent parallel design study date: 2017-08-21 words: 11505 flesch: 52 summary: f 4 30 17 37 3 3.05 % 4.4 33.0 18.7 40.7 3.3 7) Integrating SSI would increase the primary students’ interest in science lessons. (M = 3.78) and Integrating SSI would increase the primary students’ interest in science lessons. keywords: education; elementary; issues; journal; participants; research; school; science; science education; socioscientific; ssi; students; teachers; views cache: iejee-84.pdf plain text: iejee-84.txt item: #128 of 134 id: iejee-85 author: Doğan Temur, Özlem; Akbaba Dağ, Serap; Turgut, Sedat title: Some reflections from pre-service elementary teachers’ practice teaching on the area of understanding data in the math-teaching course date: 2017-08-21 words: 9595 flesch: 67 summary: It was observed that pre-service teachers could not reflect given lesson outcomes on the topic of data to the lessons they prepared to teach during their teaching practice. In the implementations, it was noted that pre-service teachers could not effectively include students in both collecting and arrangement as well as interpretation processes of the information and that they taught in teacher-centered manner although they prepared a correct activity. keywords: activities; categories; data; figure; graph; pre; questions; service; students; table; teacher; teaching cache: iejee-85.pdf plain text: iejee-85.txt item: #129 of 134 id: iejee-86 author: Günindi, Yunus title: Preschool children’s perceptions of the value of affection as seen in their drawings date: 2017-08-21 words: 4187 flesch: 60 summary: Children generally drew human figures like family members, other children and friends, animals such as butterflies and dogs, trees, flowers and grass, happy images such as hearts, balloon and balls, abiotic images like clouds and sunshine, and structures like houses. The results showed that the children generally depicted human figures like family members, other children and friends, animals like butterflies and dogs, trees, flowers and grass, happy images such as hearts, balloons and balls, and abiotic images like clouds and sunshine, as well as other images like houses in their drawings. keywords: affection; children; data; drawings; education; means; picture; research; studies; study; value cache: iejee-86.pdf plain text: iejee-86.txt item: #130 of 134 id: iejee-89 author: Adagideli, Fahretdin Hasan; Saraç, Seda; Ader, Engin title: Assessing preschool teachers’ practices to promote self-regulated learning date: 2017-08-21 words: 7184 flesch: 53 summary: The participants were preschool teacher (N=169) from Istanbul. Total number of 17 items (KoP= 7 items; KoT= 4 items; KoS= 6 items) was formulated in order to assess to what extent preschool teachers provide opportunities for children to be aware of their own and their peers’ cognition as well as of their knowledge about task and strategies. keywords: children; education; factor; items; journal; knowledge; learning; motivational; practices; preschool; regulation; scale; self; study; task; teachers cache: iejee-89.pdf plain text: iejee-89.txt item: #131 of 134 id: iejee-9 author: Schneps, Matthew H.; Libarkin, Julie C. title: Elementary children’s retrodictive reasoning about earth science date: 2017-07-25 words: 7543 flesch: 54 summary: For the purposes of this paper, we focus on alternative conceptions related to the topics covered in our study, including geologic time, particularly as it relates to the timing and rate of Earth processes, rock and soil formation, and deep Earth processes related to, for example, plate tectonics and magma formation. Our goal in undertaking this study is to further the understanding that teachers and researchers have about the ways in which children reason about Earth processes. keywords: children; earth; earth science; education; elementary; journal; processes; reasoning; rock; science; students; time cache: iejee-9.pdf plain text: iejee-9.txt item: #132 of 134 id: iejee-90 author: Brusseau, Timothy A; Hannon, James C title: Impacting children’s health and academic performance through comprehensive school physical activity programming date: 2017-08-21 words: 4310 flesch: 53 summary: The Importance of Coordination of the CSPAP The CDC (2013) suggests that in order to maximize physical activity opportunities in schools they need to be coordinated, well planned, and thoughtfully executed and evaluated, thus creating a culture of physical activity that is integrated throughout the school environment and reaches beyond the school and into the community. In addition, classroom teachers and school staff play a vital role in promoting the health of their students by integrating physical activity opportunities throughout the school day (Pangrazi, Beighle, & Pangrazi, 2009) and serving as positive role models while supporting student participation in physical activity (NASPE, 2008). keywords: activity; brusseau; cdc; children; education; health; journal; school; students cache: iejee-90.pdf plain text: iejee-90.txt item: #133 of 134 id: iejee-97 author: Özyürek, Cengiz; Aydın, Güliz title: Students’ opinions on the light pollution application date: 2017-08-22 words: 5408 flesch: 56 summary: Abstract The purpose of this study is to determine the impact of computer-animated concept cartoons and outdoor science activities on creating awareness among seventh graders about light pollution. The data in the study were collected via open-ended questions on light pollution and semi-structured interview questions. keywords: activities; cartoons; concept; education; light; pollution; science; students cache: iejee-97.pdf plain text: iejee-97.txt item: #134 of 134 id: iejee-98 author: Çakır, İsmail title: Instructional materials commonly employed by foreign language teachers at elementary schools date: 2017-08-22 words: 7135 flesch: 54 summary: In the current century, Instructional materials commonly employed / Çakır 79 due to the rapid advancement of technology several technological devices have appeared to be utilized for the benefit of language teachers. Language teaching materials and the (very) big picture. keywords: audio; course; english; language; learners; materials; study; teachers; teaching; use cache: iejee-98.pdf plain text: iejee-98.txt