WWC Quick Review of the Report "Achievement Effects of Four Elementary School Math Curricula: Findings from First Graders in 39 Schools"

2010 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Elementary School ◽  
First Graders ◽  
Elementary School Math

Memorial Consequences of Environmental Context Change in Children and Adults

2010 ◽  
Vol 57 (6) ◽  
pp. 455-461 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alp Aslan ◽  
Anuscheh Samenieh ◽  
Tobias Staudigl ◽  
Karl-Heinz T. Bäuml
Keyword(s):  
Elementary School ◽  
Young Adults ◽  
Episodic Memory ◽  
Middle Childhood ◽  
First Graders ◽  
Fourth Graders ◽  
Environmental Context ◽  
Context Change ◽  
Context Dependent

Changing environmental context during encoding can influence episodic memory. This study examined the memorial consequences of environmental context change in children. Kindergartners, first and fourth graders, and young adults studied two lists of items, either in the same room (no context change) or in two different rooms (context change), and subsequently were tested on the two lists in the room in which the second list was encoded. As expected, in adults, the context change impaired recall of the first list and improved recall of the second. Whereas fourth graders showed the same pattern of results as adults, in both kindergartners and first graders no memorial effects of the context change arose. The results indicate that the two effects of environmental context change develop contemporaneously over middle childhood and reach maturity at the end of the elementary school days. The findings are discussed in light of both retrieval-based and encoding-based accounts of context-dependent memory.

scholarly journals Current trends in the prevalence of asthma-like symptoms in elementary school children

2021 ◽  
pp. 138-140
Author(s):  
Margarita K. Ermakova ◽  
Larisa P. Matveeva ◽  
Natalya R. Kapustina
Keyword(s):  
Elementary School ◽  
Comparative Study ◽  
Bronchial Asthma ◽  
School Children ◽  
Elementary School Children ◽  
First Graders ◽  
Number Of Children ◽  
Current Trends ◽  
Udmurt Republic ◽  
The Difference

Aim. To study the prevalence of bronchial asthma (BA) symptoms among elementary schoolchildren in the Udmurt Republic in the dynamics over 20 years. Materials and methods. A comparative study of the prevalence of BA was carried out. A questionnaire was administered to 2899 parents of first-graders, using the international standardized ISAAC program. Results. The prevalence of BA symptoms on the ISAAC program among elementary schoolchildren in the Udmurt Republic in 2020 was 7.70.2%, being significantly lower than in the previous studies of 2002 and 2009 (p0.001). Conclusion. There was a further downward trend in the prevalence of AD symptoms in younger schoolchildren. The difference between the current symptoms of the disease and the established diagnosis remained rather significant. Reliable (p10.001) increase in the number of children with dry cough, not related to cold, and children with bronchospasm connected with physical load was revealed.

scholarly journals Examining Physical Activity and Play Behavior Preferences between First Graders and Last Graders in Primary School Children in Tehran

2015 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
pp. 17 ◽  
Author(s):  
Noura Marouf ◽  
Adi Irfan Che-Ani ◽  
Norngainy Mohd Tawil
Keyword(s):  
Physical Activity ◽  
Elementary School ◽  
School Children ◽  
First Graders ◽  
Age Groups ◽  
First Grade ◽  
Free Play ◽  
Play Behavior ◽  
Outdoor Environment ◽  
Primary School Children

<p>School grounds are critical places because they are some of the few play areas available for children to develop and transfer peer culture. Moreover, school playtime, which is often called “recess”, offers children daily opportunities for physical activity in the outdoor environment. During school years, age has always been presented in the studies on children as a fundamental component of their development. Children of different ages are interested in different play styles and have various play priorities. However, few studies have compared play patterns in children within age groups. This study explores play behaviors during recess in elementary school children overall, and secondly examines the differences in the play behavior of children, considering first graders who enter elementary school and the last graders. This study uses quantitative design and naturalistic observational approaches. An ethnogram recorded the observations of the play activities preferences of the children. The results of this study showed that girls spend the majority of their recess talking and socializing with peers generally. Older children, particularly those in grades fifth and sixth, spend more time socializing than other age groups. Children in the first grade spent much time in active free play, such as chasing and running, during recess and tend use their playtime as an opportunity to perform a physical activity; therefore the significance of combining recess and provisions for physical activity to reach health goals becomes clearer. These findings are interesting considerations for further research; such information could help to develop appropriate interventions to improve the recess.</p>

Are self-reported depressive symptoms in first-grade children developmentally transient phenomena? A further look

1993 ◽  
Vol 5 (3) ◽  
pp. 433-457 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nick Ialongo ◽  
Gail Edelsohn ◽  
Lisa Werthamer-Larsson ◽  
Lisa Crockett ◽  
Sheppard Kellam
Keyword(s):  
Elementary School ◽  
Depressive Symptoms ◽  
Prognostic Value ◽  
Adaptive Functioning ◽  
First Graders ◽  
First Grade ◽  
Fifth Grade ◽  
Moderate Increase ◽  
Transient Phenomena ◽  
Self Reports

AbstractIn light of putative developmental constraints, some have argued that prior to the middle to late elementary school years children's reports of depressive symptoms represent nothing more than transient developmental phenomena. In an earlier study of an epidemiologically defined sample of first-grade children, self-reported depressive symptoms proved relatively stable and significantly related to adaptive functioning. In the present study, we follow that cohort of first graders longitudinally and assess the prognostic value of self-reports of depressive symptoms in first grade with respect to depressive symptoms and adaptive functioning in the late elementary school years. We also assess whether or not children's reports of depressive symptoms demonstrate greater stability and are more highly associated with adaptive functioning in the middle to late elementary school years. First-grade depressive symptoms were found to have significant prognostic value in terms of levels of depressive symptoms and adaptive functioning in fifth grade, with the strength of prediction varying by gender in the former. Although there was a moderate increase in short-term stability from first to fifth grade, it remained consistently strong across first, fourth, and fifth grades. The magnitude of the relationship between depressive symptoms and adaptive functioning also remained consistent over time. These findings on stability, caseness, and prognostic power attest to the significance of children's self-reports of depressive symptoms in the early as well as the middle to late elementary school years.

scholarly journals The formation of metalanguage skills among bilingual elementary schoolers as a linguodidactic strategy of teaching three languages

2020 ◽  
pp. 30-40
Author(s):  
Vilena Yakovlevna Unarova
Keyword(s):  
Elementary School ◽  
Elementary School Teachers ◽  
English Language ◽  
First Graders ◽  
Foreign Languages ◽  
Bilingual Students ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Chuvash Republic ◽  
Teachers And Parents

The subject of this research is the method of formation of metalanguage skills among the bilingual elementary schoolers by means of the native (ethnic), Russian and English languages. The object of this research is the process of teaching native (ethnic), Russian and foreign languages in elementary school. Particular attention is given to the examination of prerequisites of formation of metalanguage skills, creation of conceptual grounds and methodology of their formation as a linguodidactic strategy of interconnected teaching of three languages in the conditions of contact bilingualism in the Russian regions. The preliminary survey conducted among the elementary school teachers&nbsp; and teachers of English language demonstrated that they experience certain difficulties in organization of methodical work on implementation of interconnected teaching of languages. For the purpose of development of scientifically substantiated methodology of formation of metalanguage skills and experimental determination of its effectiveness, a comprehensive research was conducted in the Sakha Republic (Yakutia) and Chuvash Republic, which included surveying teachers and parents, recitation of first graders, written tasks for multilingual and bilingual students of elementary school. The scientific novelty consists in identification of peculiarities of the formation of metalanguage skills among bilingual children, as well as main difficulties associated with learning several languages in elementary school. In accordance with ontolinguistic, psycholinguistic and cognitive approaches, the author develops and substantiates a linguodidactic complex on the interconnected formation of metalanguage skills among bilingual students of elementary schools.

TO THE QUESTION OF THE PROCESS OF FORMING THE WRITTEN COMPETENCE OF A JUNIOR SCHOOL STUDENT

2021 ◽  
Vol 23 (9) ◽  
pp. 4-12
Author(s):  
Martynova A.V. ◽  
Salavatova A.M. ◽  
Boyko R.A.
Keyword(s):  
Elementary School ◽  
First Graders ◽  
Writing Process ◽  
School Teacher ◽  
Elementary School Teacher ◽  
Criteria And Indicators ◽  
Primary School Student ◽  
Writing Skill ◽  
Graphic Literacy ◽  
Selection Of

The article presents theoretical generalizations of the process of forming the written competence of a junior schoolchild by means of calligraphic skills. The relevance of the issue raised in the article is associated with identifying the problems of deteriorating handwriting of a primary school student and the task facing an elementary school teacher, increasing the percentage of children who have a calligraphically accurate writing skill. The primary rules for mastering a calligraphic skill are the rules of landing, the position of the notebook, and then the rules related to the writing process, such as the tilt and position of letters on a line. The formation of written competence through the calligraphic skill of a junior schoolchild is the most important task of an elementary school teacher. This article is devoted to the issue of studying the written competence of younger students through the selection of diagnostics to determine the level of formation of calligraphic skills in younger students. When identifying the level of formation of calligraphic skills among first graders, the article describes the criteria and indicators of assessment: graphic literacy; calligraphic clarity and stability; connectivity; writing speed. On the basis of the selected criteria and indicators of the formation of calligraphic skills among first graders, the characteristics of the levels are also presented: high, medium and low. In accordance with the criteria and indicators of the formation of calligraphic skills, diagnostic tasks were selected for the first graders.

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