Primary Level Students Research Articles

Developing a Multi-Dimensional Early Elementary Mathematics Screener and Diagnostic Tool: The Primary Mathematics Assessment

There is a critical need to identify primary level students experiencing difficulties in mathematics to provide immediate and targeted instruction that remediates their deficits. However, most early math screening instruments focus only on the concept of number, resulting in inadequate and incomplete information for teachers to design intervention efforts. We propose a mathematics assessment that screens and provides diagnostic information in six domains that are important to building a strong foundation in mathematics. This article describes the conceptual framework and psychometric qualities of a web-based assessment tool, the Primary Math Assessment (PMA). The PMA includes a screener to identify students at risk for poor math outcomes and a diagnostic tool to provide a more in-depth profile of children’s specific strengths and weaknesses in mathematics. The PMA allows teachers and school personnel to make better instructional decisions by providing more targeted analyses.

Computer Games and Their Impact on Creativity of Primary Level Students in Tehran

Creativity is about being sensitive to dilemmas, losses, problems, and existing errors, making propositions about and examining such issues, which finally leads to innovative findings. On the other hand, it seems that games are important in this process; since they can improve creativity of the individuals. Thus, this research pays attention to the question that whether computer games affect creativity of students at primary level in schools or not? Moreover, in this study, students of 3 main districts of Tehran municipality were studied. Based on the available data of the ministry, there were 51740 students studying in these three districts. Thus, 381 students were randomly selected as the research sample. Findings revealed that all computer games, i.e. puzzle, intellectual, and enigma, affect creativity of students at primary level in schools to different extents.

Estimación de la magnitud de la segregación escolar en América Latina

<p>Esta investigación busca estimar la magnitud del efecto de la segregación escolar socioeconómica, étnico-cultural y por procedencia inmigrante/nativo de los países de América Latina. Para ello, se realiza una explotación especial de la base de datos del Tercer estudio regional comparativo y explicativo, TERCE, del Laboratorio Latinoamericano de Evaluación de la Calidad de la Educación, LLECE (2013), de la Oficina Regional de Educación para América Latina y el Caribe de la Organización de las Naciones Unidas para la Educación, la Ciencia y la Cultura, OREALC/UNESCO, para estimar el índice de disimilitud a una muestra de 105.847 estudiantes de educación primaria en 5.733 escuelas de 15 países. Los resultados indican que la segregación escolar es muy alta en el conjunto de países de América Latina. La segregación escolar promedio por nivel socioeconómico es de 0,56, de carácter étnico es de 0,92, y por procedencia inmigrante/nativo de 0,80.</p>

Impact of Oral Health Education on Oral Health Knowledge of Private School Children in Riyadh City, Saudi Arabia.

Aims and Objectives:To assess the early effect of oral health education on oral health knowledge of primary and intermediate school students of private schools by utilizing pre/post questionnaires data from oral health educational projects in Riyadh city, Saudi Arabia. Second, to examine topic-specific knowledge differences between genders, nationalities, and educational levels of the students.Materials and Methods:Cross-sectional oral health educational data of private school students (n = 1279) in primary and intermediate levels were extracted from the King Salman Centre for Children's Health (KSCCH) projects undertaken by Riyadh Colleges of Dentistry and Pharmacy. Student's pre- and post-test data were analyzed for changes in oral health knowledge. Overall knowledge score and topic-specific knowledge scores were calculated and the differences between gender, nationality, and educational level were examined using Mann–Whitney U-test. Pre/post change in the oral health knowledge was evaluated by Wilcoxon's sign rank test.Results:Immediately, after oral health educational session high knowledge score category showed an increase of 25.6%, medium and low knowledge score categories showed −3.2% and −22.3% decrease, and this change was statistically significant (P < 0.001). Comparison of correct responses between pre- and post-test showed statistically significant (P < 0.05) increase in all the questions except for the timing of tooth brushing. Females, non-Saudi nationals and students in primary level of education showed significantly high mean knowledge (P < 0.001) at posttest assessment.Conclusion:Primary and intermediate private school student's overall, and topic-specific oral health knowledge improved immediately after educational intervention provided by KSCCH. High knowledge gain was observed among female non-Saudi primary school students.

Lenses on metacognition: Teachers’ perceptions toward strategies in reading in a Pakistani context

The research in the field of metacognition for developing reading is not new; metacognition has been used for many years to identify ways to develop students' reading comprehension. Most previous research has addressed either primary or secondary level students. However, notably few studies have been conducted at the undergraduate level. This study has attempted to initiate strategies to assist first-year engineering students in developing their reading abilities within a Pakistani context. The primary objective of this research was to identify what strategies first-year engineering students use in developing their reading at Quaid-e-Awam University of engineering science and technology in Pakistan. This study used qualitative instruments that included semi-structured interviews with teachers and classroom observations during read-aloud sessions. The data were organized through NVivo version 8 for obtaining nodes, codes, and main themes for interpreting the results. The results of this study demonstrated that teachers should use metacognitive strategies for developing students' reading abilities. Findings also revealed that reading strategies, such as text scanning, guesses from contextual clues, drawing on prior knowledge, and using a dictionary, are the most important strategies to use for developing the reading skills and comprehension of engineering students. This study has suggested metacognitive strategies be used for promoting students' reading abilities and that teachers should design and develop more courses using these strategies to enhance the reading and listening skills of engineering students. © Lomonosov Moscow State University, 2017.

Perancangan Animasi Interaktif Pengetahuan Dasar Bahaya Narkoba

Interactive learning media is one of the popular methods that are used today.Interactive animations easier for students in the learning process so that it can absorbknowledge better. The design of interactive animations have basic knowledge of thedangers of drugs meant for the primary school level students to more easily understandthe basic knowledge of the dangers of drugs to health, to determine the shape and typeof drug and its effects on human health. The development method used is the waterfallmodel (Rosa Shalahudin 2014: 28). Results from this study is the design of interactiveanimation is easier for users to know and knowing the types of narcotics andpsychotropic substances, and know the dangers inherent in it. Results from testing of theuser is that students can better understand the material provided by the method oflearning interesting and interactive.

İLKÖĞRETİM DİN KÜLTÜRÜ VE AHLAK BİLGİSİ ÖĞRETİM PROGRAMI İLE ORTAOKUL TEMEL DİNİ BİLGİLER DERSİ (İSLAM; I-II) ÖĞRETİM PROGRAMI KAZANIMLARINDAKİ DUYUŞSAL HEDEFLER ÜZERİNE KARŞILAŞTIRMALI BİR ARAŞTIRMA

Religious culture and ethics lesson is one of the compulsory courses in Turkey. Together with this lesson, the primary and secondary level students can choose the Quran, the Prophet Muhammad's life and the Basic Religious Information lessons as a selective course. This study is a comparative research on affective objectives of religious culture and ethics lesson and basic religious information course curriculums. In this study, it has been evaluated and comparatively analyzed the affective objectives of religious culture and ethics and basic religious information course curriculums in terms of quantity and quality. At the end of the research, it has reached that religious culture and ethics lesson and basic religious information course aim to gain students cognitive capabilities, religious culture and ethics lesson aims to gain more affective behaviors than basic religious information course.

Examination of the Effectiveness of Sternberg's Successful Intelligence Program on Executive Functions of Sharp-Witted Primary School Level Students

The current research aimed to investigate the effectiveness of Sternberg's successful intelligence program on executive functions of sharp-witted primary school level students. The statistical universe of the current research consisted of all male sharp-witted students of the city of Isfahan in the educational year of 2015-2016. For this purpose, the number of 30 male sharp-witted students was selected through multi stage cluster random sampling method and was randomly placed in two experimental and control groups (15 people in the experiment group and another 15 in the control group) and their mothers, too responded to the questions of the executive skills scale. The Sternberg's successful intelligence program was administered on the experimental group. The tool used for this research included a questionnaire (inventory) on rating executive functions for the primary school level students (parent form). To analyze the research data, multivariate covariance analysis (MANCOVA) was applied. Findings revealed that training of the Sternberg's successful intelligence program was effective on executive functions (response inhibition, active memory, emotional control, focus attention, assignment initiation, planning, organizing, time leadership, goal-orientedness, resilience and metacognition) of sharp-witted children. The Sternberg's successful intelligence program could be applied as an intervention method for improving executive functions of children.

اتجاهات معلمي الدراسات الاجتماعية نحو توظيف الخيال العلمي في تدريس طلبة التعليم الأساسي

Abstract: This study sought to identify the attitudes of social studies teachers towards the employment of science fiction in basic education Students Teaching. Study sample consisted of (N=284) teacher who teaches social studies subjects for students in primary level in the Jordanian governorate in Irbid during the first semester (2014/2015 AD), sample selected randomly. To achieve the objectives of this study we were made a questionnaire consisting of (N=21) item distributed on three areas; ( planning, implementation, and evaluation). Results showed that the degree of teachers employment in science fiction came largely on the share planning area while came moderately on implementation and evaluation areas, and the existence of differences between the study sample average estimates of the share due to the variable sex in favor of females planning area, and the qualification in favor of variable individuals with higher qualifications estimates. The existence of differences between estimates average of respondents planning area and the implementation area due to expertise variable for the benefit of teachers with expertise estimates (5-10) and experienced (over 11 years). This study recommended with holding training courses for teachers on the use of science fiction in the method of teaching, and to highlight the skills to think and work on development while teaching. Keywords: Science Fiction, Attitudes, Social Studies Teachers, Primary Students.

Educação ambiental: Jacuizinho/RS – conhecer, diagnosticar para preservar!

O presente trabalho teve como objetivo conhecer as características ambientais do Munícipio de Jacuizinho/RS, avaliando as concepções de jovens em idade escolar sobre os pontos positivos e negativos de seu município, instigando os mesmos e seus respectivos professores a partirem em busca de avaliá-lo, analisando as atividades em âmbito local. O procedimento utilizado foi a pesquisa bibliográfica e de campo. Foram aplicados questionários com questões objetivas aos educandos de nível médio e fundamental em duas escolas, uma localizada em âmbito rural e outra em âmbito urbano, e questionário com questões abertas a educadores das respectivas escolas, os quais estão envolvidos com a EA. Buscou-se conhecer a realidade ambiental a qual professores e alunos estão inseridos. Notou-se que os educadores encontram dificuldades na inserção da educação ambiental, relataram a necessidade de qualificação e efetiva participação dos envolvidos. Segundo eles a falta destes elementos acaba dificultando o desenvolvimento e aplicabilidade deste tema. Há a necessidade da participação de todos; a qualificação dos métodos educacionais e dos profissionais envolvidos, desenvolvendo um trabalho em conjunto com enfoque na realidade em que o educando está inserido para que a partir deste conhecimento os mesmos estejam aptos a analisar as consequências das ações sem planejamento e uso irracional dos recursos naturais.

A Study of the Dropouts of Students at Primary Level in Government Schools of Sonepat District

The investigator has tried to study the Dropouts of students at Primary Level in Govt. Schools of Sonepat District. A sample of 100 students of Primary Level was selected by using simple random sampling technique. As a result significant difference was found in mean scores of dropouts of students with respect to their gender (boys and girls. The boys had the reason (possibility) to drop out more as compared to their counterparts. Further, no significant difference was found in the mean scores of dropouts of students with respect to the locality of school (Urban and Rural). Significant difference was found in the mean scores of dropouts of students at with respect to the educational status of parents (Educated parents and Uneducated parents).

A Meta-Analysis of Discourse Analytic Research in English Teaching

A meta-analysis was conducted to analyze the history of discourse analytic studies that appeared in the English Teachingjournal ofKorea over the past 50 years. Atotal of 161 studies were categorized according to discourse modes, primary themes employed and levels of application. The results indicated that in the most recent years, DA articles occupy about 22% ofthe total studies published in thejournal, with an overall increase in DA studies analyzing written texts. Qualitative studies such as ethnographies and case studies employing discourse data as a primary component of data analysis have also steadily increased over the years. The findings suggest that in the future, more DA research on primary or secondary level students, classroom interactions, and critical discourse studies examining the Korean context may benefit a wider range of readership who may be interested in the practical application of DA results to the Korean English education context.

The Effectiveness of Programmed Education in Developing Writing Skills of Children with Learning Difficulties in Primary Education: A Case Study of Northern Border Areas of Saudi Arabia

The present research aimed at recognizing the effect of Programmed Education (PE, hereafter) in developing writing skills for children of learning difficulties in primary education in Saudi Arabia. This empirical study is a case study of primary level students from the learning difficulties centers in KSA. The study sample is chosen randomly consisting of two groups: controlled (50 students), and experimental (50 students), wherein the study instruments have been applied after checking its validity and reliability. The results of the study shows that there is a difference of statistical significance at (α = 0.05) between the controlled and experimental groups related to the effect of programmed education in developing writing skills of children with learning difficulties in primary education in the Northern Border area of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.

School-context videos in Janus-faced online publicity: Learner-Generated Digital Video Production Going Online

This article reports a case study on sChOOLtv, an online television for primary and secondary schools that aims to bridge the media gap between in-school and out-of-school learning environments. Contrary to its creators’ expectations, the number of published videos has not increased since its establishment. Furthermore, the videos were mostly produced by primary-level students, with few videos released by secondary-level students. The article describes online publishing of learner-generated videos by exploring the views of the students, parents, teachers, and principals. Sixty-seven informants were interviewed, and video production activities and discussions in classrooms were observed. The article discusses the factors hindering adolescents from making and publishing videos. It suggests media encouragement practices to enhance publishing-oriented digital video production in schools.

La enseñanza del idioma inglés a temprana edad: su impacto en el aprendizaje de los estudiantes de escuelas públicas

La presente investigación aborda la temática de la enseñanza del idioma inglés a temprana edad, cuyo objetivo es develar el impacto de la enseñanza de este idioma como segunda lengua dentro de los primeros años de escolaridad. Los participantes seleccionados fueron estudiantes de enseñanza primaria pertenecientes a cuatro diferentes establecimientos públicos que presentan altos índices de vulnerabilidad. La metodología empleada es de tipo cualitativa, ya que permite mayor flexibilidad y cercanía con la realidad al momento de analizar a los participantes. El plan de análisis se enmarca en el análisis de contenido, de tipo descriptivo. Este permitió hacer inferencias y aplicarlas al contexto en el cual se desarrolló esta investigación. Se desprende como principal hallazgo que los estudiantes que comienzan la exposición del idioma inglés a temprana edad, de manera formal, logran un mejor aprendizaje, comprensión y motivación con el mismo, comprado con aquellos alumnos que comenzaron su proceso de aprendizaje a una edad tardía.

Child Education Through Animation: An Experimental Study

Teachers have tried to teach their students by introducing text books along with verbal instructions in traditional education system. However, teaching and learning methods could be changed for developing Information and Communication Technology (ICT). It's time to adapt students with interactive learning system so that they can improve their learning, catching, and memorizing capabilities. It is indispensable to create high quality and realistic leaning environment for students. Visual learning can be easier to understand and deal with their learning. We developed visual learning materials (an overview of solar system) in the form of video for students of primary level using different multimedia application tools. The objective of this paper is to examine the impact of student’s abilities to acquire new knowledge or skills through visual learning materials and blended leaning that is integration of visual learning materials with teacher’s instructions. We visited a primary school in Dhaka city for this study and conducted teaching with three different groups of students (i) teacher taught students by traditional system on same materials and marked level of student’s ability to adapt by a set of questions (ii) another group was taught with only visual learning material and assessment was done with 15 questionnaires, (iii) the third group was taught with the video of solar system combined with teacher’s instructions and assessed with the same questionnaires. This integration of visual materials (solar system) with verbal instructions is a blended approach of learning. The interactive blended approach greatly promoted students ability of acquisition of knowledge and skills. Students response and perception were very positive towards the blended technique than the other two methods. This interactive blending leaning system may be an appropriate method especially for school children.

Twisted Eulenspiegel: An Educational Approach To Role Playing In The Narrative Contexts

The theoretical framework of this study combines the concepts of role playing, storytelling and perspective taking in the creation of an interactive virtual environment, in order to assess and train the ability of students in primary and secondary level to take the point of view of the characters of a narrative. In order to develop this sense of “role” in an interactive virtual environment, we relied on the Vladimir Propp's work on morphology of fairy tale. With regard to the identification of literary material, we have focused attention on the cycle of stories of Till Eulenspiegel. The research path provides a virtual reconstruction of the world of Till, through interactive 3D animation that represents the scenario of the tales: a medieval town in which we developed an objective view, a vision of the entire district in Third Person Camera, and a subjective view, in First Person Camera, centered on the point of view of the character. Students will, therefore, deconstruct and reconstruct the original story, basing on the answers which they give to Till Eulenspiegel, becoming in turn deuteragonists or antagonists, villains or donors, helpers or false heroes.. DOI: 10.5901/mjss.2014.v5n20p1118

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Objetivos: Determinar el nivel de parasitosis intestinal infantil según la zona de procedencia en estudiantes del nivel primario del distrito de El Tambo, Huancayo. Métodos: Investigación de alcance descriptivo correlacional. Para la recolección de datos sobre la parasitosis se empleó el examen parasitológico seriado de deposiciones (EPSD) y el test de Graham, con observación de tres muestras diferentes por estudiante, correspondientes a los escolares que cursaron el primer, segundo y tercer grado de educación primaria durante el año 2013 en las instituciones educativas 31509 Ricardo Menéndez Menéndez y 30219 de Paccha, distrito de El Tambo, Huancayo. Resultados: Se observó que presentaron parásitos patógenos el 46,20% de estudiantes procedentes de la zona rural y el 38,6% de zona urbana. Luego del proceso de prueba de hipótesis se observó que no existían diferencias significativas en relación con la parasitosis según la zona de procedencia (chi cuadrado de Pearson = 0,634 GL = 1. Valor P = 0,426). Se empleó la prueba chi cuadrado, al 0,05 de significancia y 95% de confianza estadística. Conclusiones: No existe diferencia significativa entre el nivel de parasitosis de acuerdo con la zona de procedencia.

Role Playing and Perspective Taking

The rationale of this work combines the concepts of role playing and storytelling in the creation of an interactive virtual environment aimed at assessing and training students' perspective taking skill, or the ability of students in primary and secondary level to take the point of view of the characters of a narrative. The ability to take the perspective of others is extremely important from the cognitive point of view. Piaget has suggested that the moment we abandon the egocentric perspective in favor of the ability to take another point of view, takes place not earlier than seven years of age. Subsequent researches challenged the findings of Piaget. For this reason, the project will address children in the last years of primary school (aged 8-10) and the first level of secondary school (aged 11-13). From 8 years old then, in fact, the child, in the opinion of many researchers who have addressed this issue, should be out of the egocentric stage and should have acquired the skill of perspective taking. The goal of current stage is to create a tool that allows the students to take the point of view of the characters in a story and to make choices in the narrative, which are consistent with the role of the character played.

Estudio psicometrico del test de matrices progresivas de Raven a colores en estudiantes de primaria de Lima Metropolitana

Se realizó el estudio psicométrico del Test de Matrices Progresivas de Raven a colores, que es un instrumento no verbal que evalúa la habilidad para hacer comparaciones, razonar por analogía y organizar percepciones espaciales dentro de un todo relacionado sistemáticamente, se diseñó principalmente como una medida de factor "g" de Spearman o inteligencia general, que está constituida por dos componentes identificados como habilidad educativa y habilidad reproductiva. Participaron en el estudio 2496 alumnos de las siete USEs de Lima Metropolitana que se encontraban cursando del 1ro al 6to grado de primaria, con edades entre los 6 y 11 años, seleccionados en base a un muestreo probabilístico bietápico. Los resultados del análisis psicométrico del test demuestran que el instrumento permite obtener puntajes confiables, a través del método de consistencia interna. Asimismo, el análisis de factores permitió obtener la validez de constructo de la prueba, observándose que los ítems conforman un sólo factor que explica el 76% de la varianza de las puntuaciones. Se elaboraron los baremos correspondientes a cada grupo de edad. El análisis de los resultados destaca la comparación con otros estudios, las diferencias entres los alumnos de los colegios estatales y los no estatales, y la diferencia encontrada entre alumnas y alumnos. Se utilizan criterios educacionales y sociales en la discusión y explicación de los resultados.