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Showing 1 to 20 of 44 for “"Year 7"”.
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Year 7 students' understanding of the relationship between area and perimeter
The aim of this study was to determine Year 7 students' understanding of the relationship between area and perimeter. This is an important part of the measurement strand of mathematics. Two methods of collecting data were used: a multiple-choice pencil-and-paper test item; and clinical interviews …
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Primary students’ engagement with the visual arts and their transition into Year 7
… Responding in Visual Arts, evidenced in their Year 7 students who had recently graduated from primary school. Consequently, this research investigated the extent of Year 7 students’ prior Visual Arts experiences upon entry into secondary school. The research engaged a qualitative research …
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The relevance of self-esteem to a group of year 7 mainstream pupils
… of her timetable with responsibility for five Year 7 children who were the subject of statutory Statements of Educational Need. These children experienced both individual / small group withdrawal teaching and in-class support. The research focus was, therefore, on the whole of this year group …
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An examination of philosophy with children as a material discursive practice in a year 7 classroom
… Philosophy with Children enquiries with one Year 7 class over an academic year, examining the Community of Enquiry as both a material and a discursive space, influenced by an agential realist theoretical perspective. Observation, the Community of Enquiry, and focused enquiries were employed …
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Effects of physical appearance on Year 7 students' perceptions of the intellectual and social competence of their peers
… (c) the sex of the respondent. A sample of 200 Year 7 students was divided into four groups containing 25 girls and 25 boys. The students were given background information, and shown a slide of a target female student, in which she was as follows: (a) attractive; (b) unattractive; (c) attractive …
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Year 7 students' English reading comprehension and attitudes and behaviours: Collaborative genre-based versus traditional teaching methods in Thailand
A new system-wide educational change has been introduced in Thailand that requires English as a foreign language (EFL) to be taught from primary to university level. This study investigates a genre-based method of teaching English to grade 7 secondary students in Thailand. The study was conducted …
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An examination of the relationships between teaching and learning styles, and the number sense and problem solving ability of Year 7 students
Independent studies of teaching for number sense and problem solving have revealed that teaching for either of them separately poses a great challenge for the teacher. Yet research focusing on the relationship between number sense and problem solving was virtually non-existent, although the …
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Character cars : How computer technology enhances learning in terms of arts ideas and arts skills and proceses in a year 7 male visual arts education program
… (TRAD-MEDIA) enhance the expressive outcomes of Year Seven boys' artwork. The comparative case study method has been chosen as the most suitable method to enable the Researcher to establish the impact that combining TECH-TOOLS with TRAD-MEDIA have upon Year Seven boys' artwork. The Control group …
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The development of a 15 minute direct instruction program for year 7 students for the Victorian music classroom and an evaluation of its effectiveness in advancing students' music literacy
… music literacy (aural and theory components) of Year 7 students in the Victorian music classroom. In doing so, the researcher hoped to offer music educators an effective tool to help maximize the diminishing amount of curriculum time music receives as just one of the Arts. (The Arts are comprised …
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The relationship between estimation skill and computational ability of students in years 5, 7 and 9 for whole and rational numbers
… associated high school in the Perth area. The year levels chosen were 5, 7 and 9. There were two classes from each chosen primary school representing Year 5 and Year 7 and three classes of Year 9 from the high school. The total number of students involved was 91, 77 and 73 from the three …
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“Why Has She Stopped Reading?” The Case for Supporting Reading for Pleasure in Secondary Schools.
… followed eight students from their last term of Year 6 primary education (10 to 11 year-olds) through to the end of their first term of Year 8 secondary education (12 to 13 year-olds). In this ethnographic interpretivist study I used a variety of methods including: observation, questionnaires and …
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Comparison of Groundwater Seepage Modeling in Approximate Original Contour and Geomorphic Valley Fill Design
… flow characteristics of the fill rock for a 10 year time period. A resultant slope stability analysis was also performed. These analyses were performed for both the AOC and geomorphic fill designs.;Differences in seepage and slope stability for the AOC and geomorphic fill were presented and …
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Promoting mental model-building in astronomy education
… then a formal classroom trial intervention with Year 7-8 pupils in the same intermediate school in New Zealand. Both classes were similar and both were taught by teachers in their second year of teaching. An orrery was used as the model of the mental model of the Sun-Earth-Moon system in both the …
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Co- and self-regulation in a computer supported collaborative learning environment among Key Stage Three students
… first study engaged two hundred and fourteen year 7 and 8 (11-13 year oIds) students to pilot the developed co-regulated strategies for learning questionnaire (CRSLQ) in a high school at Bedfordshire County in the United Kingdom. The remaining three studies engaged forty year 7 students (11-12 …
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Constructing Stage-Environment Fit: Early Adolescents' Psychological Development and their Attitudes Towards School in English Middle and Secondary School Environments
… and puberty over the course of a school year. It compared two groups of UK 11 and 12 year olds (Year 7), one in a middle school (age range 8–13 years) without transfer at age 11, and the other in a secondary school (11–16 years) where transfer from primary school had just occurred. Pupil …
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Young people and positive activities: the need for a local perspective
… was used, involving individual interviews with 6 year 7 pupils and 3 service providers linked to a sports college. A further focus group interview helped clarify interpretation. Thematic analysis was used to identify themes and patterns in the data. Generalisations about the pattern of engagement …
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The development of real-world and counterfactual-world inference generation abilities during adolescence
… abilities typically compares a child group (9years or less) with an adult group (18years or over). To assess literal, coherence inference and elaborative inference processing in real-world and counterfactual-world conditions in a wide age-range a new measure was created: the Image Selection …
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A study of pupil participation in learning : factors which promote or undermine inclusion
… and learning experience of one group of year 7/8 pupils. My aim was to increase pupil participation in learning. I considered the pupil experience of inclusion and factors which promoted or undermined participation in learning. The investigation is in two phases. The first stage is a case …
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O uso de calculadora na resolução de problemas no ensino da matemática nos anos finais do ensino fundamental no município de Sertãozinho/PB.
… tool in mathematics education. The final years of elementary school of the State School for elementary and high school Mouzinho João de Freitas in the town of Sertaozinho in the state of Paraiba was the field study. Students in Year 7 were the research subjects. It is a field research, …
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Perspectives on mental health and the role of schools
… study was designed to explore the views of Year 7 pupils at one secondary school to identify how their school does, and could further, support their emotional health and well-being during, and following, transfer from primary school. Volume Two consists of five Professional Practice Reports …
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