This case study explored how the involvement of two ESL instructors in critical literacy research, including master’s thesis, made them experience different challenges, ideological conflicts and successes. One of them was teaching ESL in secondary classes when she carried out her thesis about critical literacy. She also cooperated with the researcher in a critical literacy study after she had f...

BACKGROUND An intervention was designed that combined physical activity with learning activities. It was based upon evidence for positive effects of moderate to vigorous physical activity (MVPA) on academic achievement. The aim of this study was to describe the program implementation and effects on academic achievement after 1 year. METHODS Second- and third-grade classes of 6 elementary scho...

Background. This study aimed to obtain an overview of learning outcomes using a virtual YouTube-based application as a medium for fundamental movement skills learning at the Elementary School. Methods. The method used in this study was classroom action research. The learning system created and implemented is a YouTube-based virtual learning system. The design used is a cycle model that include...

Sixty second grade elementary school students in a city southwest China were used as subjects to investigate the effects of situational teaching method on mathematics achievement and interest learning. The results quasi-experiment revealed that approach can significantly improve students' learning compared with traditional methods. In follow-up study, we should pay attention design give full pl...

PURPOSE Low socioeconomic status is an important risk factor for child psychiatric problems. Low socioeconomic status is also associated with psychiatric problems later in life. We investigated the effects of group bullying on clinical characteristics and psychopathology in elementary school students using child-welfare facilities. METHODS Three hundred and fifty-eight elementary school stude...

The present study is a four-year longitudinal study examining the important predictors of writing of 340 Chinese children in elementary grades. Children's transcription skills (handwriting skills and spelling), and syntactic skills in grade 1 were significant predictors of text writing in grade 1-4 while ideation in grade 1 only contributed to text writing in grade 2. Stroke order knowledge was...

The purpose of this study was to examine the relationship between teacher perceptions of elementary school principal leadership style and teacher job satisfaction. The study also investigated differences in teachers’ perceptions of elementary school principal leadership style and teacher job satisfaction based on teachers’ demographics (i.e., age, grade level taught, education level, teaching e...