This article develops out of a broader study of 250 texts which were produced by 11 -13 grade students from both the US and France and were collected over a five-year period. The students were asked to create argumentative texts in which they explored questions about social issues after having read various (full or excerpted pieces of) published texts on these issues. The texts produced by the ...

Introduction A robust understanding of statistics has become crucial in our data centric societies. In the school setting teaching is situated within mathematics curriculum U.S. However, many teachers often have little to no past experiences with before it. Given such circumstances, textbooks likely play a strong role influencing enact for students. this study, I investigate how discourse two c...

introduction: this  research was done to comparison  directionality of drawing fixed shapes in preschoolers and primary school according to role of  handedness.   materials and methods:  in this research causality – comparison, 160 children (80 girls and 80 boys) with mean age of 7/96 in preschool and primary school selected with randomly cluster sampling. the tests were used , handedness quest...

This paper considers primary school texts as resources for teaching reading and children's literature, applying principles of close New Historicism theory to explore the effects on changing social, political, pedagogical contexts in twentieth century. Particular issues discussed are predominant themes ideologies, narrative technique, representations systems authority control, positioning child ...

Background Head lice infestation (pediculosis) is a serious health problem that can cause a high level of anxiety and psychological frustration, especially in developing countries.Socio-demographic factors are important determinants of the occurrence of head lice infestation. This study aimed to determine the head lice infestations and the factors affecting the rate of infestationin primary sch...

We present a new multi-layered annotation scheme for orthographic errors in freely written German texts produced by primary school children. The scheme is closely linked to the German graphematic system and defines categories for both general structural word properties and errorrelated properties. Furthermore, it features multiple layers of information which can be used to evaluate an error. Th...