Commentary: Elementary Students Discuss Literacy

Contributions of Morphology Beyond Phonology to Literacy Outcomes of Upper Elementary and Middle-School Students

Using structural equation modeling the authors evaluated the contribution of morphological awareness, phonological memory, and phonological decoding to reading comprehension, reading vocabulary, spelling, and accuracy and rate of decoding morphologically complex words for 182 4thand 5th-grade students, 218 6thand 7th-grade students, and 207 8thand 9th-grade students in a suburban school distric...

A Learning Assistance Tool for Enhancing ICT Literacy of Elementary School Students

With rapid advances in the development of information technology, information access has become central to life in the 21st century. In recent years, the development of useful learning-assistance systems has become a popular topic in literature. Learners can benefit from guidance provided by a tool that assists learning when a student has trouble using an e-learning platform. An effective learn...

Using empirical data to refine a model for information literacy instruction for elementary school students

Introduction. As part of a larger study in 2006 of the information­seeking behaviour of third­grade students in Montreal, Quebec, Canada, a model of their information­seeking behaviour was developed. To further improve the model, an extensive examination of the literature into information­seeking behaviour and information literacy was conducted resulting in a revised model that comprised two re...

Developing and Validating a Media Literacy Self-evaluation Scale (mlss) for Elementary School Students

The arrival of new media technology has the potential to radically change education. It has become important for both academics and practitioners to understand the behavioural intentions of students towards media technology. Many scales have been developed to measure the attitudes of secondary students towards the usage of media technology. However, few scales have been developed to assess medi...

Elementary Physiology for Students