OBJECTIVE We performed the follow-up tests for three years for junior high school students by the quasi-experimental design to investigate the medium-term effect of smoking prevention education in the elementary school. METHODS The intervention group consisted of 106 school students of three elementary schools and received a smoking prevention program in the elementary school. Moreover, the f...

BACKGROUND Students' health and future health of the community are related to providing health care in schools and since in every society, different contextual factors affect this matter, the present study aims to recognize the factors influencing the health care elementary students are provided with. METHODS This qualitative content analysis was performed in 2014 in Isfahan. This study was c...

BACKGROUND Samples of drinking water were collected directly from the personal water bottles of students at an elementary school in Calgary, Alberta. METHODS Total and fecal coliforms and heterotrophic bacteria were enumerated using membrane filtration and agar plate count methods respectively. RESULTS The Canadian Drinking Water Quality Guidelines (CWQG) criterion was exceeded for total co...

In this paper we will talk about the Web usage practices and Web page design aimed at children of an early elementary school age. Learning about differences in understanding and using the Web should aid in the development of Web content for children. Thus research in opinions, practices and needs of the Internet's youngest users should today be considered a must, also in order to provide a bett...

This exploratory study examined how elementary school students make use of a collaborative hypermedia learning environment in constructing scientific explanations. The target environment was a computer-networked database system in which students externalize their thoughts in the form of texts or graphics, then elaborate their thoughts by structuring with links or by commenting. Thirty students ...

Effects of the life skills programme 'Eigenständig werden' (Becoming independent) on life skills and on identified antecedents of adolescent health risk behaviour, childhood internalizing and externalizing behaviour were tested in an elementary school setting. A quasi-experimental controlled trial with five repeated measures was conducted. Participants were 919 students from 50 elementary schoo...

This study reports the development and evaluation of a web-based interactive writing environment designed for elementary school students. The environment includes three writing themes, “story pass on”, “story chameleon” and “thousand ideas”, to encourage reading comprehension, creativity and problem-solving skills of students. Three assessment mechanisms, expert assessment, self-assessment and ...

Intelligent tutoring systems customize the learning experiences of students. Be­ cause no two students have precisely the same learning history, traditional analytic techniques are not appropriate. This paper shows how to compare the learning his­ tories of students and how to compare groups of students in different experimental conditions. A class of randomization tests is introduced and illus...