Evaluation of Art Curriculum in Elementary Schools through Educational Connoisseurship and Criticism A. Noori, Ph.D. S. Faarsi This study was conducted to evaluate the art curriculum in elementary schools through educational connoisseurship and criticism. Two elementary schools in Malaayer were selected, one with male and the other with female students, and their physical atmo...

A study of 120 randomly selected classrooms in 30 schools in central and south Texas, USA was conducted to begin assembling baseline information on the condition of indoor air in Texas elementary schools. Part I of the study consisted of questionnaires sent to all teachers and staff in the schools to obtain information about the use of their rooms, room contents and their perceptions of its ind...

School Administrators’ Approach to Cooperation and Its Impact on Development of Cooperative Programs M.H. Hasani Shalmaani, Ph.D. Teachers as the main element in the educational system require more attention. However, the added attention needs not to be in the form of additional pay or welfare programs. What needs to be done is delegating power and allowing them to decide on...

Although prior research has documented differences in the distribution of teacher characteristics across schools serving different student populations, few studies have examined the extent to which teacher sorting occurs within schools. This study uses data from one large urban school district and compares the class assignments of teachers who teach in the same grade and in the same school in a...

ion. When asked, what is a fraction?, we say it is just something concrete, like a slice of pizza. And when this doesn’t work, we continue to skirt the question by offering more metaphors and more analogies: What about a fraction as “part of a whole”? As another way to write division problems? As an “expression” of the form m/n for whole numbers m and n (n > 0)? As another way to write ratios? ...

In this article we describe the mathematics curriculum and teaching practices in a purposive sample of high‐poverty elementary schools working with 3 of the most widely disseminated comprehensive school reform programs in the United States. Data from 19,999 instructional logs completed by 509 first‐, third‐, and fourth‐grade teachers in 53 schools showed that the mathematics taught in these sch...

INTRODUCTION In this cross-sectional study, the level of knowledge and attitude of elementary school teachers regarding traumatic dental injuries (TDI) were assessed. MATERIALS AND METHODS A questionnaire was distributed to 330 elementary school teachers in 30 randomly selected schools in the Emirates of Sharjah and Dubai. The questionnaire collected information on participants' demographic c...

The main purpose of this study was to investigate the relation between flow experience of elementary school teachers and their job performance. The study empirically tests predictions of relationship by using mail survey data from 150 elementary schools of teachers. The results of the hierarchical regression analysis showed that the flow experience positively impacts the job performance; the pe...

Over the past three decades, educational reforms have played a major role in local, state, and federal policy debates. Several factors drive the push for reforms: U.S. students have not performed as well on science and math tests as students in other industrial countries. Low-income and minority students lag significantly behind other students on most measures of academic achievement. The priva...