The current study examined writing beliefs and practices of 187 grades 4 to 6 teachers who taught writing in schools serving predominantly low SES students in Queensland, Australia. These participants completed a mailed survey that assessed their perceptions of preparation to teach writing to low SES...
For four of the five aspects, around one-fifth or less of the students had a naïve conception; the one exception was for understanding that scientific investigations could be conducted using a variety of methods, with the percentage holding incorrect views almost equal to those holding mixed vi...
The overall purpose of this discussion paper is to identify and describe the contributions of the science of behavior to evidence-based approaches to reading instruction as part of the broader sciences of reading. This is not to simply claim credit for such contributions. Rather, we believe that ...
Grades of spodumene concentrate can vary significantly, but among Australian producers largely sit between 5-6%. This means, typically speaking, it takes around 7-8 tonnes of spodumene to produce 1 tonne of battery-grade lithium products. The scale of the waste produced by this process means tha...
Final grades and informing data were provided to the Global Matrix team for independent confirmation. In addition to the Global Matrix 4.0 grading system, the Australian team also applied the star rating system introduced in their 2016 Report Card.9 The star rating system is used to indicate the...
Study retention rate was described as the percentage of participants completing the surveys and was calculated separately for each Delphi round. Participant characteristics were reported descriptively. For Likert scale items, all responses were used to calculate the mean, standard deviation (SD), ...
12 released "grades" for such anti-smoking efforts among cities within the county as Smokefree Outdoor Air, Smokefree Housing, and Reducing Sales of Tobacco. The study graded cities on an overall scale of one to 12 points: SLO and Arroyo Grande earned the highest scores—six and five, ...
Once we’d taken ownership of the notes, we took them out of the tin and sorted them by signatories and grades.Table 1shows a breakdown of the notes in the hoard, using Renniks3reference numbers: Table 1 – Hoard Composition by Signatories ...
Fatness (% body fat, BMI z-score, waist-to-height ratio) and fitness (20-m shuttle run and standing broad jump) were measured at the start and end of two consecutive years. Rates of change were calculated for the two in-school periods (Grades 4 and 5) and for the summer holiday ...
These include the use of self-report measures of physical activity11, 12, 13, 14 and self-report grades.12,14 Additionally, no previous study has explored academic achievement in relation to both self-report and objective movement data. For schools and teachers, understanding which movement ...