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Grotzer, Tina A.; Derbiszewska, Katarzyna; Solis, S. Lynneth – Cognition and Instruction, 2017
Research has focused on students' difficulties understanding phenomena in which agency is distributed across actors whose individual-level behaviors converge to result in collective outcomes. Building on Levy and Wilensky (2008), this study identified features of distributed causality students understand and that may offer affordances for…
Descriptors: Grade 4, Grade 6, Interviews, Pretests Posttests
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Lee, Hollylynne; Bradshaw, Laine; Famularo, Lisa; Masters, Jessica; Azevedo, Roger; Johnson, Sheri; Schellman, Madeline; Elrod, Emily; Sanei, Hamid – Grantee Submission, 2019
The research shared in this conference paper report illustrates how an iterative process to item development that involves expert review and cognitive lab interviews with students can be used to collect evidence of validity for assessment items. Analysis of students' reasoning was also used to expand a model for identifying conceptions and…
Descriptors: Middle School Students, Interviews, Misconceptions, Test Items
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Lehrer, Richard – Statistics Education Research Journal, 2017
Grade 6 (modal age 11) students invented and revised models of the variability generated as each measured the perimeter of a table in their classroom. To construct models, students represented variability as a linear composite of true measure (signal) and multiple sources of random error. Students revised models by developing sampling…
Descriptors: Models, Statistics, Statistical Inference, Mathematics Instruction
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Boyce, Steven – North American Chapter of the International Group for the Psychology of Mathematics Education, 2013
In this proposal, I introduce a method for modeling the dynamics of a sixth-grade student's accommodation of his fractions scheme to include a disembedding operation (Steffe & Olive, 2010). I will describe a three-part approach consisting of a constructivist teaching experiment, retrospective analysis, and stochastic modeling of the student's…
Descriptors: Grade 6, Fractions, Mathematics Instruction, Teaching Methods
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Bilgin, Nevruz; Dalkiran, Oguzhan – Journal of Education and Training Studies, 2017
The aim of the research was to investigate the effects of sports education model and direct teaching model on the attitudes of the students, and the differences among the attitudes of students. The study group of the research included 29 students from 6th and 7th grade of a secondary school in the 2015-2016 academic years. The experimental group…
Descriptors: Direct Instruction, Teaching Methods, Teaching Models, Student Attitudes
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Pugh, Kevin J.; Bergstrom, Cassendra M.; Heddy, Benjamin C.; Krob, Karen E. – Journal of Experimental Education, 2017
The Teaching for Transformative Experiences in Science (TTES) model was designed to facilitate the application of academic learning in students' everyday experiences. In the current study, we describe a 2-year design-based intervention that aimed to further develop and evaluate the TTES model. In the first year, a teacher implemented the TTES…
Descriptors: Science Instruction, Transformative Learning, Instructional Design, Models
Wininger, Steven R.; Adkins, Olivia; Inman, Tracy Ford; Roberts, Julia – Journal of Advanced Academics, 2014
The study's purpose was to develop and validate a scale for assessing interest in mathematics among elementary students as part of an identification protocol for gifted and talented programming. Lohman recommends assessment of interest as a critical element within the ideal approach to identification. Hidi and Renninger's Four-Phase Interest…
Descriptors: Academically Gifted, Elementary School Students, Student Interests, Mathematics
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Cryan, Mark; Martinek, Thomas – Physical Educator, 2017
The Soccer Coaching Club program used the Teaching Personal and Social Responsibility (TPSR) model in an after-school soccer program for sixth grade boys between 11 and 12 years old in a local middle school. Soccer, as the featured physical activity, provided the "hook" for regular attendance. Desired outcomes included improved…
Descriptors: Middle School Students, Males, Grade 6, Team Sports
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Calderon-Canales, Elena; Flores-Camacho, Fernando; Gallegos-Cazares, Leticia – Astronomy Education Review, 2013
This research project aimed to identify and analyze Mexican primary school students' ideas about the components of the solar system. In particular, this study focused on conceptions of the solar system and representations of the dynamics of the solar system based on the functional and structural models that students make in school. Using a…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Elementary School Students, Elementary School Science, Astronomy
Lee, Kester; Anderson, Judy – Mathematics Education Research Group of Australasia, 2014
Declining participation rates in advanced mathematics courses and STEM-related occupations has been an issue in Australia for some time, particularly for females. As students continue to disengage with mathematics and complain about its usefulness, it is important to explore what we can do to stem the tide of departing students. One area worthy of…
Descriptors: Student Interests, Mathematics, Mathematics Instruction, Role Models
Sarshar, Shanon Etty – ProQuest LLC, 2013
Using the Gap Analysis problem-solving framework (Clark & Estes, 2008), this study examined the performance gap experienced by 6th grade students on the math sections of the ISEE (Independent School Entrance Exam). The purpose of the study was to identify and validate the knowledge, motivation, and organization causes of the students' low…
Descriptors: Grade 6, Mathematics Achievement, Mathematics Tests, Motivation
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Nicolaou, Chr. Th.; Evagorou, M.; Lymbouridou, Chr. – Science Education International, 2015
Despite the belief that emotions are important in the learning process, research in the area of emotions and learning, especially in science, is scant. Modelling and SSI argumentation have shared with respect to the emphasis in recent science standards reports as core scientific practices that need to be part of science teaching and learning. Even…
Descriptors: Elementary School Students, Science Instruction, Elementary School Science, Interviews
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Shah, Mamta; Foster, Aroutis – Educational Technology & Society, 2014
Systematic incorporation of digital games in schools is largely unexplored. This case study explored the ecological conditions necessary for implementing a game-based learning course by examining the interaction between three domains (the innovator, the innovation, and the context). From January-April 2012, one in-service teacher learned and…
Descriptors: Computer Games, Educational Games, Middle School Students, Case Studies
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Morag, Orly; Tal, Tali – International Journal of Science Education, 2012
The development and application of a framework that captures main characteristics of learning in nature--the Field Trip in Natural Environments (FiNE) framework--is the main outcome of this study that followed up 22 daily field trips of 4-6th grade students to nature parks. The theoretical and practical framework, which was developed based on the…
Descriptors: Literature, Field Trips, Researchers, Grade 6
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Small, Ruth V. – School Library Research, 2014
Innovation is the essence of the American spirit. In the twenty-first century, it will be the innovative thinkers who will make the greatest contributions to our society, find cures for diseases, create technologies that enrich our lives, and find innovative solutions to the world's problems. Schools must provide more opportunities for students to…
Descriptors: Creativity, Innovation, Student Needs, Information Needs
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