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Anthi Karatrantou; Vassiliki Giannoula; Chris Panagiotakopoulos; George Nikolaou – International Society for Technology, Education, and Science, 2023
The paper presents an attempt made to use the Arduino platform and the Scratch for Arduino (S4A) environment for the implementation of an educational project for 6th grade primary school students in a classroom attended by refugee, immigrants, and indigenous students. The aim was to investigate the opportunity to use educational robotics as tools…
Descriptors: Refugees, Robotics, Elementary School Students, Worksheets
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Erdogan, Ibrahim – International Journal of Environmental and Science Education, 2017
This study focuses on structured and guided inquiry instruction regarding question asking behaviors and curiosity of elementary students in Turkey. 177 sixth graders in 8 science courses were randomly assigned to treatment groups. Analysis of the data revealed that students in the guided inquiry groups asked higher-cognitive level questions and…
Descriptors: Elementary School Students, Grade 6, Learner Engagement, Personality Traits
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Shreyar, Sam; Zolkower, Betina; Perez, Silvia – Educational Studies in Mathematics, 2010
How does classroom interaction support students' apprenticeship into the ways of speaking, writing, and diagramming that constitute the practice of mathematics? We address this problem through an interpretative analysis of a whole-group conversation about alternative ways of solving a problem involving percent discounts that occurred in a sixth…
Descriptors: Classroom Communication, Mathematics Instruction, Problem Solving, Grade 6
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Gillies, Robyn M. – Pedagogies: An International Journal, 2013
This study reports on the types of academic talk that contribute to enhanced explanatory responses, reasoning, problem-solving and learning. The study involved 10 groups of 3-4 students who were provided with one of three linguistic tools (i.e. Cognitive Questioning, Philosophy for Children and Collaborative Strategic Reading (CSR)) to scaffold…
Descriptors: Academic Discourse, Classroom Communication, Inquiry, Science Instruction
Nathan, Mitchell J.; Eilam, Billie; Kim, Suyeon – Wisconsin Center for Education Research (NJ1), 2006
Theories of learning in social settings, no matter their philosophical orientation, must address issues of intersubjectivity (IS). This paper starts with the premise that IS is a fundamental and unavoidable aspect of social interaction, and that understanding its nature is necessary for developing reliable theories of socially mediated learning…
Descriptors: Learning Theories, Interpersonal Relationship, Interaction, Educational Research
Stamper, John, Ed.; Pardos, Zachary, Ed.; Mavrikis, Manolis, Ed.; McLaren, Bruce M., Ed. – International Educational Data Mining Society, 2014
The 7th International Conference on Education Data Mining held on July 4th-7th, 2014, at the Institute of Education, London, UK is the leading international forum for high-quality research that mines large data sets in order to answer educational research questions that shed light on the learning process. These data sets may come from the traces…
Descriptors: Information Retrieval, Data Processing, Data Analysis, Data Collection