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Download full textMargolin, Jonathan; Pan, Jingtong; Friedman, Lawrence B.; Guyot, Katherine; Brown, Leah; Roach, Amy – American Institutes for Research, 2022
Playground Physics is a supplemental middle school science program designed to support embodied learning by enabling students to connect physics concepts to their own playful activities. The purpose of this study was to examine a model for scaling up the Playground Physics program and to determine the program's impact on middle school students'…
Descriptors: Middle Schools, Science Instruction, Learning Processes, Physics
Peer reviewedGe, Jenny; Smyth, Rachael E.; Searle, Michelle; Kirkpatrick, Lori; Evans, Rebecca; Elder, Alexa; Brown, Heather – Brock Education: A Journal of Educational Research and Practice, 2021
Technology continues to form an important part of the educational landscape, although the value of portable devices as learning tools is still being explored and debated. In light of the technology-based teaching methods suddenly brought into effect in response to the COVID-19 pandemic, the deliberate use of technology for learning is increasingly…
Descriptors: Educational Technology, Technology Uses in Education, COVID-19, Pandemics
Randel, Bruce – Online Submission, 2018
Century Analytics, Inc. conducted a rigorous evaluation of Edmentum's Exact Path to estimate the impact of Exact Path use on student achievement in reading in kindergarten through Grade 3. Exact Path is an online educational tool designed to support individualized student instruction. This study's quasi-experimental design (QED), analyses, and…
Descriptors: Reading Achievement, Kindergarten, Grade 1, Grade 2
Randel, Bruce – Online Submission, 2018
Century Analytics, Inc. conducted a rigorous evaluation of Edmentum's Exact Path to estimate the impact of Exact Path use on student achievement in mathematics in kindergarten through Grade 8. Exact Path is an online educational tool designed to support individualized student instruction. This study's quasi-experimental design (QED), analyses, and…
Descriptors: Kindergarten, Grade 1, Grade 2, Grade 3
Direct linkKetelhut, Diane Jass – Journal of Science Education and Technology, 2007
This exploratory study investigated data-gathering behaviors exhibited by 100 seventh-grade students as they participated in a scientific inquiry-based curriculum project delivered by a multi-user virtual environment (MUVE). This research examined the relationship between students' self-efficacy on entry into the authentic scientific activity and…
Descriptors: Student Behavior, Self Efficacy, Program Effectiveness, Learning Processes
Spektor-Levy, Ornit; Eylon, Bat-Sheva; Scherz, Zahava – International Journal of Science and Mathematics Education, 2009
This study explores the impact of "Scientific Communication" (SC) skills instruction on students' performances in scientific literacy assessment tasks. We present a general model for skills instruction, characterized by explicit and spiral instruction, integration into content learning, practice in several scientific topics, and application of…
Descriptors: Program Effectiveness, Communication Skills, Models, Grade 7
Games, Ivan Alex – Learning, Media and Technology, 2010
This article presents the results of a three-year study of "Gamestar Mechanic" (www.gamestarmechanic.com), a flash-based multiplayer online role-playing game developed for the MacArthur Foundation's digital media learning initiative by the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and Gamelab in New York. The game's objective is to help children…
Descriptors: Design, Role Playing, Discourse Analysis, Thinking Skills
Novotna, Jarmila, Ed.; Moraova, Hana, Ed.; Kratka, Magdalena, Ed.; Stehlikova, Nad'a, Ed. – International Group for the Psychology of Mathematics Education, 2006
This document contains the second volume of the proceedings of the 30th Annual Conference of the International Group for the Psychology of Mathematics Education. Conference presentations are centered around the theme "Mathematics at the Centre." This volume features 60 research reports by presenters with last names beginning between Abr…
Descriptors: Program Effectiveness, Foreign Countries, Middle Schools, Textbooks
