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Cecilie Danah Price – ProQuest LLC, 2024
The purpose of this study was to determine how various security measures affect performance in two South Carolina middle schools, one high-performing, and one low-performing. This research study determined educators' attitudes toward safety in one high-performing and low-performing school in the low country area of South Carolina. There were five…
Descriptors: Teacher Attitudes, School Safety, Performance, Middle Schools
Kirçali, Aycan Çelik; Özdener, Nesrin – Technology, Knowledge and Learning, 2023
This study examines the effects of plugged and unplugged programming tools used in algorithm teaching at the K-12 level on student computational thinking skills and to determine whether gender is a factor in this process. The study group was designed with a control group pre-test--post-test; quasi-experimental model, that consisted of 109 students…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Teaching Methods, Learning Activities, Algorithms
Richado, Rino; Dwiningrum, Siti Irene Astuti; Wijaya, Ariyadi – Pegem Journal of Education and Instruction, 2023
Based on previous research, Computational Thinking (CT) Skills and attitudes can be influenced by gender differences. In addition, attitudes also have a correlation and influence on CT Skills. However, research on CT skills, attitudes, and gender for mathematics subjects and the relationship between CT skills for mathematics and attitudes is still…
Descriptors: Computation, Thinking Skills, Student Attitudes, Gender Differences
Yilmaz Özkan; Enes A. Bilgin; Günes Ugras – Journal of Pedagogical Research, 2025
The purpose of this study was to investigate the impact of computer-assisted instruction [CAI], incorporating virtual reality [VR], on the academic achievement of 6th-grade students in Science courses. The research employed a quasi-experimental design with a pre-test and post-test control group. Lessons in both experimental and control groups were…
Descriptors: Gender Differences, Teaching Methods, Computer Assisted Instruction, Academic Achievement
Valarie McMillan – ProQuest LLC, 2022
The COVID-19 pandemic caused unprecedented disruptions to teaching and learning. In March 2020, COVID-19 pandemic was recognized as a life-threatening virus, therefore, schools across the United States of America had an induced lockdown, which prevented the continuation of in-person learning. Adjustments, quickly, were made to the learning…
Descriptors: Reading Achievement, Language Arts, Mathematics Achievement, Grade 8
Pane, John F.; Seaman, Dorothy; Doss, Christopher Joseph – RAND Corporation, 2023
This report evaluates the effects of Lexia[TM] Core5[TM] Reading (Core5) -- a product of Lexia Learning Systems -- on the reading achievement of students in grades 3-5 during the 2021-2022 academic year. Core5 is a program that focuses on various student literacy skills, such as fluency, vocabulary, and comprehension. This report represents the…
Descriptors: Reading Instruction, Reading Programs, Reading Improvement, Reading Achievement
Gok, Tolga – Journal of Science and Mathematics Education in Southeast Asia, 2022
Purpose: The purpose of the research was to compare the attitudes of middle school, high school, and vocational high school students for different grades towards STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Mathematics). It also aimed to investigate which school type is more effective in implementing STEM. Method: The research was a quantitative…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Student Attitudes, STEM Education, Middle School Students
Solomon Admasu Luele – Cogent Education, 2023
This study investigates EFL students' reading motivational orientation among grades 9 and 10 in Tana Haik General Secondary School in Bahir Dar, Ethiopia. To carry out this research, a causal comparative design was employed, with a total of 292 participating students. For data collection, the researcher used Motivations for Reading Questionnaire…
Descriptors: Reading Motivation, Secondary School Students, Gender Differences, Grade 9
Göktepe Körpeoglu, Seda; Göktepe Yildiz, Sevda – Education and Information Technologies, 2023
Examining students' attitudes towards STEM (science, technology, engineering, and mathematics) fields starting from middle school level is important in their career choices and future planning. However, there is a need to investigate which variables affect students' attitudes towards STEM. Here, we aimed to estimate middle school students'…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Algorithms, Data Collection, Student Attitudes
Ryan T. Cox – ProQuest LLC, 2022
Research studies have suggested that students who participate in daily physical activity and who are more physically fit may have improved academic achievement scores. However, pressures on school districts to improve students' academic achievement in core course areas such as math, science, and English have put less emphasis on courses such as…
Descriptors: Mathematics Education, Physical Education, Physical Activity Level, Grade 9
The Moderating Role of Poverty on Parenting, Family Climate, and Early Adolescent Emotion Regulation
Wendy Hadley; AnnaCecilia McWhirter; Daschel Franz; Jaclyn Bogner; David H. Barker; Christie Rizzo; Christopher D. Houck – Journal of Early Adolescence, 2025
Among infants and children, family climate (e.g., warmth, cohesion, support) and parent emotion regulation (ER) modeling are found to shape ER development. Few studies have attended to this process during early adolescence, and most have neglected to examine the role of poverty, which creates additional challenges for parents and families. The…
Descriptors: Poverty, Parenting Skills, Parent Child Relationship, Self Control
Topal, Selda; Korkmaz, S. Deniz – Elementary School Forum (Mimbar Sekolah Dasar), 2023
Students should be provided with more meaningful learning experiences to attract more students to STEM careers, Out-of-School learning environments can offer students exciting and motivating learning opportunities that formal environments cannot provide. Therefore, national education reforms in many countries that are working on popularizing STEM…
Descriptors: Grade 6, STEM Education, Informal Education, Career Choice
Susilawati; Aznam, Nurfina; Paidi – European Journal of Educational Research, 2022
It should be noted that learning outcomes are not students' only achievement; attitude is also the main output in learning. This research explores students' attitudes toward science learning based on gender and the grade level of schools in Aceh, Indonesia. The participants are 1,023 students from the sixth grade of primary schools and the eighth…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Student Attitudes, Elementary School Students, Secondary School Students
Russell, Michael; Szendey, Olivia; Li, Zhushan – Educational Assessment, 2022
Recent research provides evidence that an intersectional approach to defining reference and focal groups results in a higher percentage of comparisons flagged for potential DIF. The study presented here examined the generalizability of this pattern across methods for examining DIF. While the level of DIF detection differed among the four methods…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Item Analysis, Test Items, Test Construction
XIA, Qi; Chiu, Thomas K. F. – AERA Online Paper Repository, 2023
Artificial intelligence (AI) education is still in the exploratory stage for K-12 schools. There is a serious lack of studies that informed schools teachers about AI curriculum design. Accordingly, this paper presented an AI curriculum and examined whether the curriculum improves students' perceived AI knowledge, attitudes, and motivation towards…
Descriptors: Artificial Intelligence, Learning Motivation, Teaching Methods, Academic Achievement