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Shorai Prisca Parayiwa; Nonkanyiso Pamella Shabalala – International Journal of Development Education and Global Learning, 2025
This study explores the extent of environmental awareness and eco-friendly practices among high school students in the Johannesburg Central District, South Africa. The study adopted a qualitative research approach, case study design where four schools were classified as cases, and it purposively sampled 26 Grade 11 and 24 Grade 8 high school…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Conservation (Environment), Ecology, High School Students
Chiang, Feng-Kuang; Wang, Shan; Tang, Zhonghua – Education Sciences, 2022
The outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic has caused increasing concern over health care, part of which involves the role of nutrition. In this study, a nutrition educational board game, featuring quantitative computation, was designed to help students acquire nutrition knowledge and improve dietary behaviors. A group of 22 students in grade 7 of a…
Descriptors: Educational Games, Nutrition Instruction, Foods Instruction, Foreign Countries
James J. Meadows III – ProQuest LLC, 2023
The purpose of this exploratory qualitative study was to explore the impacts security training experts believe implementing a mandatory gamified security awareness training curriculum in public middle schools will have on the long-term security behavior of students in Texas. My study addressed whether security training for teenagers will solve the…
Descriptors: Middle School Students, Public Schools, Gamification, Educational Games
Chouliara, Xanthi; Tsatiris, Michael – NORDSCI, 2022
The purpose of this research is to explore the views of pupils of primary (6th grade) and secondary education (3rd grade of Gymnasium & 3rd grade of lyceum) of the Ionian Islands, about renewable sources and energy saving. In Greece, significant research has been carried out on renewable sources and energy saving. Their findings showed that…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Elementary School Students, Grade 6, Secondary School Students
Rohmatulloh; Hasanah, Aan; Sahlani, Lalan; Zuhri, M. Tajudin; Kholifah, Nur; Nurtanto, Muhammad – Pegem Journal of Education and Instruction, 2022
Energy literacy is high on the agenda in the education sector, including in the contexts of primary and middle schools. It has the purpose of building awareness of wise energy use. A systematic review of various energy literacy studies in the period 2010-2021 was conducted to explore study trend, research methods, and adapted energy literacy…
Descriptors: Energy Conservation, Energy, Energy Education, Multiple Literacies
Smith, Jason A.; Quick, Marilynn – Journal of Organizational and Educational Leadership, 2023
Most teachers are not trained on how to support students who struggle with trauma. Childhood trauma not only impacts a teacher's ability to teach, but also threatens their students' futures. The purpose of this qualitative study was to investigate teachers' perceptions and actions when they participated in trauma professional development.…
Descriptors: Middle School Teachers, Middle School Students, Teacher Response, Child Behavior
Kahan, David; Evans, Adriana – American Journal of Health Education, 2020
Background: Faith-based school physical activity (PA) interventions are uncommon. Process evaluations of school PA interventions, in general, rarely include student participant voices. Purpose: We interviewed a subset of participants in Physical Activity for Lent (PAL) -- a pedometer-based virtual journey that traces Jesus's life travels -- to…
Descriptors: Physical Activities, Intervention, Middle School Students, Middle Schools
Torres, Hannah R.; Reynolds, C. J.; Lewis, Anna; Muller-Karger, Frank; Alsharif, Kamal; Mastenbrook, Katie – Environmental Education Research, 2019
Youth have astute observations about site-specific personal and environmental factors that contribute to littering and marine debris, and they have a strong potential to act as change agents in communities. Interactions with youth in Pinellas County Florida add insights into a growing body of research on environmental education and marine debris…
Descriptors: Environmental Education, Water Pollution, Middle School Students, High School Students
Zhu, Xihe; Haegele, Justin A – Health Education Journal, 2018
Objective: Health-related fitness knowledge holds the potential for physical activity and behavioural changes. The purpose of this retrospective longitudinal study with retrospective data was (a) to examine high-school students' health-related fitness knowledge growth through the 9th, 10th and 11th grades under one curriculum condition and (b) to…
Descriptors: Knowledge Level, High School Students, Physical Fitness, School Districts
Hayford, Samuel K.; Avoke, Selete; Ocansey, Frederick – Multicultural Learning and Teaching, 2019
The study was designed to explore the general knowledge, practices and views of students with visual impairment about HIV/AIDS in order to identify the gaps in students' knowledge and inform decisions on instructional strategies and materials to improve students' knowledge. Specifically, the study examined the nature of knowledge students with…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Knowledge Level, Visual Impairments, Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome (AIDS)
Hermans, Mikaela; Korhonen, Johan – International Research in Geographical and Environmental Education, 2017
The aim of this study is to examine Finnish ninth graders' attitudes towards the consequences of climate change, their views on climate change mitigation and the impact of a set of selected predictors on their willingness to act in climate change mitigation. Students (N = 549) from 11 secondary schools participated in the questionnaire-based…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Secondary School Students, Grade 9, Student Attitudes
Oman, Roy F.; Merritt, Breanca T.; Fluhr, Janene; Williams, Jean M. – Journal of School Health, 2015
Background: The purpose of this study is to compare the effectiveness of a national comprehensive teen pregnancy prevention (TPP) intervention to a national abstinence-only TPP intervention on middle school students' knowledge, attitudes, and behaviors related to teen sexual behaviors in a state with high teen birth rates. Methods: Pre- and…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Pregnancy, Intervention, Early Parenthood
Donnelly, Joseph; Horn, Robert R.; Young, Michael; Ivanescu, Andrada E. – Journal of School Health, 2016
Background: The purpose of the study was to examine the effects of the "Yes You Can!" ("YYC") curriculum on sexual knowledge and behavioral intent of program participants. Methods: Participants included students ages 10-14 from schools in a northeast US urban area. "Yes You Can!" program lessons were designed to…
Descriptors: Middle School Students, Sex Education, Sexuality, Curriculum
Beavers, Amy S.; Murphy, Lindsay; Richards, Jennifer K. – Journal of Food Science Education, 2015
A successfully targeted intervention can influence food safety knowledge, attitudes, and behaviors, as well as encourage participants to recognize their own responsibility for safe food handling. This acknowledgement of an individual's responsibility and capacity to address food safety can be understood as self-efficacy of food safety (SEFS). This…
Descriptors: Intervention, Food, Safety, Health Promotion
Bofferding, Laura; Kloser, Matthew – Environmental Education Research, 2015
Both scientists and policy-makers emphasize the importance of education for influencing pro-environmental behavior and minimizing the effects of climate change on biological and physical systems. Education has the potential to impact students' system knowledge--their understanding of the variables that affect the climate system--and action…
Descriptors: Environmental Education, Middle School Students, High School Students, Climate
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