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Direct linkShireen Al-Adeimi; Rebecca Lee – Journal of Adolescent & Adult Literacy, 2025
While scholars emphasize the importance of dialogic talk in fostering students' critical thinking, collaborative learning, and literacy, it remains rare in classroom practice. To better understand students' perspectives on motivations and hindrances for engaging in such discussions, this mixed methods study analyzes 693 survey responses from…
Descriptors: Early Adolescents, Adolescent Attitudes, Classroom Communication, Middle School Students
Gregory E. McAvoy; Paula McAvoy; Rachel Waltz; Emily Grace – Democracy & Education, 2025
This study investigates the effectiveness of two pedagogical strategies--deliberation and debate--in fostering productive political discussions among high school students, with a focus on overcoming affective polarization. Paying attention to students' comfort, engagement, and willingness to participate, this study employs a mixed-method approach…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Discussion (Teaching Technique), Debate, Political Issues
Beth E. Schueler; Katherine E. Larned – Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis, 2025
Few interventions reduce inequality in reading achievement, let alone higher-order thinking skills, among adolescents. We study policy debate--an extracurricular activity focused on improving middle and high schoolers' critical thinking, argumentation, and policy analysis skills--in Boston schools serving large concentrations of economically…
Descriptors: Reading Achievement, Critical Thinking, Equal Education, Educational Policy
Download full textLeah P. McCoy, Editor – Online Submission, 2025
This document presents the proceedings of the 29th Annual Research Forum held June 26, 2025, at Wake Forest University in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. Included are the following eight action research papers: (1) The Influence of Cross-Curricular Pedagogy on Student Engagement in ELA Classrooms (Anna Breaugh); (2) The Influence of Guided Free…
Descriptors: Learner Engagement, English Instruction, Interdisciplinary Approach, High School Students
