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Keast, Vicki J. – Australian Journal of Education, 2022
A sense of belonging is an important factor for the persistence of girls in the study of physics. Content and imagery that presents the field as a masculine domain will undermine belonging and make it more difficult for girls to establish a physics identity that is congruent with their gender identity. The physics syllabus, final examinations and…
Descriptors: Physics, Gender Bias, Science Instruction, Foreign Countries
Ursavas, Nazihan; Kesimal, Adem – Journal of Science Learning, 2020
School subjects divided into compulsory and elective courses. Compulsory courses are the basic courses that students must take to graduate, while elective courses give freedom for students. In Turkey, Biology courses taught as compulsory under the required courses in high schools. But, it is also instructed as elective courses called…
Descriptors: Student Attitudes, High School Students, Biology, Science Instruction
Becirovic, Senad; Hodžic, Fatima; Brdarevic-Celjo, Amna – European Journal of Contemporary Education, 2019
The need for developing critical thinking (CT) has been broadly discussed and its importance acknowledged in a myriad of disciplines. This quantitative study attempts to investigate the level of critical thinking skills as well as the impact of grade level, gender, and nationality on the development of these skills among 279 Bosnian-Herzegovinian…
Descriptors: Critical Thinking, High School Students, Skill Development, Teaching Methods
Julià, Carme; Antolì, Juan Òscar – International Journal of Technology and Design Education, 2018
There is a clear contemporary interest for developing science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) at schools. Besides, there exist a lot of research that justify the importance of spatial ability to obtain success in STEM subjects. Nevertheless, the spatial ability is relatively ignored in the general practice of teaching and learning…
Descriptors: Spatial Ability, STEM Education, Pretests Posttests, Elementary School Students
Nazari, Mostafa; Hashemi, Mohammad R. – Educational Action Research, 2022
The present action-research study explored the experience of a co-educational class in a context where it was a total educational novelty. Generating data from a number of sources before, during, and after the course, the study portrays how the participants experienced initial challenges followed by mutual adaptability toward the end of the…
Descriptors: Action Research, Coeducation, Educational Change, School Policy
Brown, Alan V.; Thompson, Gregory L. – Hispania, 2020
This article presents a descriptive analysis of the evolution of the world language Advanced Placement (AP) exam candidates' ethno-racial background, their heritage learner status, and language dominance, with particular emphasis on the two Spanish exams. The data come from aggregated national totals prepared by the College Board that include…
Descriptors: Spanish, Advanced Placement, Language Tests, Spanish Literature
Kelly, Mary Rose – ProQuest LLC, 2018
This three-article dissertation includes a book proposal and two articles. First, in the book proposal I tell the story of collaboratively designing and teaching a practice-based teacher education course called "Studio" with secondary English and History teacher candidates. This book provides examples of curriculum and clear and…
Descriptors: Social Justice, Class Activities, Teacher Education, Course Descriptions
Nasri, Najmeh; Vahid Dastjerdy, Hossein; Eslami Rasekh, Abbass; Amirian, Zahra – Innovation in Language Learning and Teaching, 2017
Owing to the importance of learner autonomy (LA) and considering the prominent role of teachers in this respect, the present study investigated: (1) Iranian English as a foreign language teachers' practices for promoting high school students' autonomy, (2) possible differences among teachers' practices with different educational degrees, levels of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, English (Second Language), Second Language Instruction, Language Teachers
Riegle-Crumb, Catherine; Moore, Chelsea – American Journal of Engineering Education, 2013
This paper examines gender inequality within the context of an upper-level high school engineering course recently offered in Texas. Data was collected from six high schools that serve students from a variety of backgrounds. Among the almost two hundred students who enrolled in this challenge-based engineering course, females constituted a clear…
Descriptors: Sex Fairness, Gender Differences, Engineering Education, High School Students
Azzarito, Laura; Simon, Mara; Marttinen, Risto – Sport, Education and Society, 2017
While ethnic-minority young people are increasingly defined as bodies "at disadvantage," marked as less fit or less healthy than the White "norm," the ways young people construct meanings around their bodies as a result of global health imperatives have received scant attention. The purpose of this participatory visual research…
Descriptors: Whites, Race, Human Body, Teaching Methods
Jalilehvand, Maryam; Samuel, Moses – Malaysian Online Journal of Educational Sciences, 2014
Based on the schema theory, it has been found that the background knowledge of males and females differs. This difference in background knowledge can affect the students' reading comprehension. In Iran, although boys and girls study in different schools, they follow the same curricula and syllabuses in all the schools. The present article reports…
Descriptors: Familiarity, Second Language Learning, Reading Processes, Schemata (Cognition)
Raftery, Deirdre; Harford, Judith; Valiulis, Maryann; Redmond, Jennifer – Irish Educational Studies, 2007
This articles reports on the findings of a study carried out in 2003-2004 which examined gender perspectives in the delivery and assessment of junior cycle history. The study was a collaborative effort between the School of Education and Lifelong Learning, University College Dublin, and the Centre for Gender and Women's Studies, Trinity College…
Descriptors: Females, Lifelong Learning, Foreign Countries, Instructional Materials
Jegede, S. A. – Educational Research and Reviews, 2007
The study was designed to find out students' anxiety towards the learning of chemistry, identify the factors that cause the anxiety, examine the disposition of sex towards the learning of chemistry and suggest ways to increase their taste towards the learning of the subject. Data for the study was obtained by administering a questionnaire to 300…
Descriptors: Chemistry, Employment Opportunities, Anxiety, Teaching Methods
McAllister, Deborah A., Ed.; Ezell, Benjamin T., Ed. – Online Submission, 2010
As a part of the teacher licensure program at the graduate level at The University of Tennessee at Chattanooga (UTC), the M.Ed. Licensure candidate is required to complete an action research project during a 3-semester-hour course that coincides with the 9-semester-hour student teaching experience. This course, Education 590 Culminating…
Descriptors: Action Research, Course Descriptions, Teacher Education, Graduate Students