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Office of Career, Technical, and Adult Education, US Department of Education, 2025
Career-connected learning is an educational strategy that combines high-quality academic instruction, skill-based learning, and real-world experiences to prepare students with the knowledge and skills that they need to pursue their college and career goals. Career-connected learning can be delivered in a variety of ways, including in core content…
Descriptors: Educational Strategies, Educational Quality, Career Readiness, Student Centered Learning
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Kylie S. Flynn; Linlin Li; Chun-Wei Huang; Ruchita Patel; Kim Luttgen; Shuangting Yang; Eunice Chow – Grantee Submission, 2024
We used a cluster-randomized controlled trial to examine the impacts of a technology- and game-based social-emotional program, the "Adventures Aboard the S.S. GRIN" ("Adventures"), on students' social skills development. Eighty-eight third-grade classrooms (N = 1645 third-grade students) across four California public school…
Descriptors: Social Emotional Learning, COVID-19, Pandemics, Technology Uses in Education
Office of Educational Technology, US Department of Education, 2019
To help teachers implement new, research-based approaches for leveraging technology to improve science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) learning, a systematic review of the research literature on the impact of integrating innovative digital technology in STEM and computer science curricula and classrooms was conducted. For purposes…
Descriptors: STEM Education, Educational Technology, Technology Uses in Education, Teaching Methods
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Dwivedi, Rajeev; Kumar, Arpan; Babu, Bharathy; Grandhi, Nipun; Meka, Rishi; Ahuja, Varun – Education Sciences, 2021
Finding context, examples, and ample hands-on experimentation is fundamental for understanding complex ideas in subjects such as science and math. Recent popularity of competitive robotics has become a catalyst in the development of DIY and hobby kits. Manufacturers have made available easy to work, re-configurable, and functional, structural…
Descriptors: Competition, Robotics, Class Activities, Skill Development
Terri L. Gray Johnson – ProQuest LLC, 2024
Limited research exists on the factors that contribute to community college students' development of self-efficacy (SE) while serving as preservice teachers (PSTs) during their early childhood education (ECE) practicum. This lack of research is concerning because educators who have high SE enhance the educational well-being of all children. The…
Descriptors: Early Childhood Teachers, Teacher Attitudes, Practicums, Self Efficacy
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Chen, Weina L.; Wong, Kevin M. – RELC Journal: A Journal of Language Teaching and Research, 2023
International students, particularly international English as a Second Language (ESL) students who come to the United States with relatively lower levels of English oral language proficiency, are often reluctant to participate in academic discussions. In a graduate-level TESOL program with a majority of international ESL students, a video…
Descriptors: Technology Uses in Education, Video Technology, Discussion, Foreign Students
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Hill, Jerell B. – Journal of Practical Studies in Education, 2021
Teacher preparation programs assist candidates with the pedagogical, theoretical, and practical application of teaching and learning. This article explored the dialog between a state education agency and teacher preparation programs' responses to the COVID-19 pandemic. The author presents a research study of current teacher performance…
Descriptors: Preservice Teachers, Preservice Teacher Education, COVID-19, Pandemics
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Linlin Li; Mingyu Feng; Hee Jin Bang – Society for Research on Educational Effectiveness, 2023
Background/Context: Mathematics education, especially at early grade levels, continues to be an important focus for national education improvement efforts, and more districts are introducing technology as part of their solution. Along with increasing consistent delivery of personalized and individualized learning to students, technology- and…
Descriptors: Mathematics Skills, Skill Development, Game Based Learning, Elementary School Students
Data Quality Campaign, 2018
Public interest in social-emotional learning is growing -- and the opportunities under the Every Student Succeeds Act have led many states and districts to consider the role of these skills in schools. As state and local leaders consider and commit to social-emotional learning programming in schools, they also have a responsibility to be…
Descriptors: Social Development, Emotional Development, Skill Development, Data Collection
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Parong, Jocelyn; Wells, Ashleigh; Mayer, Richard E. – Journal of Educational Psychology, 2020
Executive function is the set of cognitive skills needed for goal directed behavior and is a strong predictor of academic success (Best, 2014). The present study examines the effectiveness of a custom video game designed to train the executive function skill of shifting--being able to efficiently shift attention from 1 task to another. In…
Descriptors: Replication (Evaluation), Game Based Learning, Video Games, Executive Function
Smith, Maribeth D. – Phi Delta Kappan, 2017
In the age of fake news, teachers in every subject area should redouble their efforts to help students distinguish between credible and deceptive sources of information. The author calls attention to a few key resources, including the CRAAP guidelines developed at California State University, Chico, and promoted by the American Library Association.
Descriptors: Information Literacy, Information Sources, Evaluation Methods, Accuracy
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Vu, Viet; Warschauer, Mark; Yim, Soobin – Journal of Adolescent & Adult Literacy, 2019
With young people increasingly learning and communicating through visual and social media, schools are looking for ways to tap into students' interest in digital media. In a school district in Southern California, a very promising approach to technology use has emerged that integrates digital storytelling into instruction. Findings from a…
Descriptors: Academic Language, Story Telling, Media Literacy, Teaching Methods
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Morgan, Lori A. – i.e.: inquiry in education, 2016
Concern exists regarding civic education and involvement among youth in the United States. Where civic education is still given priority, instructional methods do not necessarily focus on the application of the knowledge gained in real and meaningful ways, which research has shown is critical to develop civic literacy and efficacy. This study…
Descriptors: Citizenship Education, Teaching Methods, Relevance (Education), Skill Development
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Larripa, Kamila; Mazzag, Borbala – PRIMUS, 2019
This article proposes that in addition to training teams of students to succeed in the Mathematical Contest in Modeling, the contest and the preparation for competition can be successfully used as a framework to teach an auxiliary skill set to undergraduate STEM majors through workshop-style modules. The skills emphasized are collaboration across…
Descriptors: Mathematical Models, Competition, STEM Education, Undergraduate Students
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Simplicio, Joseph – Reading Improvement, 2015
Every day all across America teachers assign their students stories to read and summarize. Unfortunately, many of these students find this to be an exercise in futility. Lacking the skills to effectively analyze the material, these students often struggle to properly summarize what they have read because they have never mastered the correct…
Descriptors: Social Media, Teaching Methods, Technology Uses in Education, Educational Technology
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