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Yanan Zhang; Ying Zhan; Zhi Hong Wan; Daner Sun – International Journal of Science Education, 2024
Formative assessment has been long emphasised as a powerful means for enhancing science learning. However, there is still a lack of research to investigate the impacts of formative assessment on both students' motivational beliefs and behaviours in science learning. This study examined such impacts using data from six Western and six East Asian…
Descriptors: Achievement Tests, Foreign Countries, International Assessment, Secondary School Students
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Cai, Bei; Mainhood, Lindsay A.; Groome, Ryan; Laverty, Corinne; McLean, Alastair – Physical Review Physics Education Research, 2021
We investigated physics students' behavior in a second-year laboratory by analyzing transcribed audio recordings of laboratory sessions. One student group was given both a problem and procedure and asked to analyze and explain their results. Another was provided with only the problem and asked to design and execute the experiment, interpret the…
Descriptors: Physics, Science Instruction, Science Laboratories, Undergraduate Students
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Jessica Prioletta; Adam W. Davies – Contemporary Issues in Early Childhood, 2024
In this article, the authors argue for a rethinking of kindergarten education from a critical feminist perspective. They illustrate how the devaluation and denigration of femininity and care - otherwise known as femmephobia - that permeates patriarchal societies is present in the seemingly innocent spaces of play in kindergarten. Tracing…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Kindergarten, Femininity, Power Structure
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Sharma, Manu – Canadian Journal of Action Research, 2020
This study examines an action research project that included four kindergarten teachers who taught in the first year of the Ontario's mandated full day kindergarten (FDK) program, which began in September 2016. This action research project focused on the teachers' concerns about the constant unsafe violence, bullying and disruptive behaviour that…
Descriptors: Neoliberalism, Self Control, Foreign Countries, School Schedules
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Lessard, Valérie; Larose, Simon; Duchesne, Stéphane – International Journal of School & Educational Psychology, 2020
The aim of this study was to examine how mathematics tracking in high school (i.e., the practice of grouping students into basic or advanced sequences of courses) shapes students' perceived competence and their perception of the usefulness of their math courses. We hypothesized that the socioeducational environment of the math classroom (i.e.,…
Descriptors: Mathematics Instruction, Track System (Education), High School Students, Student Attitudes
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Grant, Kirsten C. – Childhood Education, 2017
The relationship between mindfulness, attention, and well-being is well established. In the field of education, mindfulness programs often focus on teaching children ways of coping with attentional and emotional difficulties. Mindfulness practices are also valued for teachers, and being a mindful teacher impacts the classroom environment. The…
Descriptors: Metacognition, Perception, Attention Control, Teacher Characteristics
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Anderson, Susan Rebecca; Joong, Peter Yee Han; Binns-Thompson, Shandelene Khadine Kedisha – AERA Online Paper Repository, 2017
This experimental mixed method research aimed to investigate: 1) the effects of integrating conflict resolution in mathematics on students' achievement in mathematics and knowledge, behaviours, and skills in violence prevention and conflict resolution; and 2) teaching strategies that can be used for the integration. A sample of four classes was…
Descriptors: Mathematics Instruction, Conflict Resolution, Teaching Methods, Violence
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Jacobson, Maya R. – Preventing School Failure, 2021
Traumatic experiences in children are pervasive, and trauma has been correlated with adverse academic outcomes, including school dropout. This research study aimed to answer the following question: According to selected educators in specialized programs in Ontario, in what ways are trauma-informed frameworks used to support the social-emotional…
Descriptors: Trauma, Teaching Methods, Student Needs, Stress Variables
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Gaywish, Rainey; Mordoch, Elaine – in education, 2018
The impact of trauma on learning in post-secondary institutions is largely ignored. However, recent studies on how Aboriginal people experience mental health issues are bringing attention to Aboriginal students' experiences of intergenerational trauma (IGT). IGT occurs when the maladaptive effects of an original trauma experience, such as historic…
Descriptors: Trauma, Indigenous Populations, College Students, Student Attrition
Canadian Teachers' Federation, 2021
The impact of the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic on public education systems around the world has been both rapid and profound. The global onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, and ensuing cancellation of face-to-face kindergarten to grade 12 (K-12) classes across Canada, has created the need to document and research its immediate impacts by means of a…
Descriptors: COVID-19, Pandemics, Elementary Secondary Education, Foreign Countries
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Holmes, N. G.; Kumar, Dhaneesh; Bonn, D. A. – Physical Review Physics Education Research, 2017
Developing critical thinking skills is a common goal of an undergraduate physics curriculum. How do students make sense of evidence and what do they do with it? In this study, we evaluated students' critical thinking behaviors through their written notebooks in an introductory physics laboratory course. We compared student behaviors in the…
Descriptors: Critical Thinking, Cues, Instructional Effectiveness, Thinking Skills
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Fan, Hong; Power, Jeffrey W.; Song, Xiaofei – Journal of Teaching in International Business, 2017
This study compares the impact of audience response systems (clickers) on the learning experience and classroom behavior of Chinese and Canadian students. Based on differences in student learning styles, which are rooted in the differences in national cultures, we predict that clicker technology will result in a more positive learning experience,…
Descriptors: Foreign Students, Audience Response Systems, International Trade, Business Administration Education
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Bartlett, Nadine A.; Freeze, Trevi B. – Exceptionality Education International, 2019
In the province of Manitoba, Canada, there is a gap between the rhetoric of inclusive education and its practical implementation. In the absence of inclusive educational policies and guidelines, deficit-based approaches such as categorical labels for students who are deemed to have a severe emotional and behavioural disorder, segregated…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Indigenous Populations, Minority Group Students, Special Education
National Center on Schoolwide Inclusive School Reform: The SWIFT Center, 2017
Inclusive Behavior Instruction features universal or schoolwide positive behavior interventions and supports in a multi-tiered system of support. Many schools use School-Wide Positive Behavior Intervention and Supports (SWPBIS; Horner et al., 2009) for this purpose. Andreau, McIntosh, Ross, and Kahn describe thirteen characteristics of…
Descriptors: Positive Behavior Supports, Intervention, Student Behavior, School Personnel
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Zhukovskyi, Vasyl; Kostiuk, Olha – Comparative Professional Pedagogy, 2015
The article deals with the issue of educational preconditions of gender education formation and development in Canadian secondary schools. On the basis of conducted scientific and pedagogical literature analysis it has been determined that gender education has undergone three main stages and is currently developing during its fourth, modern…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Secondary Education, Gender Issues, Educational Objectives
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