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Mehmet Ali Kandemir; Zeki Apaydin – Journal of Theoretical Educational Science, 2024
The aim of this longitudinal research is to examine the development process of scientific and consistent knowledge structures of first, second, and third-grade students in middle school within the concepts of melting and dissolution according to conceptual change theories at the end of the education and training processes carried out in…
Descriptors: Middle School Students, Foreign Countries, Scientific Concepts, Scientific Literacy
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Dorothea Glaesser; Christopher Holl; Julia Malinka; Laura McCullagh; Lydia Meissner; Nicole Syringa Harth; Maya Machunsky; Kristin Mitte – Social Psychology of Education: An International Journal, 2024
Disengagement is a concept that captures the gradual behavioral, affective, and cognitive distancing from school, and is thus an early indicator of students being at risk for dropout. Based on a social identity framework, we predicted that higher social identification with the class and a positive classroom climate would be associated with lower…
Descriptors: Learner Engagement, Social Environment, At Risk Students, Educational Environment
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Sijing Zhou; Yu Zhou – SAGE Open, 2024
Prior research on online language learning is extensive but mainly focused on higher education setting. However, secondary school learners' distance learning experiences and psychological profile have been largely neglected due to the fact that teenagers are rarely involved in distance learning. This situation has changed with schools moving their…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Junior High School Students, High School Students, Psychological Patterns
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Kowalski, Monica J.; Dallavis, Julie W.; Ponisciak, Stephen M.; Svarovsky, Gina – Journal of Catholic Education, 2023
As a ministry of the Catholic Church, Catholic schools are charged with educating students' hearts and minds. Multiple standardized academic tests and other student assessments are available for monitoring both student and teacher outcomes in Catholic schools, but fewer measures exist for considering the school's faith-related mission. Although…
Descriptors: Catholics, Catholic Schools, Elementary School Students, Student Attitudes
Michael McMurray – ProQuest LLC, 2021
Career and technical education (CTE) has long endured public scrutiny and bias, but unfortunately, the extent to which varying opinions have permeated secondary schools remains elusive. Therefore, this study examined secondary administrator, counselor, and subject-specific teacher opinions in three areas: (a) student secondary and postsecondary…
Descriptors: Principals, Administrator Attitudes, Career and Technical Education, Secondary Schools
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Özdemir, Esra Benli – International Journal of Curriculum and Instruction, 2022
In this study, it was aimed to determine the astronomy literacy levels of secondary school 5th, 6th, 7th and 8th grade students and to examine the sub-dimensions of astronomy literacy in terms of some variables. In the research, descriptive scanning method was used. The study was carried out with secondary school students studying in a secondary…
Descriptors: Astronomy, Knowledge Level, Secondary School Students, Grade 7
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Wang, Ya-Ling; Tsai, Chin-Chung – Research in Science Education, 2019
Students' conceptions of learning science and their relations with motive for learning may vary as the education level increases. This study aimed to compare the quantitative patterns in students' conceptions of learning science (COLS) and motives for learning science (MLS) across grade levels by adopting two survey instruments. A total of 768…
Descriptors: High School Students, Student Motivation, Instructional Program Divisions, Foreign Countries
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Bagnall, Charlotte Louise; Fox, Claire Louise; Skipper, Yvonne – Pastoral Care in Education, 2021
Across countries, the age and timing of when children navigate school transition varies, as does provision of support during this challenging time. These two factors can heavily shape young people's adjustment, yet to date there is minimal research which has investigated how this period is navigated in different cultures. The aim of the present…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Age, Instructional Program Divisions, Student Adjustment
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Huang, Hsin-Mei E. – EURASIA Journal of Mathematics, Science and Technology Education, 2020
The current study examined the effects of grade level and object size on the ability to estimate the measurement of objects. Fifth- (n = 198) and sixth-grade (n = 208) students and freshman undergraduate students (n = 71) from Taipei city, Taiwan, participated in the study. The findings indicated a tendency for measurement estimation ability to…
Descriptors: Instructional Program Divisions, Grade 5, Grade 6, College Freshmen
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Oberle, Alex – Journal of Geography, 2020
Designed for middle school grades, the National Geographic Geo-Inquiry Process engages students in geographic inquiry that begins with formulating a question that addresses an issue in the local community and ends with taking informed action to advocate for a specific, concrete solution. This research employs a pretest and post-test in classrooms…
Descriptors: Active Learning, Inquiry, Geography Instruction, Local Issues
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Landry, Jeffrey P.; Barnett, Harvey L.; Chapman, Debra L.; McCullough, Rosalind – Journal of Information Systems Education, 2019
A public university's computing outreach program focused on four key strategies for increasing the depth and breadth of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) education. This paper describes the development and implementation of a project management hands-on learning laboratory activity within the context of the university's…
Descriptors: Outreach Programs, Public Colleges, Computer Science Education, STEM Education
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Zhang, Yixin – Education and Information Technologies, 2019
Examining classroom teachers' use of electronic boards is crucial due to the rapid widespread replacement of traditional blackboards in schools. This study focuses on K-12 teachers' use of electronic boards in the classroom, quantitatively in four subscales -- presentation, motivation, engagement, and assessment, and teachers' attributes -- grade…
Descriptors: Educational Technology, Technology Uses in Education, Technology Integration, Elementary School Teachers
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Hanson, Janet – Journal of Educational Issues, 2017
This study explored the relationship between school level and the psychosocial construct of an academic mindset operationalized on the Likert-style Project for "Educational Research That Scales" (PERTS) instrument; widely used in testing academic mindset interventions at the classroom level. Analyses were conducted using existing school…
Descriptors: Likert Scales, Elementary School Students, Middle School Students, Correlation
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Gubbins, E. Jean; Siegle, Del; Hamilton, Rashea; Peters, Pamela; Carpenter, Ashley Y.; O'Rourke, Patricia; Puryear, Jeb; McCoach, D. Betsy; Long, Daniel; Bloomfield, Emma; Cross, Karen; Mun, Rachel U.; Amspaugh, Christina; Langley, Susan Dulong; Roberts, Anne; Estepar-Garcia, William – Grantee Submission, 2018
English learners (ELs) are the fastest growing population of learners in the United States; however, despite the growing numbers of ELs, their representation in gifted identification and programming continues to lag behind not only traditional populations of learners from advantaged communities, but also other underserved populations of learners.…
Descriptors: English Language Learners, Academically Gifted, Talent Identification, Elementary Schools
Fountain, Alyssa Rulf; Velez, Melissa; Gamse, Beth – Abt Associates, 2018
The vast majority of American students are neither prepared nor sufficiently engaged to become science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM)-literate citizens or innovative STEM professionals (National Research Council, 2007; Carnegie Corporation and the Institute for Advanced Study, 2009; National Science Board [NSB], 2010; President's…
Descriptors: STEM Education, Achievement Gap, Volunteers, Apprenticeships
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