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Annika Thyberg; Konrad Schönborn; Niklas Gericke – Research in Science Education, 2025
This study investigates the progression of students' meaning-making of epigenetic phenomena while discussing multiple visual representations depicted at different levels of biological organization. Semi-structured focus group sessions involving ninth-grade students (aged 15-16) from a Swedish lower secondary school were video recorded. Students'…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Grade 9, Science Education, Biology
Coleen Morgan – ProQuest LLC, 2024
The problem in this study was that despite encouragement from administrators, kindergarten through Grade 8 teachers struggled to use project-based learning (PBL) in a local school in the Association of Independent Maryland and DC Schools (AIMS). Rooted in Kilpatrick's progressive philosophy of education and Piaget's theory of constructivism, this…
Descriptors: Teaching Experience, Active Learning, Student Projects, Kindergarten
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Wurdinger, Scott; Newell, Ron; Kim, En Sun – Improving Schools, 2020
Eleven project-based learning charter schools participated in this correlational study. Eight have participated for 2 years and three for 1 year. The schools are affiliated with EdVisions, a non-profit organization that helps create individualized, project-based learning schools. There were five variables in this correlational study: the hope…
Descriptors: Active Learning, Student Projects, Academic Achievement, Reading Achievement
Kraft, Matthew A.; Marinell, William H.; Yee, Darrick – Research Alliance for New York City Schools, 2016
We study the relationship between school organizational contexts, teacher turnover, and student achievement in New York City (NYC) middle schools. Using factor analysis, we construct measures of four distinct dimensions of school contexts captured on the annual NYC School Survey. We identify credible estimates by isolating variation in…
Descriptors: Faculty Mobility, Academic Achievement, School Organization, Educational Environment
Looby, Karen; Gore, Kurt – Online Submission, 2008
This report summarizes results of the 2007-2008 evaluation of Austin Partners in Education's program in the Austin Independent School District.
Descriptors: School Districts, Program Evaluation, Partnerships in Education, Nonprofit Organizations