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Acikalin, Mehmet – Canadian Social Studies, 2014
The Internet has become one of the most common educational tools used by teachers and students in social studies education worldwide. Although there are extensive studies on how the Internet is used by teachers as an instructional tool in social studies classes, less work has been done to explain how students themselves use and interact with…
Descriptors: Middle School Students, Foreign Countries, Internet, Social Studies
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Dumont, Hanna; Trautwein, Ulrich; Nagy, Gabriel; Nagengast, Benjamin – Journal of Educational Psychology, 2014
This study examined predictors of the quality of parental homework involvement and reciprocal relations between the quality of parental homework involvement and students' reading achievement and academic functioning in a reading-intensive subject (German). Data from 2,830 students in nonacademic tracks and their parents who were surveyed in both…
Descriptors: Parent Participation, Homework, Predictor Variables, Reading Achievement
Fairman, Janet; Porter, Michael; Fisher, Susannah – Grantee Submission, 2015
This report presents the findings from interviews with principals about their schools' participation in the ASSISTments efficacy study on seventh-grade mathematics. The purpose of the interviews was to explore the following areas: To what extent schools had policies or expectations regarding homework practice and completion; To what extent schools…
Descriptors: Principals, Homework, Mathematics Instruction, Technology Uses in Education
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Taniguchi, Kyoko – World Journal of Education, 2017
This study identifies individual, family, and school factors associated with student mobility. Specifically, for Grade 5 students, parents alive and school location were associated with transfer. For students in Grade 7, gender differences, levels of achievement, feelings about school, number of household tasks, distance to school, and parental…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Elementary School Students, Student Mobility, Student Characteristics
Amerine, Melissa; Pender, Lisa; Schuler, Kristin – Online Submission, 2009
The purpose of this action research project was to increase homework completion through the use of motivating strategies. There were approximately 75 students, 100 parents, and three teacher researchers involved in this study. The three intervention strategies used were 15 minutes of class time, extrinsic rewards, and assignment notebook checks.…
Descriptors: Homework, Intervention, Action Research, Student Motivation
Shultz, David – 1998
This report describes a project designed to decrease the number of missing, incomplete, and late assignments of seventh-grade students in a middle school science class. The students attended a small parochial school in a suburb of a large midwestern city. The students' problems with organization were documented through anecdotal records; surveys…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Change Strategies, Grade 7, Homework
Tittle, Carol Kehr; Hecht, Deborah – 1990
This manual describes the Mathematics Assessment Questionnaire (MAQ) and its development, provides relevant background from the research literature, describes approaches to the reporting and uses of the MAQ (including its use in instructional planning), and presents sample responses from students and classes. The MAQ provides teachers and students…
Descriptors: Attribution Theory, Classroom Environment, Grade 7, Grade 8