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Gençtürk Güven, Ebru; Cincil, Fidaye; Küçük, Enes – International Journal of Contemporary Educational Research, 2023
Textbooks are among the most important means of education in terms of instilling leadership skills in students. The characters presented as models in the textbooks play an important part in building up such leadership skills with the help of quotes from such characters, texts written with reference to them, and the activities developed…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Grade 8, History Instruction, Textbooks
Zübeyde Çiçek; Murat Genç – Journal of Inquiry Based Activities, 2024
The purpose of this study is to develop a lesson plan that will facilitate the instruction of socioscientific issues and the acquisition of twenty-first century skills. To this end, a lesson plan comprising four hours of instruction was devised and presented in comprehensive detail. Three distinct activities were devised and executed as part of…
Descriptors: Lesson Plans, Science and Society, 21st Century Skills, Nuclear Energy
Christian Smoke – ProQuest LLC, 2023
Project-based learning (PjBL) instruction is an inquiry-based method that is beneficial to student achievement and their exploration of 21st-century learning skills, but there is a gap in the literature about how Grades 6 to 8 teachers feel about PjBL and its implementation. The research problem was science teachers in the United States were not…
Descriptors: Science Instruction, Grade 6, Grade 7, Grade 8
Pough, Celestine Banks – ProQuest LLC, 2023
The purpose of this action research study was to explore the impact of problem-based learning on science instruction in my eighth-grade college preparatory classroom. Constructivism was the framework for this study. Problem-based learning is based on constructivist principles, and it served as the instructional model for this study. PBL can foster…
Descriptors: Middle School Students, Problem Based Learning, Science Achievement, Science Instruction
Somphol, Ruambhorn; Pimsak, Anucha; Payoungkiattikun, Wisarut; Hemtasin, Chulida – Journal of Educational Issues, 2022
The purposes of this research were to create project-based learning (PjBL) activities and to improve the students' 4Cs skills using PjBL. The 4Cs of the learning skills assessment test and a record of student behavior serve as research tools. The mean and percentage are the statistics that were employed in the study. The results demonstrate that:…
Descriptors: Secondary School Students, Skill Development, Active Learning, Student Projects
Whitney-Smith, Rachael; Hurrell, Derek; Day, Lorraine – Mathematics Education Research Group of Australasia, 2022
In order to discuss the role of mathematics education in developing students' STEM Capabilities and 21st Century skills, it is necessary to define what is meant by these terms given the extent to which they are broadly used in global contexts. A literature review aimed at providing clarity, through affording a concise interpretation of each term…
Descriptors: 21st Century Skills, Mathematics Education, STEM Education, Definitions
Shayna Duncan – ProQuest LLC, 2023
The purpose of this Action Research study was to investigate professional development, specifically related to technology, which has not provided teachers with adequate 21st century learning opportunities. This study sought to investigate a possible solution to ineffective professional development. Participants and data collected in Cycle 1…
Descriptors: Technology Integration, Middle School Teachers, 21st Century Skills, Faculty Development
Elisa Serrano-Ausejo; Eva Mårell-Olsson – Education and Information Technologies, 2024
Organic chemistry, also known as stereochemistry, is a subject considered to be notably complex for students to understand. Knowledge construction in stereochemistry might demand the ability to imagine or visualise the distribution of atoms. For students with insufficient spatial ability, this could be confusing. This study aimed to explore…
Descriptors: Organic Chemistry, Computer Simulation, Physical Environment, Simulated Environment
Kelli Erwin – ProQuest LLC, 2020
Though today's students are considered digital natives, they lack the digital literacy skills needed to be competent and productive members of a digital society. The problem is a lack of evidence about the effectiveness of using content knowledge instruction and application experiences to develop students' digital literacy skills. The purpose of…
Descriptors: Digital Literacy, Instruction, Skill Development, 21st Century Skills
Penelope DeFreitas; Alicia Layne – International Journal of Computer Science Education in Schools, 2023
The Guyanese Girls Code (GGC) training program, established in 2018, is aimed at increasing female participation in ICT. As a result of the COVID-19 pandemic, the program shifted to virtual operations to ensure the safety of participants and instructors. This presented an opportunity to contribute to the growing body of research that has been…
Descriptors: Females, Information Technology, Preadolescents, Early Adolescents
George Nicholas Cornwell – ProQuest LLC, 2023
The purpose of this phenomenological study was to examine how integrative STEM teachers utilize the "Standards for Technological and Engineering Literacy" (STEL) to foster and assess 21st-century learning in technology and engineering classes at multiple Virginia public secondary schools. The theory guiding this study was Kolb's…
Descriptors: 21st Century Skills, STEM Education, Public Schools, Grade 6
Önür, Zehra; Kozikoglu, Ishak – Journal of Theoretical Educational Science, 2020
The purpose of this study is to reveal the relationship between 21st century learning skills and educational technology competencies of secondary school students. The population of this correlational research consists of 37.904 secondary school students in central districts (Ipekyolu, Tusba, and Edremit) of Van province. This study was carried out…
Descriptors: 21st Century Skills, Technological Literacy, Secondary School Students, Foreign Countries
Morgado, Sofia; Leite, Laurinda; Dourado, Luís – Journal of Turkish Science Education, 2022
Contextualised learning is required for learners to master successfully the 'big ideas' of science and to perceive the relevance of science education. Science curricula can either foster or impair teaching for contextualised learning depending on what science they plan to be taught and the way they recommend this to be done. This paper presents an…
Descriptors: Science Instruction, Science Curriculum, Check Lists, Science Teachers
Toheri; Winarso, Widodo; Haqq, Arif Abdul – European Journal of Educational Research, 2020
Learning models that can improve critical thinking, skills collaborate, communicate, and creative thinking are needed in the 21st-century education era. Critical and creative thinking are the two essential competencies of the four skills required in the 21st century. However, both are still difficult to achieve well by students due to a lack of…
Descriptors: Critical Thinking, Creative Thinking, Problem Solving, Context Effect
Uysal, Funda; Özkan Elgün, Imeghan – International Journal of Curriculum and Instructional Studies, 2020
The aim of this research study is to analyze the critical attainments determined by the Board of Education in the curriculum of the eighth-grade basic lessons that is mathematics, Turkish, English, science, Atatürk and Turkish revolution history and religious culture and moral knowledge which are conducted online in this pandemic process according…
Descriptors: 21st Century Skills, Grade 8, Curriculum, Mathematics