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A Quest to Nurture Creativity in Technology Classrooms: Are Physical Factors a Spanner in the Works?
Maokanyane Patricia Magolego; Isaaac Thokozani Mtshali; Ramaligela Sylvia Manto – Research in Social Sciences and Technology, 2024
Nurturing creativity in Technology classrooms will, potentially, prepare learners for adaptability to the sweeping transformations that the new industrial revolutions portend and equip them to maximise the opportunities inherent in these revolutions. This study examined the effects of physical factors on the development of creativity in Grade 9…
Descriptors: Creativity, Technology, Grade 9, Physical Environment
Siyu Yu; Xiaoyue Zhang; Rong Tao; Wanyu Huang; Jiangsheng Chen; Xieyu Xiao – SAGE Open, 2025
This study explores the relationship between seating quadrants and student performance, including the role of classroom type in the quadrant effect. Data collected from 131 classes taught at 17 colleges of Northwest A&F University in China were analyzed using the ordinary least squares method. The results revealed that where a student sat in a…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Undergraduate Students, Class Size, Large Group Instruction
British Columbia Teachers' Federation, 2023
This Research Note discusses research on class size reduction (CSR). The research on CSR is not definitive but a contested, ongoing debate. The research on CSR has been severely limited by the singular focus on student academic performance, although some studies have sought to expand the conversation by focusing on the impact of CSR on teaching…
Descriptors: Class Size, Classroom Environment, Academic Achievement, Educational Research
Li Luo; Yuxi Qiu; Shasha Lyu; He Ge; Hao Liu – Early Education and Development, 2024
A growing number of toddlers are attending childcare institutions as part of China's establishment of its infant-toddler childcare service system. However, there is limited empirical evidence available regarding the quality of these childcare services. The purpose of this study is to investigate the quality of teacher - child interactions in…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Teacher Student Relationship, Interaction, Toddlers
Mjege Kinyota – Science Education International, 2023
This study used a three-phase design to explore how teachers' views and practices of scientific inquiry can be reconciled with early graders' ability to engage in scientific inquiry. First, 19 early years teachers were interviewed to explore their views and practices of scientific inquiry. Second, six standard two students were exposed to a…
Descriptors: Teacher Attitudes, Science Instruction, Barriers, Scientific Research
Ndidi, Meremikwu Anne; Effiong, Ibok Ekpenyong – Educational Research and Reviews, 2020
This study examined classroom environment and mathematics achievement of senior secondary school (SS2) students' in the Calabar Cross River State, Nigeria. Ex-post facto quasi-experimental research design was used to test two hypotheses on the influence of two classroom variables, class size and instructional materials on students' academic…
Descriptors: Classroom Environment, Environmental Influences, Secondary School Students, Mathematics Achievement
Pan, Bin; Garandeau, Claire F.; Li, Tengfei; Ji, Linqin; Salmivalli, Christina; Zhang, Wenxin – Journal of Educational Psychology, 2023
Social dominance goals have been conceptualized as orientations toward powerful and prominent positions in the peer group. Although previous studies have identified social dominance goals as one of the main motivations behind bullying, few studies have disentangled the time-invariant (average level) from the time-varying (year-to-year) effects of…
Descriptors: Bullying, Grade 3, Elementary School Students, Grade 4
Dereli, Esra; Deli, Hatice – Participatory Educational Research, 2022
The main purpose in the study was to determine the knowledge and needs of pre-school teachers related to gifted children and the enrichment model. The study employs one of the qualitative research methods. The study group of the current research is comprised of 30 pre-school teachers selected by using the snowball sampling method from different…
Descriptors: Preservice Teachers, Knowledge Level, Academically Gifted, Talent Identification
Blatchford, Peter – Education 3-13, 2021
The issue of class size is a complex and contested topic that has divided opinion for many years. Whilst many teachers believe that smaller class sizes assist in enhancing outcomes, a number of policy influencers, policy makers and researchers argue that it has little influence on success in learning and that decreasing class sizes is not…
Descriptors: Class Size, Teacher Attitudes, Cost Effectiveness, Educational Research
Gabriela Fretes; Cèlia Llurba; Ramon Palau – Journal of Technology and Science Education, 2023
To recognize and assess the job stressors that teachers face in daily practice is essential. One of the most used objective measures of stress is the heart rate (HR). This pilot study explored the use of a wearable device (smartwatch) to monitor the HR of two teachers over two weeks in the classroom. Educational context variables (subject, class…
Descriptors: Stress Variables, Teaching Conditions, Measurement Equipment, Information Technology
Alzamil, Jwahir – Journal of Education and Learning, 2021
Teaching supervision is carried out by principals, and its purpose is to evaluate teachers' teaching practices in the classroom. This study addresses a gap in the teaching supervision literature, which relates to the fact that studies in the teaching supervision literature have overlooked the obstacles principals face when supervising teachers in…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Principals, Administrator Role, Teacher Supervision
Brännström, Karl Jonas; Karjalainen, Suvi; Sahlén, Birgitta; Andersson, Ketty; Lyberg-Åhlander, Viveka; Christensson, Jonas – Child Language Teaching and Therapy, 2022
The present study reports on the development of a questionnaire that evaluates children's experiences of their physical classroom environment, activities and interactions. It also explores the psychometric properties of the questionnaire and how acoustical characteristics of the classroom, class size and student characteristics (age, sex and…
Descriptors: Test Construction, Questionnaires, Classroom Environment, Learning Activities
Cagasan, Louie; Care, Esther; Robertson, Pamela; Luo, Rebekah – Educational Assessment, 2020
This paper explores ways of capturing teachers' formative assessment behaviors in Philippine classrooms through an observation tool. Early versions of the tool were structured using the 'Elicit-Student response-Recognize-Use' ESRU model. To account for the practices observed in the classroom, the observation tool was resituated to focus on Elicit…
Descriptors: Formative Evaluation, Teacher Student Relationship, Classroom Observation Techniques, Cultural Context
Wyslowska, Olga; Slot, Pauline L. – Early Education and Development, 2020
This cross-national study involved 56 toddler classrooms in Poland and the Netherlands. A cluster analysis was conducted to identify classroom profiles based on observed quality and these were compared regarding structural (group size and children-to-teacher ratio) and curriculum (e.g. pre-academics and pretend play) characteristics. In total, 224…
Descriptors: Early Childhood Education, Educational Quality, Child Care, Comparative Education
Coelho, Vitor Alexandre; Sousa, Vanda – School Psychology International, 2018
The aim of the present study was to examine whether class-level characteristics, such as class size and gender ratio, could contribute to explaining different levels of bullying, victimization, and perception of defending between classes. Seven-hundred-and-sixty-three students (M[subscript age] = 12.96, SD = 1.22; 54.4% boys) from 42 Portuguese…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Classroom Environment, Class Size, Gender Issues