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Direct linkJacob Steiss; Jenell Krishnan; Jiali Wang – Social Studies, 2024
Developing disciplinary literacy is an emerging priority for secondary teachers as they prepare students for college, career, and civic life. One way to develop and assess disciplinary literacy in history is through source-based argument writing (SBAW) with multiple sources. SBAW requires students to synthesize information across texts and use…
Descriptors: Grade 8, History Instruction, Writing Instruction, Writing Skills
Download full textYildirim, Münevver; Simsek, Ufuk – Shanlax International Journal of Education, 2023
The present study aimed to examine the possible influence of writing-to-learn activities on students' academic performance and achievement in social studies course and to collect student opinions in this regard. This study was carried out with a total of 83 (43 in the experimental group and 40 in the control group) 5th grade students studying in a…
Descriptors: Social Studies, Learning Activities, Academic Achievement, Grade 5
Jessica Raley – ProQuest LLC, 2024
Mathematical justifications offer an approach to which students deepen and extend their mathematical thinking. This process has the potential to enhance students' conceptual understanding. Mathematical practices and process standards ask students to use critical thinking skills to justify their reasoning, but this is usually seen as proofs in high…
Descriptors: Mathematical Concepts, Concept Formation, Mathematical Logic, Thinking Skills
Amie M. Wright – ProQuest LLC, 2024
This research study examined the relationship between school leadership style and the use of writing across the curriculum (WAC) in secondary classrooms. Writing practices and the use of writing as a form of assessment in subject areas other than ELA is thought to be a way to better prepare students to meet the literacy expectations of the 21st…
Descriptors: Transformational Leadership, Writing Across the Curriculum, Administrators, Learning Strategies
Jacob Steiss; Jiali Wang; Young-Suk Grace Kim; Carol Booth Olson – Written Communication, 2024
Developing students' source-based argument writing skills is a vital educational goal for the 21st-century information society. Consequently, researchers and educators continually seek ways to understand and improve students' capacities for advancing arguments and synthesizing multiple documents, texts, or sources in a range of subject areas in…
Descriptors: Persuasive Discourse, History Instruction, Writing (Composition), Essays
Emel Sasmaz; Selcen Çifci – International Journal of Education and Literacy Studies, 2023
In this study, it was aimed to develop a rubric to determine the travel writing levels of secondary school 7th grade students and to determine the students' travel writing skill levels. The descriptive scanning design of the quantitative model was adopted. It was decided to develop an analytical rubric because it serves to measure the sub-skills…
Descriptors: Writing Skills, Content Area Writing, Travel, Writing Evaluation
Khan, Anika Tajrian; Chowdhury, Golam Mahmud; Hafsah, Juwairiyah; Maruf, Md; Raihan, Md Riyad Hossen; Chowdhury, Md Talha; Nawal, Nafisa; Tasnim, Nishat; Saha, Pranto; Roy, Prottoy; Tabassum, Raya; Rodrigues, Souvick Patrick; Hasan, Walid; Samanta, Zarin Tasnim; Kamal, Suprio; Nazir, Md Shahoriar; Ali, Md Ackas; Halim, Mohammad A. – Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Education, 2022
The main protease of SARS-CoV-2 is a promising drug target due to its functional role as a catalytic dyad in mediating proteolysis during the viral life cycle. In this study, experimentally proven 14 HIV protease peptides were screened against the main protease of SARS-CoV-2. Fourteen middle and high school "student researchers" were…
Descriptors: COVID-19, Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome (AIDS), Middle School Students, High School Students
Husemann, Charlotte – History Education Research Journal, 2023
The purpose of this study was to examine the writing skills of 7th- and 8th-grade students with a high proportion of migration background in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. The study was part of the SchriFT project (2017-20), funded by the Federal Ministry of Education and Research. A writing task was given on the topic: "Why can we only…
Descriptors: Content Area Writing, Writing Skills, Thinking Skills, History Instruction
Traga Philippakos, Zoi A.; MacArthur, Charles A. – Clearing House: A Journal of Educational Strategies, Issues and Ideas, 2021
The purpose of the study was to examine the effects of an instructional intervention and its professional development (PD) on the opinion and argumentative writing of middle school students and on teachers' instructional delivery. The study utilized a design-based methodology and collected qualitative and quantitative data in order to identify…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Middle School Students, Language Arts, Science Education
Stacie Brady – ProQuest LLC, 2021
The purpose of this study, secondary data analysis, was to analyze the argumentative and informative essay writing of middle school students with disabilities. Inflectional, derivational, and compound word morphological forms within 360 essays were coded and analyzed using descriptive and inferential statistics. Results are grouped into categories…
Descriptors: Middle School Students, Students with Disabilities, Writing (Composition), Morphology (Languages)
Michelle Jackson Greenberg – ProQuest LLC, 2022
Research supports the finding that middle school students prefer hands-on activities to reading and writing to learn new information. However, disciplinary literacy, the reading and writing in science class, is an integral part of inquiry-based science instruction and a necessary complement to hands-on instruction to build student understanding.…
Descriptors: Middle School Students, Science Instruction, Learner Engagement, Scientific Literacy
Palines, Kareen Marie E.; Ortega-Dela Cruz, Ruth A. – LUMAT: International Journal on Math, Science and Technology Education, 2021
The study used causal-comparative research design to examine the scientific literacy among randomly selected Junior High School students under the Science, Technology and Engineering Program (STEP) of a National High School in the Philippines. Specifically, it investigated the factors that facilitate and hinder the students' ability to write and…
Descriptors: Scientific Literacy, Skill Development, Junior High School Students, Foreign Countries
O'Byrne, W. Ian; Savitz, Rachelle S.; Morrison, Jennifer; Kane, Britnie; Lilly, Todd; Ming, Kavin Michelle; Aldrich, Charlene – Clearing House: A Journal of Educational Strategies, Issues and Ideas, 2021
Nationally published research suggests middle and high school educators are often experts within their respective disciplines, but they may be unprepared to effectively consider literacy needs and ways to incorporate literacy within their discipline. To better understand teachers' perceived capabilities in their ability to teach and incorporate…
Descriptors: Literacy Education, Test Construction, Test Validity, Content Area Reading
Murray-Orr, Anne; Mitton, Jennifer – Cogent Education, 2023
The findings of this inquiry emerged from a research study conducted over two years in two schools investigating how teachers support learners from populations who have been historically underserved by a provincial education system in Canada. Emerging from a focus on how teachers in four rural middle school classrooms supported literacy…
Descriptors: Equal Education, Rural Schools, Middle School Teachers, Literacy Education
Yildiz, Emre; Simsek, Ümit – International Journal of Game-Based Learning, 2022
The aim of this study was to compare the effect of educational game (EG), reading-writing-game (RWG), reading-writing-application (RWA), and traditional methods on academic achievement, motivation, anxiety, and retention of their knowledge. On this basis, pretest-posttest control group quasi-experimental design was followed. Thus, the sample of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Grade 7, Secondary School Students, Educational Games
