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Nur Salwa Nisrina; Meilinda Melinda; Yenny Anwar; Dedi Kurniawan – International Journal of Research in Education and Science, 2025
This pressing issue requires immediate attention and action. Education, particularly STEM education, is one of the key areas that can contribute to addressing this issue. STEM education is an alternative learning strategy that can enhance students' problem-solving and decision-making skills in relation to the challenges posed by the need for clean…
Descriptors: STEM Education, Problem Solving, Decision Making, Water Pollution
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Hwiyoung P. Lee; Ram A. Cnaan – Grantee Submission, 2025
Diminishing civic vitality has been reported in numerous societies, irrespective of democratic maturity. Mandatory community service initiatives in schools have garnered attention as a strategy for fostering long-term civic engagement. However, methodological challenges such as selection bias and observation timing have led to inconsistent…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Service Learning, Middle School Students, High School Students
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Plasman, Jay; Thompson, Caleb – International Journal of Training and Development, 2023
Recent updates to federal policy governing career and technical education (CTE) in the United States have emphasised the need to include work-based learning (WBL) experiences as central components of CTE programming. Many of these experiences showcase an informal learning component which has strong ties to early career success as suggested by the…
Descriptors: Vocational Education, Experiential Learning, Work Experience Programs, Informal Education
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Baytelman, Andreani; Loizou, Theonitsa; Hadjiconstantinou, Salomi – Center for Educational Policy Studies Journal, 2023
This study researches relationships between 12th-grade students' epistemological beliefs towards science and their conceptual understanding of evolution by natural selection. Forty-two 12th-grade students in a suburban high school in Cyprus, who participated in a biology course, completed measures of their: (1) epistemological beliefs towards…
Descriptors: Grade 12, High School Seniors, Beliefs, Scientific Concepts
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Rocker Yoel, Shahaf; Dori, Yehudit Judy – IEEE Transactions on Education, 2022
Contributions: The study contributes to the social cognitive career theory (SCCT) by explaining high-school students' career choices and finding possible relations between self-efficacy, interpersonal skills, what inspires them to choose a career, and their actual choices. The practical contribution of this research lies in understanding the…
Descriptors: High School Students, Career Choice, Correlation, Self Efficacy
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Yin, Michelle; Siwach, Garima; Belyakova, Yulia – American Educational Research Journal, 2022
Despite an increase in special education enrollment, a stark gap in high school completion between students with and without disabilities persists. This study examined the impact of Unified Champion Schools (UCS), a Special Olympics program designed to foster social inclusion through three components--Unified Sports, Inclusive Youth Leadership,…
Descriptors: Students with Disabilities, Graduation Rate, High School Students, Youth Programs
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Laris, B. A.; Barrett, Mia; Anderson, Pamela; Kesler, Kari; Gerber, Andrea; Baumler, Elizabeth; Coyle, Karin – Sex Education: Sexuality, Society and Learning, 2021
This paper explores the use of withdrawal as a harm reduction approach to adolescent pregnancy prevention and its association with condom use. Data come from a baseline survey of a randomised controlled trial to test the effectiveness of FLASH, a sexual health education curriculum. Study participants completed electronic self-report surveys in…
Descriptors: Sexuality, Health Behavior, High School Students, Student Attitudes
Aiken, Jason – ProQuest LLC, 2023
There are widespread concerns about disparities in educational attainment in the United States. Unfortunately African American, Hispanic, Native American, and low-income Broward County Public Schools high school students participate in College Bound Type Programs at lower rates than students of other races and ethnicities. Many of these students…
Descriptors: Minority Group Students, Low Income Students, Access to Education, Postsecondary Education
Val Lazarev; Adam Schellinger; Jenna Zacamy – Empirical Education Inc., 2023
This report leverages state educational agency data to explore the association between Alabama Science in Motion (ASIM) implementation and student outcomes. We conducted this study in Alabama to evaluate the potential of teacher implementation of ASIM lab activities to improve high school level student achievement in science. This study follows a…
Descriptors: Science Education, Science Achievement, Institutional Characteristics, Student Characteristics
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Gary R. Pike; Kirsten Robbins – Journal for STEM Education Research, 2019
Meeting the current demand for STEM graduates requires significantly increasing the number of students majoring in STEM fields. One program designed to increase the number of STEM majors is Project Lead The Way (PLTW). Using statewide data from Indiana, this research examined the effects of PLTW participation in high school on the likelihood of…
Descriptors: STEM Education, Majors (Students), Program Descriptions, High School Students
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Smith, M. Corinne; Gosky, Ross M.; Li, Jui-Teng – Journal of College Access, 2022
The purpose of this study was to examine the relationship between visits to college campuses by middle school and high school students and postsecondary enrollment rates, where campus visits are classified as both formal college visits and also informal campus visits. Specifically, Traditional Campus Visits and Educational Campus Field Trips are…
Descriptors: Correlation, School Visitation, Middle School Students, High School Students
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Masa, Rainier; Chowa, Gina; Sherraden, Michael – Youth & Society, 2020
The objective of this study was to examine the effect of a financial inclusion project on youth's sexual risk behaviors and victimization. The project occurred in Ghana, where 100 schools were assigned to either a school-based savings program (SBSP), a marketing campaign, or a control group. Pretest and posttest data were collected in 2011 and…
Descriptors: Money Management, Sexuality, Health Behavior, At Risk Persons
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Casado-Robles, Carolina; Mayorga-Vega, Daniel; Guijarro-Romero, Santiago; Viciana, Jesús – Journal of Educational Research, 2020
The aim of the study was to compare the effect of a Sport Education-based irregular teaching unit on the high-school students' physical activity (PA) during school recess. A sample of 91 adolescents (45 girls) aged 13-16 years old met the exclusion criteria. The six classes were cluster-randomly assigned to the Irregular Sport Education group…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Athletics, Physical Activity Level, Recess Breaks
Heather Boyle – ProQuest LLC, 2020
This article presents the findings of a quantitative study examining Lexile scores, and English and Math Milestone scores of students who participated in school choice at a southeastern high school as compared to students at the same high school who continuously followed the feeder pattern. The purpose of this study was to determine if the…
Descriptors: School Choice, High School Students, Intervention, Tests
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Robert, Alyssa J.; Parker, Forrest R., III – Journal of Research in Education, 2020
An integrated program to teach self-advocacy techniques to students with disabilities was implemented in one Louisiana School District. Students (171) with mild disabilities were exposed to explicit instruction in self-advocacy skills. Student's GPAs were compared from one semester in the 2018-2019 school year and one semester in the 2019-2020…
Descriptors: Self Advocacy, Students with Disabilities, Mild Disabilities, Correlation
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