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Warachit Promket – International Education Studies, 2024
The Development Instructional Model Based on Steam Education by TP-SMART MODEL To Enhance Technological Innovation and Creativity Skills of Secondary student Mathayom 6, divided into 4 steps. Step 1: Study the current and expected conditions of student learning and innovation skills development. 2) Develop the model 3) Study the results of use 4)…
Descriptors: STEM Education, Art Education, Creativity, Secondary School Students
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Ceylan, Özge – Journal of Adventure Education and Outdoor Learning, 2022
With this study, the contribution of the waste management themed summer program, which includes enriched activities considering the learning needs of gifted students, has contributed to the students' environmental attitudes, creative thinking skills and critical thinking dispositions. A five-day program was applied to gifted (n = 29) fifth grade…
Descriptors: Sanitation, Critical Thinking, Creative Thinking, Grade 5
Wilkins, Julia R. – ProQuest LLC, 2019
This joint study in the elementary school social studies setting enacted the explicit intention of facilitating student understanding of social justice. The first study was conducted in a second grade classroom to assess how exploring historical neighborhoods in St. Louis impacted students' understandings of diversity. Student writings,…
Descriptors: Critical Thinking, Creative Thinking, Elementary School Students, Social Studies
Witwer, Chelsea D. – ProQuest LLC, 2019
This joint study in the elementary school social studies setting enacted the explicit intention of facilitating student understanding of social justice. The first study was conducted in a second grade classroom to assess how exploring historical neighborhoods in St. Louis impacted students' understandings of diversity. Student writings,…
Descriptors: Critical Thinking, Creative Thinking, Elementary School Students, Social Studies
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Hwang, Gwo-Jen; Chen, Mei-Rong Alice; Sung, Han-Yu; Lin, Meng-Hsuan – British Journal of Educational Technology, 2019
The capability of reading comprehension is one of the essential skills for learning different topics, and has been recognized as a challenging objective in the Chinese curriculum. In this study, a concept mapping-based summarization strategy was incorporated into flipped learning to improve students' reading comprehension. The participants of the…
Descriptors: Concept Mapping, Blended Learning, Reading Comprehension, Mandarin Chinese
Noel, Lesley-Ann – ProQuest LLC, 2018
The last two years of primary school in Trinidad and Tobago are marked by preparation for national standardized tests. The focus on preparing for these tests impacts teaching and learning strategies, as there is a shift to teacher centered classrooms and teaching strategies that depend on rote learning and memorization. This study explored how…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Elementary School Students, Rural Schools, Design
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Daher, Wajeeh; Tabaja-Kidan, Amal; Gierdien, Faaiz – Pythagoras, 2017
Educating students for higher-order thinking provides them with tools that turn them into more critical thinkers. This supports them in overcoming life problems that they encounter, as well as becoming an integral part of the society. This students' education is attended to by educational organisations that emphasise the positive consequences of…
Descriptors: Mathematics Instruction, Grade 6, Thinking Skills, Creativity
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English, Lyn D.; Mousoulides, Nicholas G. – Mathematics Teaching in the Middle School, 2015
Engineering-based modeling activities provide a rich source of meaningful situations that capitalize on and extend students' routine learning. By integrating such activities within existing curricula, students better appreciate how their school learning in mathematics and science applies to problems in the outside world. Furthermore, modeling…
Descriptors: STEM Education, Engineering Education, Creative Thinking, Critical Thinking
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Inan, Mehmet; Ozden, Bülent; Dervent, Fatih; Küçüktepe, Coskun – Journal of Education and Training Studies, 2016
The purpose of this study was to provide an overview of the games in the "I am Playing Games" (IPG) compilation booklet that was used in the Games and Physical Activity (GPA) curriculum. 257 games in IPG compilation booklet were coded whether they had elements that would enable development of common basic skills or not. Common basic…
Descriptors: Basic Skills, Games, Physical Activities, Play
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Al Masri, Amaal; Smadi, Mona; Aqel, Amal; Hamed, Wafaa' – Journal of Education and Practice, 2016
This study aimed at analyzing Action Pack English textbooks' texts based on the availability of life skills for 5th, 6th and 7th grades, and to determine the frequencies and percentages of the life skills present in each text. The sample of the study was English language textbooks for Action Pack series for the 5th, 6th, and 7th grades. The life…
Descriptors: Daily Living Skills, Grade 5, Grade 6, Grade 7
Moeller, Mary; Cutler, Kay; Fiedler, Dave; Weier, Lisa – Phi Delta Kappan, 2013
Implementation of Visual Thinking Strategies (VTS) into the Camelot Intermediate School curriculum in Brookings, South Dakota, has fostered the development of creative and critical thinking skills in 4th- and 5th-grade students. Making meaning together by observing carefully, deciphering patterns, speculating, clarifying, supporting opinions, and…
Descriptors: Critical Thinking, Creative Thinking, Grade 4, Grade 5
Scranton, Melissa Arnold – ProQuest LLC, 2013
The purpose of this study was to gain a better understanding of how students think in a technological environment. This was accomplished by exploring the differences in the thinking of students while they worked in a technological environment and comparing this to their work in a paper and pencil environment. The software program TinkerPlots:…
Descriptors: Middle School Students, Comparative Analysis, Computer Software, Data Analysis
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Hwang, Gwo-Jen; Kuo, Fan-Ray – Australasian Journal of Educational Technology, 2015
Web-based problem-solving, a compound ability of critical thinking, creative thinking, reasoning thinking and information-searching abilities, has been recognised as an important competence for elementary school students. Some researchers have reported the possible correlations between problem-solving competence and information searching ability;…
Descriptors: Problem Solving, Structural Equation Models, Critical Thinking, Creative Thinking