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Download full textMurano, Dana; Daley, Nola; Casillas, Alex – ACT, Inc., 2021
This issue brief is part of a five-part series that reports findings from research conducted by ACT in collaboration with Region One Education Service Center. This brief focuses on establishing conditions for social and emotional learning (SEL) implementation and includes results from a survey administered to educators who attended a professional…
Descriptors: Social Emotional Learning, Program Implementation, Hispanic American Students, Grade 8
Peer reviewedSabah, Saed; Akour, Mutasem M.; Hammouri, Hind – Journal of Turkish Science Education, 2023
This study developed and validated the Science Practice Scale (SPS) and investigated the implementation of scientific teaching practices by Grade 8 science teachers in Jordan. The responses of 235 8th grade science teachers who participated in the Trends in International Mathematics and Science Study [TIMSS] of 2019 were analysed using the Rasch…
Descriptors: Achievement Tests, Foreign Countries, International Assessment, Science Achievement
Chase, Paul A.; Schechter, Rachel L.; Li, Katherine – Online Submission, 2023
Responsive coaching at engage2learn is an innovative, and with this and previous reports--an evidence-based solution. This 2021-2022 study compellingly validates the efficacy of the engage2learn program through an exploration of NWEA MAP® Growth™ and STAAR test scores for Math and Science, Grades 6-8. LXD Research, an independent research firm,…
Descriptors: Mathematics Achievement, Science Achievement, Grade 6, Grade 7
Direct linkJeanette Louise Randall – ProQuest LLC, 2024
Discovery City Schools, located in the southern United States, served approximately 8,168 public school students in 15 individual schools during the 2022--2023 school year. After a districtwide consolidation in 2019, Triumph Middle School (TMS) was established as the only middle school in the district and served 1,121 seventh- and eighth-grade…
Descriptors: Trauma Informed Approach, Middle School Students, Grade 7, Grade 8
Margolin, Jonathan; Pan, Jingtong; Friedman, Lawrence B.; Guyot, Katherine; Brown, Leah; Roach, Amy – American Institutes for Research, 2022
Playground Physics is a supplemental middle school science program designed to support embodied learning by enabling students to connect physics concepts to their own playful activities. The purpose of this study was to examine a model for scaling up the Playground Physics program and to determine the program's impact on middle school students'…
Descriptors: Middle Schools, Science Instruction, Learning Processes, Physics
What Works Clearinghouse, 2021
"Literacy Design Collaborative" aims to help teachers improve their effectiveness in the classroom with a focus on supporting their literacy instruction. "Literacy Design Collaborative" provides professional development, coaching, and resources to support teachers to work collaboratively in their schools to create and use…
Descriptors: Teacher Effectiveness, Literacy Education, Academic Achievement, Program Effectiveness
What Works Clearinghouse, 2021
"Literacy Design Collaborative" aims to help teachers improve their effectiveness in the classroom with a focus on supporting their literacy instruction. "Literacy Design Collaborative" provides professional development, coaching, and resources to support teachers to work collaboratively in their schools to create and use…
Descriptors: Teacher Effectiveness, Literacy Education, Academic Achievement, Program Effectiveness
Rozich, Elizabeth S. – Schools: Studies in Education, 2016
This autoethnographic narrative explores the challenges and successes of employing critical pedagogy in an eighth-grade history classroom. Using the threads of teacher, scholar, and individual, the author shares the intellectual and emotional progression through hope, frustration, humility, and growth that this endeavor demanded. Further, this…
Descriptors: Autobiographies, Ethnography, Educational Practices, History Instruction
Nicole Arshan; Cj Park; Allison Milby; Rebecca Goetz – Society for Research on Educational Effectiveness, 2021
Background: College- and career-ready standards cite the "special place of argument writing" in preparing students to be college students, professionals, and engaged citizens in an information-rich society (NGA, 2010). To support these critical skills, the National Writing Project (NWP) developed the College, Career, and Community…
Descriptors: Writing Instruction, Persuasive Discourse, Program Effectiveness, Secondary School Students
Terrazas-Arellanes, Fatima E.; Strycker, Lisa A.; Walden, Emily D. – Journal of Research on Technology in Education, 2019
High-quality professional development is needed to prepare teachers to help students learn how to conduct online academic research and meet Common Core State Standards for English Language Arts. This study created and evaluated a Web-based professional development program with five instructional modules designed to prepare middle-school teachers…
Descriptors: Web Based Instruction, Faculty Development, Models, Teaching Methods
Brasseur-Hock, Irma F.; Miller, Whitney; Washburn, Jocelyn; Chroust, Alyson J.; Hock, Michael F. – International Journal for Research in Learning Disabilities, 2021
We present results of an evaluation of the first year of a multi-year comprehensive middle school reading program. Four public middle schools in rural Virginia with large populations of students with limited reading proficiency participated in a study to determine the reading program's impact. We evaluated 235 students with low reading achievement…
Descriptors: Program Evaluation, Middle School Students, Reading Programs, Reading Instruction
What Works Clearinghouse, 2021
Inquiry-based science interventions aim to improve students' science proficiency by helping them understand scientific processes. In these interventions, students conduct hands-on investigations of science concepts and everyday phenomena, construct explanations for what they observe, consider alternative explanations, and communicate and justify…
Descriptors: Science Instruction, Intervention, Teaching Methods, Inquiry
Horowitz, Eric; Sorensen, Nicholas; Yoder, Nicholas; Oyserman, Daphna – Grantee Submission, 2018
Classroom activities aimed at changing students' identity-based motivation (IBM) improve student outcomes by helping students experience school as the path to their adult future identities and their difficulties along the way as signals of the importance of schoolwork. One way to scale these effects would be to have teachers deliver IBM…
Descriptors: Student Motivation, Identification (Psychology), Learning Activities, Intervention
Özaydin, Latife; Kayhan, Nilay; Toker, Merih; Karahan, Sevim – International Journal of Psycho-Educational Sciences, 2017
Various studies conducted into mainstreaming implementations in preschool and primary school but implementations in light of data are rare in the secondary schools. To provide valuable insights to this gap in the literature, the present study was conducted to identify the requirements in resource room implementations in a secondary school and…
Descriptors: Resource Room Programs, Program Implementation, On the Job Training, Faculty Development
What Works Clearinghouse, 2021
Inquiry-based science interventions aim to improve students' science proficiency by helping them understand scientific processes. In these interventions, students conduct hands-on investigations of science concepts and everyday phenomena, construct explanations for what they observe, consider alternative explanations, and communicate and justify…
Descriptors: Inquiry, Science Instruction, Science Process Skills, Teaching Methods
