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Dean, Michelle; Harwood, Robin; Kasari, Connie – Autism: The International Journal of Research and Practice, 2017
This study examined the extent to which gender-related social behaviors help girls with autism spectrum disorder to seemingly mask their symptoms. Using concurrent mixed methods, we examined the social behaviors of 96 elementary school children during recess (autism spectrum disorder = 24 girls and 24 boys, typically developing = 24 girls and 24…
Descriptors: Autism, Pervasive Developmental Disorders, Gender Differences, Social Behavior
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Hirshfield, Laura; Koretsky, Milo D. – Interdisciplinary Journal of Problem-based Learning, 2018
The use of problem-based learning (PBL) is gaining attention in the engineering classroom as a way to help students synthesize foundational knowledge and to better prepare students for practice. In this work, we study the discourse interactions between 27 student teams and two instructors in an engineering PBL environment to analyze how…
Descriptors: Problem Based Learning, Engineering Education, Gender Differences, Teacher Student Relationship
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Stewart, Shartriya; Coombs, Letoynia; Burston, Betty – Journal for Multicultural Education, 2016
Purpose: This paper examines the experiences and outcomes of male teacher candidates in the College of Education at a large university in California. Design/methodology/approach: This mixed methods study highlights findings from the preliminary analysis of student records as well as qualitative observation notes from their university supervisors…
Descriptors: Males, Gender Differences, Preservice Teachers, Mixed Methods Research
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Aruan, Susan A.; Okere, Mark I. O.; Wachanga, Samuel – Journal of Education and Practice, 2016
The purpose of this study was to establish the extent to which biology scientific creativity skills are influenced by the students' culture and gender in Turkana County. A mixed method research design was used. This involved cross sectional survey and ethnographic study. The target population comprised all form three students in sub county schools…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Biology, Creativity, Science Process Skills
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Duman, Serap Nur; Akbas, Oktay – Cogent Education, 2017
This study evaluated secondary school seventh-grade Turkish and mathematics programs using the Context-Input-Process-Product Evaluation Model based on student, teacher, and inspector views. The convergent parallel mixed method design was used in the study. Student values were identified using the scales for socio-level identification, traditional…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Secondary School Mathematics, Mathematics Instruction, Value Added Models
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Palmer, Douglas J.; Sadiq, Hissa M.; Lynch, Patricia; Parker, Dawn; Viruru, Radhika; Knight, Stephanie; Waxman, Hersh; Alford, Beverly; Brown, Danielle Bairrington; Rollins, Kayla; Stillisano, Jacqueline; Abu-Tineh, Abdullah M. Hamdan; Nasser, Ramzi; Allen, Nancy; Al-Binali, Hessa; Ellili, Maha; Al-Kateeb, Haithem; Al-Kubaisi, Huda – Journal of Educational Research, 2016
Qatar initiated a K-12 national educational reform in 2001. However, there is limited information on the instructional practices of the teachers in the reform schools. This project was an observational study of classrooms with a stratified random sample of the first six cohorts of reform schools. Specifically, 156 classrooms were observed in 29…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Private Schools, Educational Change, Educational Practices
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Hendricks, Karin S.; Smith, Tawnya D.; Legutki, Allen R. – Gender and Education, 2016
This study profiles gender differences in instrumental performance self-efficacy perceptions of high school students (N = 87) over the course of a three-day orchestra festival in which students competed against one another for rank-based seating and then rehearsed and performed as a group. Reported self-beliefs rose significantly for the sample…
Descriptors: Competition, Music Education, Self Efficacy, Beliefs
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Powell, Emma; Woodfield, Lorayne A.; Nevill, Alan A. M. – European Physical Education Review, 2016
The overall aim of this study was to assess the diversity of primary school children's physical activity (PA) during outdoor recess. The study was grounded in a mixed method approach, assisting in the identification of multifaceted predictors of children's PA, including insights to social behaviours during break time. Data were obtained from…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Primary Education, Elementary School Students, Children
Dohaney, Jacqueline; Brogt, Erik; Kennedy, Ben – Journal of Geoscience Education, 2015
Field note-taking skills are fundamental in the geosciences but are rarely explicitly taught. In a mixed-method study of an introductory geothermal field lesson, we characterize the content and perceptions of students' note-taking skills to derive the strategies that students use in the field. We collected several data sets: observations of the…
Descriptors: Science Education, Geology, Field Studies, Notetaking
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Thieman, Gayle Y.; Cevallos, Tatiana – International Journal of Information and Learning Technology, 2017
Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to expand the growing body of research on the educational impact of 1:1 mobile devices, investigating the iPad's potential to reduce the disparity of access to high-quality instructional technology and achievement for low income, racially, and linguistically diverse students. Design/methodology/approach: This…
Descriptors: Telecommunications, Handheld Devices, Educational Technology, Technology Uses in Education
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Okur-Berberoglu, Emel – International Electronic Journal of Environmental Education, 2015
Environmental attitude covers a person's behavioural aims, impacts, and believings which is acquired from environmental subjects or activities. It is also mentioned that environmental attitude can be used in order to predict environmental behaviour. The aim of this study is to analyse the efficiency of an ecopedagogy-based TUBITAK environmental…
Descriptors: Environmental Education, Teacher Attitudes, Ecology, Communities of Practice
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Wildschut, Zelda; Moodley, Trevor; Aronstam, Shelley – South African Journal of Childhood Education, 2016
Research has revealed that the academic performances of learners in South Africa are below the required level. The Western Cape Education Department (WCED) launched the literacy and numeracy strategy 2006-2016 in response to the low literacy and numeracy levels. In addition, the WCED introduced the Grade 1 baseline assessment in 2006, as part of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Grade 1, Student Evaluation, Barriers
Dickey, Millicent Whitener – ProQuest LLC, 2014
There are three purposes of this mixed methods phenomenological case study. First, the researcher attempted to determine if there is evidence that teachers in single-sex classes adjust the delivery of the academic content when compared to coeducational classes. Secondly, while trying to understand the phenomenon of learning in a single-sex…
Descriptors: Mixed Methods Research, Phenomenology, Case Studies, Single Sex Classes
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Ade-Ojo, Gordon O. – Bulgarian Comparative Education Society, 2012
This paper reports an aspect of a larger study on literacy practices, needs and perceptions of artisans in a part of the South West region of Nigeria. Using an ethnographic approach to research, it identified a variety of literacy practices, events and mediums, thus confirming the notion of literacy as social practice. The study employed a…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Literacy, Educational Needs, Ethnography
Gibson, Jakeisha Jamice – ProQuest LLC, 2017
This mixed-methods case study examined two out-of-school (OST) Science, Technology, Engineering and Math (STEM) programs at a science-oriented high school on students' Self-Efficacy. Because STEM is a key for future innovation and economic growth, Americans have been developing a variety of approaches to increase student interest in science within…
Descriptors: High School Students, Self Efficacy, Student Surveys, Mixed Methods Research
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