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Francis Erebholo – Journal of College Student Retention: Research, Theory & Practice, 2025
Many students across the country experienced a decline in academic performance due to COVID-19. As a result, college readiness measures have fallen short, especially in math. This lack of preparation frequently leads to additional teaching, wasting important class time by going over the prerequisite content again instead of using it to study new…
Descriptors: Intervention, Educational Improvement, Calculus, Mathematics Achievement
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Erik D. Hanson; Cheryl J. Wachenheim – NACTA Journal, 2022
Student performance in an introductory agricultural finance class was analyzed via a pre-test, post-test, and additional student information collected from 2018-2021. Regression analysis indicated that several common measures of academic performance and aptitude were linked to post-test scores. As is consistent with the literature, post-test score…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Agricultural Education, Agribusiness, Pretests Posttests
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Ünsal Özbek, Elif Bengi; Yetkiner, Alper – International Journal of Psychology and Educational Studies, 2021
The developments and changes that have accompanied the COVID-19 pandemic have affected the educational world and all sectors. Educational institutions around the world have implemented emergency and online educational practises to ensure continuity of education as opposed to the planned distance education activities that were implemented for…
Descriptors: Regression (Statistics), Classification, Instructional Effectiveness, Electronic Learning
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Coskun, Burçin; Karadag, Engin – Journal of Pedagogical Research, 2023
In this study, the effects of some student (e.g., gender, bullying, etc.) and school variables (e.g., emphasis on academic achievement, clarity of teaching, etc.) on the TIMSS 2015 science and mathematics achievement of eighth grade students in Türkiye were examined by controlling for the socioeconomic status of the students at the student and…
Descriptors: Student Characteristics, Institutional Characteristics, Science Achievement, Mathematics Achievement
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Lavonen, Jari; Ávalos, Beatrice; Upadyaya, Katja; Araneda, Sebastián; Juuti, Kalle; Cumsille, Patricio; Inkinen, Janna; Salmela-Aro, Katariina – International Journal of Science Education, 2021
This study examines how classroom activities, student gender and student personal interest in science studies and careers predict situational interest in physics learning. Teaching modules were designed based on the secondary physics curricula in Finland (Helsinki) and Chile (Santiago and Viña del Mar) emphasising students engagement in scientific…
Descriptors: High School Students, Student Interests, Learner Engagement, Adolescents
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Gökçe, Semirhan; Güner, Pinar; Bastug, Muhammet – Psychology in the Schools, 2023
The purpose of this study is to develop tests for monitoring the number sense skills of primary school students based on proficiency definitions and to compare their number sense skills according to gender, school type, and mother's educational level. The first stage addressed to test development in which anchor items were used for vertical…
Descriptors: Mathematics Tests, Mathematics Skills, Number Concepts, Elementary School Students
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Matzin, Ernie Sofinah; Mundia, Lawrence – Journal of Educational Issues, 2020
Mathematics is a subject that challenges many Brunei secondary school students. The Bar Method of instruction uses visual or pictorial representations to make mathematics easier to understand. The survey participants consisted of 127 randomly selected teachers (24 males and 103 females). Male teachers had significantly higher negative attitudes…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Teaching Methods, Instructional Effectiveness, Mathematics Instruction
Alvis, Alisa V. – ProQuest LLC, 2019
Students at all grade levels in the United States are experiencing significant difficulties in the area of written expression (Salahu-Din, Persky, & Miller, 2008; U.S. Department of Education, 2012). Although performance feedback is an effective evidence-based intervention for improving the writing fluency of elementary-aged students,…
Descriptors: Predictor Variables, Elementary School Students, Writing Skills, Writing Evaluation
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Williams, K. R.; Wasson, S. R.; Barrett, A.; Greenall, R. F.; Jones, S. R.; Bailey, E. G. – CBE - Life Sciences Education, 2021
Hardy-Weinberg (HW) equilibrium and its accompanying equations are widely taught in introductory biology courses, but high math anxiety and low math proficiency have been suggested as two barriers to student success. Population-level Punnett squares have been presented as a potential tool for HW equilibrium, but actual data from classrooms have…
Descriptors: Science Instruction, Scientific Concepts, Mathematics Anxiety, Mathematics Skills
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Durak, Hatice Yildiz; Guyer, Tolga – Gifted Education International, 2019
Since programming processes involve different thinking skills and different fields of knowledge, it is especially important for children to acquire 21st-century skills. Even though the programming education activities are being intensively applied, it can be said that there is a gap in quantitative researches supporting the effort to reveal the…
Descriptors: Computer Science Education, Programming, Programming Languages, Active Learning
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Altun, Hasan – International Education Studies, 2019
In this study, it is aimed to investigate the problem solving skills of primary education mathematics teacher candidates according to their learning styles. The students of Primary Education Mathematics Department students of the universities in TRNC constitute the general universe of the research and the students who study in Primary Education…
Descriptors: Problem Solving, Elementary School Teachers, Mathematics Teachers, Preservice Teachers
Luthar, Suniya S.; Pao, Lisa S.; Kumar, Nina L. – Society for Research in Child Development, 2021
This is a mixed-methods study of risk and resilience in a sample of over 14,000 students from 49 schools, assessed during the first 3 months of COVID-19 in the United States. Over a third of students were of color and almost a third received financial aid. Participation rates were typically 90-99%. Overall, rates of clinically significant…
Descriptors: Resilience (Psychology), Risk, COVID-19, Pandemics
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Aljaraideh, Yousef – Journal of Technology and Science Education, 2019
This study examined the male and female students' perceptions of flipped learning system, taking four private universities in the Northern Province in Jordan as the sample of study. Flipped classroom, as an innovative strategy used in higher education, suits the demands of students at a university level, developing their critical thinking and…
Descriptors: Student Attitudes, Blended Learning, Private Colleges, Foreign Countries
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Meyer, J. Patrick; Doromal, Justin B.; Wei, Xiaoxin; Zhu, Shi – Research in Higher Education, 2017
We developed a criterion-referenced student rating of instruction (SRI) to facilitate formative assessment of teaching. It involves four dimensions of teaching quality that are grounded in current instructional design principles: Organization and structure, Assessment and feedback, Personal interactions, and Academic rigor. Using item response…
Descriptors: Criterion Referenced Tests, Student Evaluation of Teacher Performance, Instructional Effectiveness, Course Evaluation
Kasay, Theresa M. – ProQuest LLC, 2018
The purpose of this quantitative study was to compare and evaluate two types of vocabulary interventions using grade 9 physics vocabulary terms using two lists of 10 words. A quasi-experimental crossover research design was used to compare the two interventions, presented during two separate sessions, 1) active, multimedia that includes the…
Descriptors: Vocabulary, Middle School Students, Physics, Intervention
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