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Chen, Li-Ming; Chang, Lennon Y. C.; Cheng, Ying-Yao – School Psychology International, 2016
This study examined the determinants of students' willingness to intervene in bullying incidents, as well as the process underlying students' defending behaviors. The participants were 24 students (12 defenders and 12 outsiders) recruited from six secondary schools in southern Taiwan. The study used semi-structured interviews to collect…
Descriptors: Bullying, Student Behavior, Student Role, Secondary School Students
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Yildirim, Isa; Akan, Durdagi; Yalçin, Sinan – International Education Studies, 2016
This study was conducted in the aim of revealing the misbehaviors of the teachers according to the perceptions of the students. In the study, semi-structured interview was done with 8th grade 45 students, 20 males and 25 females, from three secondary school determined through purposive sampling. The interviews were analyzed with content analysis,…
Descriptors: Teacher Behavior, Student Attitudes, Student Evaluation, Behavior Problems
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Sengupta, Pratim; Krinks, Kara D.; Clark, Douglas B. – Journal of the Learning Sciences, 2015
How does deep conceptual change occur when students play well-designed educational games? To answer this question, we present a case study in the form of a microgenetic analysis of a student's processes of knowledge construction as he played a conceptually-integrated digital game (SURGE Next) designed to support learning about Newtonian mechanics.…
Descriptors: Educational Games, Physics, Science Instruction, Technology Uses in Education
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Thomas, Angela Falter – Journal of Instructional Pedagogies, 2012
Two language arts teachers in a small, rural middle school set a goal of improving their reading instruction and ultimately their students' learning. The two teachers implemented Reading Workshop as their new methodology for teaching reading to all six of their 7th and 8th grade classes. Interviews and classroom observations, over the course of…
Descriptors: Language Arts, Rural Schools, Middle School Teachers, Teaching Methods
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Thomas, Shelley; Howell, Penny – Current Issues in Middle Level Education, 2012
This study documented curriculum decisions made by an eighth grade social studies teacher as he prepared students for their high-stakes test. When considering how to best meet students' needs, the teacher described tensions between the pressures of standards and testing and his commitment to cultural responsiveness. Perceptions about these…
Descriptors: Middle School Teachers, Grade 8, Social Studies, High Stakes Tests
Turgut, Guliz – Online Submission, 2012
One-to-one laptop programs, where each student has their own laptop to use in classroom, are becoming popular in schools especially in Australia and the United States. The purpose of the study was to contribute to the limited knowledge base explaining the implementation of laptop programs specifically with English language learners. Four ESL…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Second Language Learning, Laptop Computers, Case Studies