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Elmas, Ridvan; Pamuk, Savas; Saban, Yakup – International Journal of Contemporary Educational Research, 2021
This study examines how gifted primary school students define observation, whether they know the purposes of observation and how they manage to perform it. A qualitative study was designed to thoroughly examine the observation process of 16 gifted students and determine the factors affecting the process. The focus group meetings were analyzed with…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Elementary School Students, Academically Gifted, Observation
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Zhou, Shao-Na; Chen, Lu-Chang; Xu, Shao-Rui; Lu, Chu-Ting; Li, Qiu-ye; Li, De-An – Journal of Baltic Science Education, 2021
Most studies have concentrated in assessing students' overall attitudes towards science, mathematics, and engineering/technology or the attitude towards individual STEM domain. The present research aims to explore primary students' gender and grade differences of their STEM domain-specific attitudes including self-efficacy and expectancy-value…
Descriptors: Elementary School Students, STEM Education, Self Efficacy, Values
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Metzger, Shari R.; Sonnenschein, Susan; Galindo, Claudia – Journal of Educational Research, 2019
Integrating multiple theoretical frameworks, the authors examined rising first- to fourth-grade students' mathematics utility conceptions--their knowledge and beliefs about the usefulness of mathematics, home-based mathematics engagement, and grade-level differences in mathematics utility conceptions and home engagement. Most children viewed…
Descriptors: Elementary School Students, Student Attitudes, Value Judgment, Instructional Program Divisions
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Jaciw, Andrew P.; Hegseth, Whitney Michelle; Lin, Li; Toby, Megan; Newman, Denis; Ma, Boya; Zacamy, Jenna – Journal of Research on Educational Effectiveness, 2016
This study investigates, through a cluster randomized trial, the impact of "Math in Focus," a core mathematics program modeled after instructional approaches used in Singapore, on third- through fifth-grade students' achievement in mathematics. The program is currently being used in more than 400 school districts in the United States.…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Randomized Controlled Trials, Mathematics Instruction, Grade 3
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Kim, Min Kyeong; Cho, Mi Kyung – EURASIA Journal of Mathematics, Science & Technology Education, 2015
Students can learn subjects more meaningfully through integrated education, as it helps them to link school education with their real lives. There is a strong need to develop an alternative integration method to promote effective implementation of integrated education at a classroom level. The purpose of this study was to develop a model for…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Interdisciplinary Approach, Integrated Curriculum, Mathematics Instruction
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Gerena, Linda – Reading Matrix: An International Online Journal, 2010
The purpose of this study was to assess students' attitudes toward several aspects of biliteracy within the context of a dual immersion program. Attitudes toward perceived competencies in reading in two languages, along with the social and personal values of literacy in each language (English and Spanish), and the personal and social value of…
Descriptors: Student Attitudes, Immersion Programs, Social Values, Literacy