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Blaine E. Smith; Heidi B. Carlone; Hannah Ziegler; Yelena Janumyan; Zachary Conley; Jingyi Chen; Tessaly Jen – Journal of Science Education and Technology, 2025
A growing body of research suggests that digital multimodal composing can provide students multiple points of entry for making sense of local climate change issues and sharing their voices through digital activism. Building upon this scholarship, this study examined the processes of 32 small groups (n = 55) of 7th- and 8th-grade students as they…
Descriptors: Climate, Urban Areas, Forestry, Junior High School Students
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Rust, Julie – Teachers College Record, 2021
Background: Researchers interested in more playful literacy practices often abandon school-related contexts to instead follow young people to after-school settings, community spaces, social spaces, home environments, and online hangouts. However, play also makes itself visible, even (and sometimes especially) in more formalized learning spaces.…
Descriptors: Play, Intermode Differences, Learning Modalities, Grade 6
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Collins, Larianne – Journal of Geography, 2018
This study investigates whether spatial learning outcomes differ with respect to different instructional media. Spatial thinking skills were tested pre- and postlesson implementation via the spatial thinking ability test as eighth grade students participated in either paper-based or digital map-based instruction. Students' attitudes toward…
Descriptors: Spatial Ability, Thinking Skills, Electronic Learning, Cognitive Tests
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Koparan, Timur; Güven, Bülent – European Journal of Educational Research, 2014
This study investigates the effect of the project based learning approach on 8th grade students' attitude towards statistics. With this aim, an attitude scale towards statistics was developed. Quasi-experimental research model was used in this study. Following this model in the control group the traditional method was applied to teach statistics…
Descriptors: Grade 8, Student Attitudes, Active Learning, Student Projects
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Ulusoy, Kadir – Educational Research and Reviews, 2011
In this study, whether the multimedia in the history lesson affects the students' attitude towards this lesson or not has been studied. With this object, whether there is a difference among the point averages that students take from the preliminary test and whether there is a difference among the point averages that students take from the last…
Descriptors: Experimental Groups, Control Groups, Student Attitudes, Multimedia Instruction
Kaya, Osman Nafiz; Dogan, Alev; Gokcek, Nur; Kilic, Ziya; Kilic, Esma – Online Submission, 2007
The purpose of this study was to investigate the effects of multiple intelligences (MI) teaching approach on 8th Grade students' achievement in and attitudes toward science. This study used a pretest-posttest control group experimental design. While the experimental group (n=30) was taught a unit on acids and bases using MI teaching approach, the…
Descriptors: Experimental Groups, Control Groups, Multiple Intelligences, Student Attitudes