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Christopher Velez – ProQuest LLC, 2023
School systems have the responsibility to promote student success and character education is one program used to help improve school climate. The purpose of this study was to investigate the relationship between the implementation of a school developed character education program and student perceptions of school climate in a city elementary…
Descriptors: Student Attitudes, School Culture, Program Implementation, Program Effectiveness
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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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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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Chiang, Evelyn S.; Byrd, Sandra P.; Molin, Ashley J. – Health Education & Behavior, 2011
Expectancy-value models of motivation have been applied to understanding children's choices in areas such as academics and sports. Here, an expectancy-value paradigm is applied to exercising (defined as engaging in physical activity). The notion of perceived cost is highlighted in particular. Two hundred twenty children in third, fourth, and fifth…
Descriptors: Physical Activities, Physical Activity Level, Exercise, Models
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Newman, Richard S. – Journal of Educational Psychology, 1990
Characteristics related to help-seeking (perceived competence, motivational orientation, attitudes and beliefs, and age) were examined for 177 children in grades 3, 5, and 7. By grade seven, positive and negative attitudes were influential. Developmental and individual difference factors are discussed in connection with help-seeking and academic…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Age Differences, Beliefs, Child Development