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Luke Sebastian Whitehouse – ProQuest LLC, 2023
The purpose of this qualitative case study was to describe the strategies teachers chose to successfully differentiate for high achieving upper elementary mathematics students. The context of the study was mixed ability classes in international schools. The study used Vygotsky's sociocultural learning theory as a theoretical framework to…
Descriptors: High Achievement, Elementary School Students, Mathematics Education, Teaching Methods
Editorial Projects in Education, 2024
Addressing academic integrity in the age of AI is essential to ensure honesty and student success. This Spotlight will help you learn about how educators nationwide are approaching AI in teaching and learning; review data investigating how many students are actually using AI to cheat; examine strategies teachers are using to fight AI cheating;…
Descriptors: Integrity, Artificial Intelligence, Teaching Methods, Computer Software
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Amy Walter; Florence Martin; Kendall Hageman-Mays; Blake Wiggs – Journal of Online Learning Research, 2024
With the rising demand for virtual learning, districts are establishing virtual schools to offer more flexible education. This study investigates K-12 virtual learner characteristics, examines trends and issues in virtual academies, and outlines opportunities and challenges faced by stakeholders in a southeastern U.S. state. The study used a…
Descriptors: Educational Trends, Elementary Secondary Education, Student Characteristics, Time Factors (Learning)
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Hegazy, Hind; Ellerton, Peter; Campos-Remon, Hannah; Zaphir, Luke; Mazzola, Claudio; Brown, Deborah – Educational Action Research, 2023
This paper describes how an action research process, centred around a professional development program for teaching critical thinking, enabled teachers in a specialised program for high-achieving Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander students (Solid Pathways) to develop their pedagogical practices to support student cognition. It argues that a…
Descriptors: Critical Thinking, Action Research, Teaching Methods, Indigenous Populations
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Nikula, Tarja; Skinnari, Kristiina; Mård-Miettinen, Karita – International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism, 2023
This article focuses on how Finnish CLIL teachers and students orient to and experience diversity in CLIL. The data consist of teacher and student interviews that were analysed using qualitative content analysis to identify recurrent themes with regard to diversity. The findings indicate that the theme of equality in the sense of 'the same for…
Descriptors: Content and Language Integrated Learning, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Student Attitudes
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Hattan, Courtney – Reading Research Quarterly, 2019
Students' ability to comprehend what they read is greatly influenced by what they already know and have experienced. For this reason, teachers work to activate students' background knowledge prior to reading. Regrettably, the pedagogical techniques available to teachers for activating students' knowledge are quite limited. Further, those available…
Descriptors: Rural Schools, Background, Student Characteristics, Knowledge Level
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Eleazer, Courtney D.; Scopa Kelso, Rebecca – Anatomical Sciences Education, 2018
Many pre-health professional programs require completion of an undergraduate anatomy course with a laboratory component, yet grades in these courses are often low. Many students perceive anatomy as a more challenging subject than other coursework, and the resulting anxiety surrounding this perception may be a significant contributor to poor…
Descriptors: Anatomy, Undergraduate Students, Study Habits, Science Laboratories
Pavešic, Barbara Japelj, Ed.; Koršnáková, Paulína, Ed.; Meinck, Sabine, Ed. – International Association for the Evaluation of Educational Achievement, 2022
This open access book brings together national experts from across the Dinaric region to rigorously review IEA's Trends in International Mathematics and Science Study (TIMSS) 2019 grade four data to develop a multidimensional and culturally sensitive perspective on their TIMSS 2019 primary-level results. The Dinaric region, named after the Dinaric…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Elementary Secondary Education, Science Achievement, International Assessment
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Cerna, Miguel A.; Pavliushchenko, Ksenia – Higher Education Studies, 2015
The present study estimates the global validity of existing constructs and serves as the basis for the development of the "Self-Reported Study Habits for International Students (SR-SHI)" used to identify at-risk students in international programs. One-year classroom observations, recollection of study habits though interviews with high…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Study Habits, Academic Achievement, Correlation
Zmood, Simone – Mathematics Education Research Group of Australasia, 2014
Recent research suggests some teachers may not have a wide range of teaching and learning strategies for their most proficient mathematics students, which could impact on these students' learning and ongoing improvement in performance. This paper outlines the different drivers of high achievement and explores the main curriculum differentiation…
Descriptors: Mathematics Instruction, Curriculum Development, Individualized Instruction, High Achievement
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Daher, Wajeeh; Anabousy, Ahlam – International Journal for Mathematics Teaching and Learning, 2015
The study of function transformations helps students understand the function concept which is a basic and main concept in mathematics, but this study is problematic to school students as well as college students, especially when transformations are performed on non-basic functions. The current research tried to facilitate grade 9 students'…
Descriptors: Middle School Students, Secondary School Mathematics, Student Attitudes, Grade 9
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Magen-Nagar, Noga – International Journal of Research in Education and Science, 2016
The purpose of the current study is to explore the effects of learning strategies on Mathematical Literacy (ML) of students in higher and lower achieving countries. To address this issue, the study utilizes PISA2002 data to conduct a multi-level analysis (HLM) of Hong Kong and Israel students. In PISA2002, Israel was rated 31st in Mathematics,…
Descriptors: Mathematics Skills, Learning Strategies, Mathematics Achievement, Cross Cultural Studies
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Wang, Jian – Journal of Curriculum Studies, 2013
The characteristics of Chinese learners and the factors influencing these characteristics become increasingly an important focus of research in the field of educational psychology, sociology and comparative education ever since the publication of the book, "The Chinese Learner: Cultural, Psychological and Contextual Influences," edited…
Descriptors: Asians, Educational Psychology, Student Characteristics, Cultural Context
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Dalland, Cecilie P.; Klette, Kirsti – Scandinavian Journal of Educational Research, 2014
This article explores how individualized teaching methods, such as the use of work plans, create new student strategies in Norwegian lower secondary classrooms. Work plans, which are frequently set up as instructional tools in Norwegian classrooms, outline different types of tasks and requirements that the students are supposed to do during a…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Secondary School Students, Learning Strategies, Classroom Techniques
Solak, Ekrem; Bayar, Adem – Online Submission, 2015
The purpose of this study was to investigate the current challenges in English language learning and teaching in Turkey from high and low achievers' perspective. The study was qualitative in nature and the participants of the study were twenty-two students attending at various departments of a state university in Turkey. In this study, the…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Language Teachers
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