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Juliane Fleissner-Martin; Jürgen Paul; Franz X. Bogner – Research in Science Education, 2025
This study analyses the coherent integration of creativity into science education modules for eighth-grade students to enhance competence development. The learning modules' content covered a basic ecological unit about forests, applied as digital or analog lesson. By utilizing the creativity subscales 'Act' and 'Flow' its analysis resulted in a…
Descriptors: Creativity, Science Education, Middle School Students, Cognitive Development
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Gembo Tshering – Mathematics Teaching Research Journal, 2024
Algebra is critical in shaping future mathematics success and is integral to the K-12 curriculum. Despite its inclusion, a common challenge arises as students' progress to higher grades without a solid foundation, resulting in challenging learning experiences. This action research study focuses on the algebraic learning experience of a Grade 7…
Descriptors: Grade 7, Intervention, Algebra, Mathematics Instruction
Tammy Allen Delgado – ProQuest LLC, 2024
Intrinsic motivation can be more influential for student's long-term learning because it can give students the internal drive to learn and complete a task without an outside influence. This study used a qualitative exploratory case study method and design. The problem addressed by this research study was that 9th and 10th grade social studies…
Descriptors: High School Teachers, High School Students, Student Motivation, Teacher Student Relationship
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Valencia-Ortiz, Andrómeda I.; Padilla-López, Alfredo; González-Osornio, Guadalupe – Electronic Journal of Research in Educational Psychology, 2022
Introduction: The social context can influence the biological maturation process, favoring or damaging the functioning of the nervous system. The impact of the environment on the frontal lobe is of great relevance since the so-called Executive Functions (EF) are developed there. EFs are in charge of planning, anticipating, executing behavior and…
Descriptors: Student Experience, Executive Function, Teaching Methods, Intervention
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Shelli L. Casler-Failing; Leah C. Swann – Middle Grades Review, 2023
A qualitatively oriented mixed methods case study was conducted to investigate the effects of incorporating LEGO robotics into a 7th-grade mathematics curriculum. Using the lenses of Social Constructivist Theory and the Five Stages of Technology Integration, this research focused on the development of proportional reasoning skills. The data show…
Descriptors: Robotics, Logical Thinking, Elementary School Mathematics, Grade 7
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Kanyarat Cojorn; Kanyarat Sonsupap – International Journal of Education and Literacy Studies, 2024
Ample studies have confirmed that the concepts of Community of Practice and Lesson Study can effectively develop professional development, especially in the design of learning. This positive impact on learners is also evident. Therefore, this study aimed to examine the results that occurred with students who learned from teachers who used…
Descriptors: Communities of Practice, Teaching Methods, Elementary School Teachers, Elementary School Students
Elizabeth Pursell – ProQuest LLC, 2024
Cognitive development of eighth-grade students, as identified by Jean Piaget, occurs during a time when many of them are transitioning between concrete operations and formal operations where the ability to think in abstract concepts becomes possible. Because of this period of transition, many eighth-grade students find difficulty in demonstrating…
Descriptors: Mathematics Instruction, Units of Study, Teaching Methods, Comparative Analysis
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Xiang, Xi; Chen, Yaling; Fang, Yuan; Zhang, Qi – Journal of Geography, 2022
The recent round of curriculum reform in China has proposed the educational goal of developing key competencies. This study examined how key competencies are integrated into geography textbooks for middle schools through pre-designed activities. The results showed that the textbooks emphasized the regional awareness competency. The activities in…
Descriptors: Geography Instruction, Secondary School Students, Competency Based Education, Foreign Countries
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Ninnuan, Kanjana; Wongsaphan, Montree – Journal of Educational Issues, 2022
This study investigates the implementation of the learning management model based on cognitive development theory to enhance mathematical problem-solving ability for Prathomsuksa 6 students. The sample group assigned by cluster random sampling was thirty Prathomsuksa 6 students of Chumchon Yot Kaeng Songkhro School. The research instruments…
Descriptors: Learning Management Systems, Problem Solving, Achievement Tests, Mathematics Instruction
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Lyngfelt, Anna; Sporre, Karin; Lifmark, David; Lilja, Annika; Osbeck, Christina; Franck, Olof – Cambridge Journal of Education, 2023
The overarching aim is to explore what teachers perceive as the opportunities provided by using literature in ethics education in compulsory school. When being interviewed, in what ways do the teachers express views on the potential of fiction to encourage students to accept certain human conditions as imaginable, or to create motivation for…
Descriptors: Ethics, Fiction, Teaching Methods, Teacher Attitudes
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Statter, David; Armoni, Michal – ACM Transactions on Computing Education, 2020
Abstraction is one of the most fundamental ideas in computer science (CS), and as such, according to Bruner, it should be taught spirally, starting as early as possible and revisited at every level of education. However, teaching CS abstraction to novices is a very challenging task, and CS educational research has often demonstrated students'…
Descriptors: Middle School Students, Grade 7, Computer Science Education, Abstract Reasoning
DeCamp, Heather – ProQuest LLC, 2022
This qualitative case study aimed to evaluate instructional best practices in reading, particularly close reading components and strategies that can predict student success, specifically in middle school students in an inner-city setting. The implementation of close reading instructional strategies is said to impose a higher level of cognitive…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Best Practices, Teaching Methods, Reading Instruction
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Mula, Melinda; Hodnik, Tatjana – European Journal of Educational Research, 2020
This research study presents the PGBE model for teaching and learning percentages with students of Grade 7 when their cognitive development enables the conceptual understanding of percentages as proportional statements, and offers the possibility for more effective matching of them with fractions and decimal numbers. The abbreviation PGBE presents…
Descriptors: Mathematical Concepts, Knowledge Level, Teaching Methods, Instructional Effectiveness
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Putland, Jennifer; Hoeberechts, Maia; Pelz, Monika; Hudson, Lauren; Tolmie, Cody; Carrasquilla-Henao, Mauricio – Canadian Journal of Environmental Education, 2021
Formal climate education without consideration of the ocean is incomplete. The effectiveness of a new climate lesson for youth that includes the ocean-climate nexus was examined by delivering the lesson to nine classes situated in separate British Columbia, Canada public schools and assessing the students' understanding of basic climate concepts…
Descriptors: Oceanography, Climate, Environmental Education, Sustainable Development
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Bustami, Yakobus; Wahyuni, Florentina Rahayu Esti; Syafruddin, Didin; Marsela; Nur, Taslim D. – International Journal of Instruction, 2021
The research aimed to uncover the effect of JiRQA learning a model of based gender on students' achievement at the environmental pollution material. The method was quasi-experimental using of 2 x 2 factorial. The population was all students at junior high school from Ketungau Tengah, Indonesia. The samples were 120 students from two separate…
Descriptors: Gender Differences, Multiple Choice Tests, Junior High School Students, Foreign Countries
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