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Download full textAbdulkerim Arikan; Mustafa Onur Kan – Science Insights Education Frontiers, 2023
Communication is vital for children's development, especially in differentiating rural and urban speech skills. The aim of this study is to investigate the speech skills of children living in rural and urban areas. The speech skills of 72 students attending the 8th grade in rural and urban areas of Iskenderun in the 2020-2021 academic year were…
Descriptors: Speech Skills, Rural Areas, Urban Areas, Communication (Thought Transfer)
Direct linkAntonio R. Davis – ProQuest LLC, 2022
Research has shown that mentoring is a productive way to address multiple needs in education and help children maximize their potential while bridging racial and generational lines (Frels et al., 2013; LaVenia & Burgoon, 2019; Liao & Sanchez, 2019; Spencer et al., 2020; Spencer, Gowdy et al., 2019). This research aimed to identify the…
Descriptors: Mentors, Interpersonal Relationship, Adults, Elementary School Students
Andrew J. Koonce – Education and Urban Society, 2025
In the midst of the pandemic, this school district made a significant investment with recovery dollars to expand enrichment opportunities in art, music, and physical education for students in their K-8 schools. The hypothesis was increasing the quality and quantity of these opportunities, the school district would increase student engagement, lead…
Descriptors: COVID-19, Pandemics, Elementary Schools, Middle Schools
Jiawen Wu; Dajung Oh; Daniel C. Hyde; Eva M. Pomerantz – Developmental Psychology, 2024
Parents are considered a major resource in children's numeracy development. The relative role of cognitive and motivational parenting practices, however, is unclear given that the two types of practices have largely been studied in isolation. The current study simultaneously estimated the contributions of several cognitive and motivational…
Descriptors: Numeracy, Elementary School Students, Learner Engagement, Parent Role
Chuwei Kong; Jinli Zhao – American Biology Teacher, 2024
Out-of-school science education is important for students' emotional outcomes, such as their interest in science. Not all students, however, have access to real outdoor environments for hands-on learning. To address this issue, live streaming technology allows for real-time interaction and video-based instruction, which can enhance students'…
Descriptors: Educational Technology, Video Technology, Synchronous Communication, Plants (Botany)
Elizabeth Braga – Australian and International Journal of Rural Education, 2024
This article addresses the issue of the production of space in rural and urban territories and the dialectical relation with agency and environmental activism. The data came from a collective ethnographic action research conducted at the Unified Educational Centre Uirapuru and its surroundings in the periphery of São Paulo in Brazil. In this…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Conservation (Concept), Activism, Rural Areas
Lara, Juliana Siqueira de; Castro, Lucia Rabello de – Global Studies of Childhood, 2023
This article discusses children's responsibility in care practices from a relational perspective. The aim is to understand how responsible action takes place and is experienced in the lives of children who reside in a community in the city of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. We interrogate the universalist sense of the notion of responsibility regarded as…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Child Responsibility, Citizenship, Caring
Frantz, Jillian Jane – ProQuest LLC, 2023
This study aimed to identify the perceptions of differentiated mathematics instruction among educators in an inner-city tutoring program. The researcher conducted this study in a private tutoring program that works with a Title 1, struggling school in a large metropolitan city. Qualitative research methods were applied to identify perceptions…
Descriptors: Individualized Instruction, Mathematics Instruction, Elementary School Teachers, Tutorial Programs
Shirin Hine – Education 3-13, 2024
This paper examines Forest School's potential to support gender equality among primary school-aged children. Using a rights-based perspective, an observational study - including children's drawings - explored children's constructions of gender in Forest School and classroom sessions. The study found that although children generally appeared…
Descriptors: Elementary School Students, Gender Differences, Environmental Education, Outdoor Education
Sara Jones – Urban Education, 2024
This article addresses tensions between how researchers have conceptualized and operationalized adolescent reading motivation and how a group of Black girl readers perceive and enact reading motivation. Through a grounded theory approach, this qualitative study offers an initial exploration into mapping a race-reimaged reading motivation construct…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Females, Blacks, Race
Deborah K. Reed – Reading & Writing Quarterly, 2024
This evaluation study explored a two-year literacy reform effort in a school district with 10 of its 13 elementary schools in the improvement process. Schools were placed in three groups. Group 1 (four schools, 80 teachers) implemented new instructional practices in Year 1 and then added a new curriculum. Group 2 (four schools, 102 teachers)…
Descriptors: Elementary Education, Reading Fluency, Intervention, Literacy Education
Courtney B. Dunn; Albert D. Farrell – Journal of Early Adolescence, 2025
Polysubstance use is related to elevated risk for adverse outcomes but remains understudied among early adolescents. This study focused on a cross-sectional (N = 1568) primarily Black (79%) sample of eighth grade students living in urban communities (Mean age = 13.8, SD = 0.68) to identify subgroups based on adolescents' reports of lifetime and…
Descriptors: Substance Abuse, Early Adolescents, Urban Areas, African Americans
Okechukwu, Franca O.; Mefoh, Philip C.; Nubia, Uju I.; Nwauzoije, Ezinne J.; Umennuihe, Chidiogo L.; Nwobi, Chibundo A.; Ogba, Kalu T.; Chukweze, Moses E.; Aliche, Joseph C.; Ogbonnaya, Ezeda K.; Okoli, Dorathy N.; Onyekachi, Clara C.; Abang, Stephen; Epistle, Esther; Nnorodi, Chioma; Obi, Chidera V. – South African Journal of Childhood Education, 2023
Background: Dyslexia is a learning disability that affects children of school-going age and exists in all cultures and backgrounds. Dyslexic children are deficient in phonological awareness, which makes the children to fail to attain the skills of reading, writing and spelling commensurate with their intellectual abilities. Inadequate knowledge…
Descriptors: Dyslexia, Test Construction, Test Validity, Questionnaires
Roscioli, Kate; Suh, Jennifer – Mathematics Teacher: Learning and Teaching PK-12, 2023
Learn how to engage students in geometry concepts through a real-world task that leverages GeoGebra to provide students with generalization and authorship opportunities. This article shares the story of a geometry task that asked students to choose a city that would best work for their new trucking company. Throughout the task, students noticed…
Descriptors: Geometry, Geometric Concepts, Mathematics Instruction, Relevance (Education)
Lora G. Reavis – ProQuest LLC, 2023
This qualitative study explores the factors that motivate elementary teachers to remain in the classroom in a micropolitan area school district as filtered through the theoretical framework of Maslow's hierarchy of needs. The findings suggest, teachers working to satisfy safety needs are less likely to reach satisfaction in the areas of esteem and…
Descriptors: Elementary School Teachers, Teacher Persistence, Teacher Motivation, Urban Areas
