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Oyserman, Daphna; Dawson, Andrew – Journal of Experimental Education, 2021
We build on identity-based motivation theory to integrate research on in-person and virtual learning environments so that we can articulate which features of virtual learning environments are likely to support or impede learning and identity exploration. Although students experience their identities as stable anchors for meaning-making and action,…
Descriptors: Transformative Learning, Learner Engagement, Self Concept, Learning Processes
Molly Falkowski – ProQuest LLC, 2021
The purpose of this study is to explore the relationship between the personality traits, learning environment and academic achievement of children in mixed-grade versus traditional classrooms. The conflicting existing research on the efficacy of mixed-grade classrooms suggests there may be characteristic differences between children that impact…
Descriptors: Elementary School Students, Conventional Instruction, Mixed Age Grouping, Parents
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M. Motseke; M. M. Maja; S. Meeran – South African Journal of Education, 2024
There is an urgent need to establish classroom libraries, especially in rural areas where learners hardly come across any reading material. The purpose of this study was to investigate how teachers set up classroom libraries in rural areas of the Mogodumo circuit in the Limpopo province of South Africa. The study was qualitative in nature. Fifteen…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Rural Schools, English (Second Language), Language Teachers
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Isabella Aura; Lobna Hassan; Juho Hamari – Educational Review, 2025
Educators are continuously exploring ways to enhance the academic potential of students while fostering a positive social atmosphere within classrooms. To meet these various curricular and interpersonal objectives, teachers are increasingly utilising educational storification in order to engage students and positively support their social…
Descriptors: Middle School Teachers, Middle School Students, Grade 7, Grade 8
Chloe Wasendorf – ProQuest LLC, 2022
Soft rot diseases cause crop losses all over the world. These losses can have large economic impacts and threaten international food security. Soft rot bacterial pathogens produce pectolytic enzymes that attack the pectin around plant cells resulting in smelly, wet, and mushy tissue maceration. Once symptoms are visible, the crop cannot be used or…
Descriptors: Scientific Concepts, Genetics, Plants (Botany), Microbiology
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Erin Keith; Carolyn Clarke; Allison Tucker – Canadian Journal of Action Research, 2024
Learning spaces in higher education are fraught with colonial barriers such as teacher-centered, front facing, stark, feelingless, and unwelcoming classrooms that diminish students' feelings of well-being. For pre-service teachers, these are also the types of classrooms that they often inherit as they foray into the profession. Three Bachelor of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Preservice Teachers, Preservice Teacher Education, Decolonization
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Özyildirim, Gülnar – Journal on Efficiency and Responsibility in Education and Science, 2021
Understanding the educational environment and effectively regulating it in consistent with educational objectives is an important factor in facilitating teaching and a crucial ability for the teachers. Investigating the perception of 12 classroom teachers at four elementary schools about their classroom environment, this study aims to reveal the…
Descriptors: Elementary School Teachers, Teacher Attitudes, Classroom Environment, Classroom Techniques
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Eickholt, Jesse; Johnson, Matthew R.; Seeling, Patrick – IEEE Transactions on Education, 2021
Contribution: Practical active learning stations (PALSs)-equipped classrooms function similar to prototypical active learning classrooms (ALCs). They support student collaboration and active learning pedagogies but at a fraction of the cost. Background: Active learning pedagogies and active learning technology are revitalizing STEM education and…
Descriptors: Active Learning, Classroom Environment, Computer Uses in Education, Classroom Design
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Collyer, Edward – Changing English: Studies in Culture and Education, 2021
Independent work and silent classrooms appear to be part of a wider discourse adopted by some schools across England and promoted as good practice by England's Education Secretary. This paper explores the effect of grouped and individual seating on the engagement of four boys in small group sessions teaching the English Language GCSE. Observations…
Descriptors: Classroom Techniques, Classroom Design, Classroom Environment, Males
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Nichols, T. Philip; Coleman, James Joshua – Reading Research Quarterly, 2021
The authors examined how the spaces and structures of literacy classrooms were organized, inhabited, and felt by teachers and students in a new project-based high school. The authors attended specifically to the political valence of these feelings: how educators characterized certain spatial arrangements (modular furniture and flexible seating)…
Descriptors: Literacy Education, Classroom Environment, High Schools, Classroom Design
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Holec, Victoria; Marynowski, Richelle – Teaching & Learning Inquiry, 2020
Active learning has experienced a recent resurgence with the advent of specialized active learning classrooms. While the fundamental theory behind active learning is anything but new, a relatively recent finding is that active learning pedagogies thrive in suitable active learning classrooms. To date, studies of active learning have focused on…
Descriptors: Learner Engagement, Active Learning, Self Evaluation (Individuals), Classroom Environment
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Beaudry, Sharon – Journal of Learning Spaces, 2022
Active learning has been a growing trend in education for decades based on its impact on student learning and success. As such, schools, colleges, and universities have invested resources into expanding this teaching approach, including active learning classrooms. But why have some schools been successful at rapidly growing their active learning…
Descriptors: Active Learning, Classroom Environment, Classroom Design, Higher Education
Kentucky Department of Education, 2022
Kentucky Administrative Regulation 705 KAR 4:231, general program standards for secondary career and technical education (CTE) programs, states that all CTE facilities shall be of adequate size to accommodate the work of their respective program(s). The material within this resource guide is designed to aid school administrators, teachers, boards…
Descriptors: Vocational Education, Educational Facilities, Educational Facilities Planning, Educational Facilities Design
Mazzer, Katherine – Online Submission, 2022
The purpose of this case study was to analyze the school culture of an arts-integrated, urban middle school in Richmond, Virginia. Four teacher interview questions and classroom and school observations were conducted based on two contributing factors in shaping school culture (visions and values and physical environment). The findings of this…
Descriptors: Middle Schools, Middle School Teachers, School Culture, Art Education
Adam P. Parisi – ProQuest LLC, 2022
Little has changed about the physical properties of public schooling in the United States since the industrial revolution--desks, rows, and teachers at the front of the room (McCoy, 2007). Foote (2019) has argued there is no better way to create a more modern learning space than to do a complete redesign. Given the dramatic redefinition of…
Descriptors: Public Schools, Educational Environment, Classroom Environment, Teacher Attitudes
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