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Lederman, J. S.; Lederman, N. G.; Bartels, S.; Jimenez, J.; Acosta, K.; Akubo, M.; Aly, S.; de Andrade, M. A. B. S.; Atanasova, M.; Blanquet, E.; Blonder, R.; Brown, P.; Cardoso, R.; Castillo-Urueta, P.; Chaipidech, P.; Concannon, J.; Dogan, O. K.; El-Deghaidy, H.; Elzorkani, A.; Ferdous, T.; Fukuda, N.; Gaigher, E.; Galvis-Solano, L.; Gao, Q.; Guo, S.; Gwekwerere, Y.; Gyllenpalm, J.; Hamed Al-Lal, S.; Han-Tosunoglu, C.; Hattingh, A.; Holliday, G.; Huang, X.; Irez, S.; Jiménez, J.; Kay, G.; Koumara, A.; Kremer, K.; Kuo, P.-C.; Lavonen, J.; Leung, J. S. C.; Liao, Z.; Librea-Carden, M. R.; Lin, S. -F.; Liu, C.; Liu, E.; Liu, S. -Y.; Mamlok-Naaman, R.; Mcdonald, C. V.; Möller, A.; Morales, M.; Mulvey, B. K.; Neumann, I.; Neurohr, A.-L.; Pan, Y.; Panjaburee, P.; Penn, M.; Plakitsi, K.; Picholle, E.; Ramnarain, U.; Raykova, Z.; Rundgren, C.-J.; Salonen, S.; Santibáñez-Gómez, D.; Schwartz, R.; Sharma, R.; Srisawasdi, N.; Takiveikata, S.; Urueta-Ortiz, T.; Vitlarov, K.; Voitle, F.; Wishart, J. – International Journal of Science Education, 2021
Understandings of the nature of scientific inquiry (NOSI), as opposed to engaging students in inquiry learning experiences, are included in science education reform documents around the world. However, little is known about what students have learned about NOSI during their pre-college school years. The purpose of this large-scale follow-up…
Descriptors: High School Students, Scientific Principles, Science Instruction, Grade 12
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Tilfarlioglu, Filiz Yalçin – Journal of Language and Linguistic Studies, 2020
The question of how to teach and learn English has been the preoccupation of many scholars of English Language Teaching for more than a century. Since the emergence of grammar translation method, researchers, teachers, and academicians have been trying to find the best method for their learners. In other words, this process can be defined as a…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, English (Second Language), Teaching Methods
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Moro, Luciana; Mortimer, Eduardo F.; Tiberghien, Andrée – Classroom Discourse, 2020
The aim of this study is to better understand how teachers use various embodied semiotic modes -- speech, gestures, gaze, and proxemics -- when they present scientific content to the entire class. To analyse the multimodal practices of these teachers, we integrated the social semiotic theory of multimodality and the joint action theory in…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Classroom Communication, Teaching Methods, Nonverbal Communication
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Cross, Jennifer Riedl; Vaughn, Colin T.; Mammadov, Sakhavat; Cross, Tracy L.; Kim, Mihyeon; O'Reilly, Colm; Spielhagen, Frances R.; Pereira Da Costa, Maria; Hymer, Barry – Roeper Review, 2019
The phenomenon of social coping among students with gifts and talents (SWGT) is not well understood. In interviews with elementary-, middle-, and high-school aged SWGT (N = 90; 50% female) from the United States, United Kingdom, South Korea, Ireland, and France, the universality of awareness of visibility of their exceptional abilities, high…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Comparative Education, Cross Cultural Studies, Social Experience
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Barker, Megel R. – Journal of Research in International Education, 2022
The Middle Years Programme (MYP) is one of four programmes offered by the International Baccalaureate, together with the Diploma Programme, Career-related Programme and Primary Years Programme. This study investigated the difference in job satisfaction levels of MYP Coordinators based on the number of IB programmes delivered in the school. Schools…
Descriptors: Job Satisfaction, Advanced Placement Programs, Administrator Attitudes, Administrator Role
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Kidwell, Tabitha; Pentón Herrera, Luis Javier – Kappa Delta Pi Record, 2019
What do a rural elementary school in Indonesia and a suburban high school in Maryland have in common? The authors share vignettes and describe culturally sustaining practices in these contrasting teaching contexts.
Descriptors: Cross Cultural Studies, Rural Schools, Suburban Schools, Vignettes
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Chen, J.; Anderson, C. W. – Science Education International, 2015
Previous studies identified a learning progression on the concept of carbon cycling that was typically followed by American students when they progress from elementary to high school. This study examines the validity of this previously identified learning progression for a different group of learners--Chinese students. The results indicate that…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Cross Cultural Studies, Cultural Differences, Science Education
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Blown, E. J.; Bryce, T. G. K. – Science & Education, 2013
This article examines the main strands of thinking about gravity through the ages and the continuity of thought-experiments, from the early Greeks, through medieval times, to Galileo, Newton and Einstein. The key ideas are used to contextualise an empirical study of 247 children's ideas about falling objects carried out in China and New Zealand,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, World Views, Teaching Methods, Motion
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Liu, Junsheng; Li, Dan; Purwono, Urip; Chen, Xinyin; French, Doran C. – Merrill-Palmer Quarterly: Journal of Developmental Psychology, 2015
This study explored the extent to which loneliness of Indonesian and Chinese adolescents was predicted by their intimacy and conflict with friends and parents. The total sample included 1,833 thirteen- and fifteen-year-old adolescents recruited from urban schools. Boys reported more loneliness than girls, and Chinese boys reported more loneliness…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Psychological Patterns, Adolescents, Predictor Variables
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Clark, Douglas B.; D'Angelo, Cynthia M.; Schleigh, Sharon P. – Journal of the Learning Sciences, 2011
This study investigates the ongoing debate in the conceptual change literature between unitary and elemental perspectives on students' knowledge structure coherence. More specifically, the current study explores two potential explanations for the conflicting results reported by Ioannides and Vosniadou (2002)and diSessa, Gillespie, and Esterly…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Cognitive Structures, Physics, Coding
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Sinharay, Sandip; Feng, Ying; Saldivia, Luis; Powers, Donald E.; Ginuta, Anthony; Simpson, Annabelle; Weng, Vincent – ETS Research Report Series, 2008
The validity of TOEIC Bridge™ scores as a measure of English language skill was examined from the standpoint of a unified concept of test validity. In this study, more than 6,000 test takers in 3 Latin American countries (Chile, Colombia, and Ecuador) took 1 form of the TOEIC Bridge test, and their scores were compared to additional information…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Language Tests, Second Language Learning, Test Validity
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Park, Nansook; Huebner, E. Scott; Laughlin, James E.; Valois, Robert F.; Gilman, Rich – Social Indicators Research, 2004
The factorial invariance of the Multidimensional Students' Life Satisfaction Scale (MSLSS: Huebner, 1994) across two divergent cultures (collectivistic vs.individualistic) was investigated with 835 Korean and 822 US students in elementary, middle, and high schools. Psychometric properties of the Korean version of the MSLSS were acceptable. A…
Descriptors: Cross Cultural Studies, Children, Adolescents, Life Satisfaction
Tobias, Sigmund; Everson, Howard T. – College Entrance Examination Board, 2002
To date the authors have completed 23 studies of knowledge monitoring and its relationship to learning from instruction. Their earlier work, 12 studies in all, is summarized and reported elsewhere (see Tobias and Everson, 1996; Tobias and Everson, 2000). In this paper they continue this line of research and summarize the results of 11 studies that…
Descriptors: Metacognition, Knowledge Level, Learning, Academic Ability