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Lindsey W. Rowe; Jackie Ridley; Marie E. Borkowski; Sarah E. Jackson; Michiko Hikida – Action in Teacher Education, 2024
The term "engagement" is widely used in teacher education and professional development. There is, however, a lack of consensus about the meaning of this term: it is defined in numerous ways with various theoretical underpinnings. This article employs a postqualitative approach to explore conceptualizations of engagement and their…
Descriptors: Preservice Teachers, Literacy Education, Learner Engagement, Language Usage
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Damira Belessova; Almira Ibashova; Aziza Zhidebayeva; Guldana Shaimerdenova; Venera Nakhipova – Open Education Studies, 2024
This study aimed to investigate the impact of the Scratch programming environment on student engagement and academic performance in primary informatics education. The research was conducted over three academic years (2020-2023) in educational organizations (ADAN and Navoiy schools) involving 170 first and third-grade students. The Student…
Descriptors: Programming, Learner Engagement, Academic Achievement, Elementary School Students
Kimberly A. Cooper – ProQuest LLC, 2023
Beginning in the 1950s, learning to read was a major focus in elementary schools. Children typically began their reading journey with listening skills. Hearing sounds for letters, then words, come to life from the pages of a book were engaging to children. One way teachers engaged students in learning to read was to read aloud to them in their…
Descriptors: Grade 1, Grade 2, Kindergarten, Teacher Attitudes
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Kelle DeWine; Hannah Chai – Mid-Western Educational Researcher, 2024
Increasing engagement may enable struggling readers to catch up with their peers. This study examined the impact of using multisensory strategies with Elkonin boxes to teach decodable words to first grade students. The study found that student interest impacted engagement, particularly when it was a combination of auditory, tactile, and visual.…
Descriptors: Multisensory Learning, Word Frequency, Grade 1, Elementary School Students
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Lynsey A. Burke; Divya Jindal-Snape; Anne Douglas – International Journal of Early Years Education, 2024
There is a paucity of research that has effectively listened to children's voices on matters important to them and has asked them how they would like to be listened to. This study used a playful approach to listen to children's voices about play spaces in their primary school. The research questions were: How can a playful approach be used to…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Elementary School Curriculum, Elementary School Students, Student Attitudes
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Miles, Hannah; Ari, Fatih – TechTrends: Linking Research and Practice to Improve Learning, 2022
This action research aimed to evaluate the impact of personalized reading plans on first-grade students' reading engagement and comprehension. Personalized reading plans were created for each student based on their interests and reading abilities within an e-book library. Qualitative and quantitative data were gathered from 10 first-grade students…
Descriptors: Program Implementation, Reading Programs, Individualized Instruction, Electronic Books
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Lam, Wing Chung; King, Ronnel B.; Yeung, Susanna Siu-Sze; Zhoc, Ching Hsiang – Early Education and Development, 2023
Research Findings: Previous studies have found that a growth mind-set was associated with optimal learning and well-being outcomes. However, much of this research has been conducted among adolescents and young adults. Relatively little is known as to whether these associations also apply to young children. The present study aimed to examine…
Descriptors: World Views, Student Attitudes, Learner Engagement, Well Being
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Yulia Afanasyeva; Margarita Bratkova; Diana Galoyan; Svetlana Rzanova; Lucia Bombieri – Education and Information Technologies, 2024
The study aims to identify whether interactive touchscreen images affect children's well-being and motivation in the context of inclusive education. It involved 22 students of the inclusive school. The students were in their 1st grade. The average age of the schoolchildren was 7 years. The survey method was the tool that assessed the significance…
Descriptors: Technology Uses in Education, Handheld Devices, Interaction, Well Being
Camrin L. Vaux – ProQuest LLC, 2024
This phenomenological study investigated elementary teachers' perspectives on student engagement in competency-based education (CBE) classrooms in an upper Midwestern rural school district. The study addressed the limited research on CBE implementation in elementary settings by exploring teachers' lived experiences related to learner engagement.…
Descriptors: Elementary School Teachers, Kindergarten, Grade 1, Grade 2
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Debbie Sonu; Eve Herold – Social Studies and the Young Learner, 2023
The authors highlight two first-grade teachers who teach in New York City. Using a read-aloud, they explore differences between equity and equality and then engage children in a real-world scenario that engages concepts of fairness when allocating resources to disparate groups of people.
Descriptors: Elementary School Teachers, Grade 1, Reading Aloud to Others, Team Teaching
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Gum-Ryeong Park; Jinho Kim – School Psychology International, 2024
This study examines the relationship between parental involvement and academic achievement among adolescents and potential mechanisms underlying this relationship. Using data from six waves of the Korean Children and Youth Panel Survey, this study estimated fixed effects models to account for individual-level heterogeneity. Sobel mediation tests…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Parent Participation, Academic Achievement, Student Adjustment
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Thomas Roed Heiden; Helle Rørbech – Research in Drama Education, 2024
This article explores the potential for engaging 7 and 8-year-old school pupils in performative literature interpretation through process drama. Inspired by new materialism and affect theory, we focus on how literature interpretations come into being in dramatic fiction, and on how these becoming interpretations merge with the classroom. The study…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Young Children, Grade 1, Grade 2
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Romero-Ivanova, Christina – Higher Education Studies, 2022
This article discusses findings from the qualitative research study which was conducted at a K-12 parochial school in Midwestern city. The study was conducted to understand how first and second graders who were located in one particular educational setting, with reading levels that ranged from low to high in a split classroom, made meanings from…
Descriptors: Religious Schools, Grade 1, Grade 2, Reading Comprehension
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Erickson, Joy Dangora – Reading & Writing Quarterly, 2023
Although it is widely accepted that reading motivation erodes over the elementary years and school experiences shape motivation, few have examined young readers' motivation for their reading intervention programs. This two-year qualitative case study probed the motivation-related perceptions of four young children specific to their involvement in…
Descriptors: Reading Motivation, Reading Programs, Program Effectiveness, Kindergarten
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Kavitha Govender; Julie Shantone Rubbi Nunan – Curriculum and Teaching, 2023
Inclusive education (IE) was introduced in 2001 in South African schools. Still, its implementation in mainstream classrooms has not attained optimum potential. To highlight the shortcomings, this study explores factors preventing teachers from effectively implementing IE in a combined school. Qualitative data were collected through interviews,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Elementary School Teachers, Administrators, Inclusion
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