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Stephanie A. Tammen; Karina Meiri; Russel Faux; Berri Jacque – Journal of STEM Outreach, 2019
Objective: To determine the efficacy of a high school biology curriculum focused on promoting nutrition literacy skills. Design: High school students participated in a six-week biology curriculum focused on the three subdomains of nutrition literacy: functional use of factual knowledge (FNL); interactive skills in seeking out information (INL);…
Descriptors: High School Students, Grade 11, Grade 12, Biology
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Shongwe, Benjamin – Journal of Urban Mathematics Education, 2022
The development of urban students' mathematical proving ability is a goal of several curricula frameworks, including some located in the southern hemisphere. However, in achieving this goal, most curriculum frameworks do so from a Western worldview, which is characterized by competition and the role of the individual. The purpose of this study was…
Descriptors: Disadvantaged, Grade 11, High School Students, Mathematics Instruction
Goff, Brenton – ProQuest LLC, 2018
Although most of the writing in high school English Language Arts (ELA) classrooms is about literature and although there have been incessant calls for changing the practices of teaching and learning literature, only meager amounts of research have been conducted in these interrelated domains of the field. Accordingly, this dissertation seeks to…
Descriptors: Educational Change, English, Language Arts, Teaching Methods
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Kunnath, Joshua P.; Jackson, Arika – Journal of Media Literacy Education, 2019
As young people today are flooded with information from a multitude of sources, they must be prepared to perceive the potentially oppressive and nefarious nature of many texts. Critical literacy is a theory and strategy that allows young people, along with people of all ages, to achieve just this; however, teachers often experience difficulties…
Descriptors: Social Media, Critical Literacy, Consciousness Raising, Grade 11
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Harris, Typhani – Journal of Dance Education, 2013
Content Literacy, 21st Century Skills, and Common Core Standards are quickly becoming the buzz of current public education initiatives. As these new policies dictate educational reform, public schools are hustling to find meaning, definition, and accountability for these future expectations. Content literacy goes beyond the ability to read and…
Descriptors: Art Education, Art Criticism, Secondary School Students, Dance Education
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Ford, Michael J. – Cognition and Instruction, 2012
This article identifies aspects of argumentation in scientific practice that are key for scientific sense-making and articulates how engagement in these aspects happens both inter-mentally (between people) and intra-mentally (an individual's reasoning). Institutionally, peer review exerts critique on new knowledge claims in science and is…
Descriptors: Persuasive Discourse, Logical Thinking, Criticism, Physics
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Avila, JuliAnna – English Journal, 2012
In 2004, the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) concluded that "literature reading is fading as a meaningful activity, especially among younger people." How can educators continue to teach students about the power of literary response when the priority is for them to achieve proficiency on standardized tests, whose scores can only be narrowly…
Descriptors: Standardized Tests, Language Arts, Grade 11, English Instruction
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Levin-Zamir, Diane; Lemish, Dafna; Gofin, Rosa – Health Education Research, 2011
Increasing media use among adolescents and its significant influence on health behavior warrants in-depth understanding of their response to media content. This study developed the concept and tested a model of Media Health Literacy (MHL), examined its association with personal/socio-demographic determinants and reported sources of health…
Descriptors: Health Promotion, Health Behavior, Criticism, Adolescents
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Besson, Ugo; Borghi, Lidia; De Ambrosis, Anna; Mascheretti, Paolo – International Journal of Science Education, 2010
We have developed a teaching-learning sequence (TLS) on friction based on a preliminary study involving three dimensions: an analysis of didactic research on the topic, an overview of usual approaches, and a critical analysis of the subject, considered also in its historical development. We found that mostly the usual presentations do not take…
Descriptors: Scientific Research, Criticism, Motivation, Teaching Methods
Thorsen, Mark J. – ProQuest LLC, 2010
This study describes the experiences of suburban area high school 10th, 11th, and 12th grade art students immersed in a cross-curricular study of the Holocaust and genocide. Three participant-educators, art teachers, and I, a history teacher, designed a two week curricular unit which was implemented in January, 2010, to increase…
Descriptors: Educational Strategies, Death, Art Education, Art Teachers
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Eva-Wood, Amy L. – Journal of Adolescent & Adult Literacy, 2008
Assuming that readers' emotional responses can enhance readers' metacognitive experiences and inform literary analysis, this study of 11th-grade poetry readers features instruction that models both cognitive and affective reading processes. The author: (1) Presents a case for more explicit attention to emotion in language arts classrooms; (2)…
Descriptors: Reading Strategies, Literary Criticism, Metacognition, Reading Processes
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West, Kathleen C. – Journal of Adolescent & Adult Literacy, 2008
Students engaged in literary response on weblogs they wrote and maintained for an 11th-grade English class. Three focal students, all members of a "regular" American Literature class in a school that is highly invested in The College Board's Advanced Placement program, forge hybrid social languages from the discourse of formal literary analysis…
Descriptors: Web Sites, Electronic Publishing, Advanced Placement, School Culture
Charles, Jim – Peter Lang New York, 2007
This book is an introduction to the literature and art of American writer N. Scott Momaday, winner of the 1969 Pulitzer Prize and member of the Kiowa American Indian Tribe. The book describes the impact of Momaday's family, Kiowa heritage, Pueblo cultural experiences, and academic preparation on his worldview, poetry, novels, essays, children's…
Descriptors: American Indians, Authors, Artists, American Indian Literature
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Batsche, George M.; Kavale, Kenneth A.; Kovaleski, Joseph F. – Assessment for Effective Intervention, 2006
The provision for allowing local education agencies to use an assessment of a student's response to intervention (RTI) in lieu of a consideration of an ability--achievement discrepancy has been a controversial aspect of the 2004 Individuals with Disabilities Education Improvement Act. To address issues that have arisen about RTI, a series of…
Descriptors: Intervention, Disabilities, School Districts, Student Evaluation
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Colman, Alison – Studies in Art Education: A Journal of Issues and Research in Art Education, 2004
This exploratory case study investigates pedagogical strategies meant to encourage secondary level students to think critically about their perceptions and use of the Internet. This process included guiding them in analyzing works of Internet art and introducing them to web authoring in order to create works of art that could be viewed on a web…
Descriptors: Internet, Art, Art Education, Secondary School Students
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