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Josh Leung-Gagné – AERA Open, 2023
Though schools do not track in Brazil, I find that racial classroom segregation in Brazil is on par with recent estimates from North Carolina high schools (Clotfelter et al., 2020). How does racial classroom segregation occur without tracking, and in a supposed "racial paradise," no less? Using national, student-level data spanning from…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Secondary Education, Grade 5, Grade 9
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Wommer, Fernanda Gabriela Bitencourt; Sepel, Lenira Maria Nunes; Loreto, Elgion Lucio Silva – Research in Science & Technological Education, 2023
Background: Gamification is the use of game design elements, such as rules of play, point scoring and competition, in a non-game context, in learning activities. We designed a game, based on the famous augmented reality game "Pokémon GO," called Insects GO in which players should capture images of real insects with their mobile phones.…
Descriptors: Gamification, Entomology, Middle School Students, Student Attitudes
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Vidigal, Claudia Bueno Rocha; Vidigal, Vinicius Gonçalves – Education Economics, 2022
This paper evaluates the impact of extension of the school day in the context of Brazil's "Mais Educação" Extended School Day Program. Using school level longitudinal data, we find that the program reduces the dropout rates of students in all grade levels, raises the enrollment of students in grades 6-9, but reduces the enrollment of…
Descriptors: Outcomes of Education, Foreign Countries, Extended School Day, Dropout Rate
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Comelli, Felipe Augusto de Mesquita; da Costa, Michel; Tavares, Elisabeth dos Santos – International Review of Research in Open and Distributed Learning, 2021
The COVID-19 pandemic has impacted society in different areas. In education, several reports show the deleterious effects of the disease on the physical and mental health of students, family members, and teachers around the world. Also, in Brazil, affect studies indicate the prevalence of anxiety, stress, and depression among students. The present…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, COVID-19, Pandemics, School Closing
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Garcez, Carolina Montanha; Vitor, Davi Henrique Curia; Bortoli, Mirela Marchiori; Vieira, Lucas Augusto; Prado, Danielle Goncalves De Oliveira; Ramires, Thiago Gentil – International Society for Technology, Education, and Science, 2020
The university aims to form professionals through transmission and dissemination of knowledge, therefore, the Extension, as a tool of the universities, has a major role contributing to improvements in the learning and teaching process. The Extension projects are extremely important for The Federal Technological University of Paraná (UTFPR), since…
Descriptors: Public Schools, Private Schools, Universities, Competition
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Bear, George G.; Holst, Bruna; Lisboa, Carolina; Chen, Dandan; Yang, Chunyan; Chen, Fang Fang – International Journal of School & Educational Psychology, 2016
This study presents evidence of the validity and reliability of scores for the newly developed Brazilian Portuguese version of the Delaware School Climate Survey-Student (Brazilian DSCS-S). The sample consisted of 378 students, grades 5 through 9, attending four private and three public schools in southern Brazil. Confirmatory factor analyses…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Test Validity, Test Reliability, Scores