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Direct linkRyan Summers – Research in Science Education, 2024
Science teachers crave instructional materials and an increasing number of them are going to online educational marketplaces to purchase them. This study reports on a content analysis of highly rated products marketed for middle level science (grades 6, 7, and/or 8) on TeachersPayTeachers.com (TpT), one of the most prominent online educational…
Descriptors: Instructional Materials, Instructional Material Evaluation, Science Teachers, Web Sites
Erline Germain – ProQuest LLC, 2024
The purpose of this qualitative descriptive study was to explore the perceived ease of use and usefulness of an assistive robot educator tool. The theoretical foundation for this study was the Technology Acceptance Model (TAM) and the Service Robot Acceptance Model (sRAM), which explore perceptions around the utility of technological systems. The…
Descriptors: Robotics, Instructional Materials, Middle School Teachers, Teacher Attitudes
Spyridoula Tsouganatou – ProQuest LLC, 2024
The purpose of this dissertation is to identify quality indicators for visual based learning material for technology education classes for grades 6th to 9th. This is a three round Delphi study aimed in answering the following research question. RQ: What are the quality indicators that contribute to the successful selection of visual-based learning…
Descriptors: Grade 6, Grade 7, Grade 8, Grade 9
Susanna Toikka; Lasse Eronen; Päivi Atjonen; Sari Havu-Nuutinen – Cogent Education, 2024
This study examined the metacognitive knowledge of Finnish comprehensive school students and explored whether grade-based differences in metacognitive knowledge exist among 6th, 7th and 9th graders. Integrating qualitative (declarative, procedural, conditional) and contextual (person, task, strategy) frameworks, the research aims for a…
Descriptors: Metacognition, Problem Solving, Instructional Program Divisions, Grade 6
Wing-Leung Yeung; Oi-Lam Ng – International Journal of Technology and Design Education, 2024
This paper reports a design and implementation of a STEM enrichment programme infused with affective elements designed for Hong Kong students. Specifically, it features a design-thinking approach to develop solutions to a self-selected problem addressing the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals. Around 30 upper primary school (grades 5 to…
Descriptors: STEM Education, Enrichment Activities, Foreign Countries, Elementary School Students
Anna Shapiro; Rebecca Sutherland; Julia H. Kaufman – RAND Corporation, 2024
Despite the growing body of research on how to support older readers, few studies consider whether U.S. teachers can identify students who have difficulty reading instructional materials across content areas or whether teachers feel like they have the knowledge and resources to support those students. Such information could lay the groundwork for…
Descriptors: Reading Instruction, Grade 3, Grade 4, Grade 5
Edelson, Daniel C.; Reiser, Brian J.; McNeill, Katherine L.; Mohan, Audrey; Novak, Michael; Mohan, Lindsey; Affolter, Renee; McGill, Tara A. W.; Buck Bracey, Zoë E.; Deutch Noll, Jamie; Kowalski, Susan M.; Novak, Dawn; Lo, Abraham S.; Landel, Carolyn; Krumm, Andrew; Penuel, William R.; Van Horne, Katie; González-Howard, María; Suárez, Enrique – Journal of Science Teacher Education, 2021
OpenSciEd is an ambitious effort to implement the vision of the "Framework for K-12 Science Education" and the "Next Generation Science Standards" broadly across the United States. The premise of OpenSciEd is that high quality instructional materials can play a critical role in transforming science teaching and learning at a…
Descriptors: Curriculum Development, Evidence Based Practice, Instructional Materials, Educational Change
Download full textZeytinli Ünal, Melike; Ünal, Suat; Çakiroglu, Ünal – Asian Journal of Distance Education, 2023
The efficiency of the distance education process can be evaluated from various aspects. One of the most important indicators in revealing the effectiveness of the distance education process is the satisfaction level of the learners. This study aimed to develop a valid and reliable satisfaction with distance education scale for secondary and high…
Descriptors: Distance Education, Test Construction, Test Validity, Test Reliability
Steven Keyser Skolfield – ProQuest LLC, 2022
Saint Edmond's Academy is a small, independent, Catholic school in Wilmington, Delaware. Students in Grades 4 to 7 are falling below their peers in other independent schools on standardized tests in mathematics, specifically the Educational Advisory Company Comprehensive Testing Program assessment. Within the scope of this work, my goal was to…
Descriptors: Catholic Schools, Private Schools, Small Schools, Grade 4
Cure, Goksel; Batu, E. Sema; Gulboy, Emrah – Reading & Writing Quarterly, 2021
The purpose of this study was to determine whether the story-mapping strategy used for developing narrative text comprehension skills in students with disabilities is an evidence-based strategy and to evaluate the moderator variables that are thought to be effective in reading comprehension. For this purpose, a systematic literature review was…
Descriptors: Students with Disabilities, Reading Comprehension, Evidence Based Practice, Program Effectiveness
Johnson, Erika – Reading & Writing Quarterly, 2021
Planned instructional scaffolding--the temporary use of materials, routines and structures to support students in doing challenging academic work--is a critical component of English-language reading instruction with emergent bilinguals (students formally categorized as English Language Learners). Although scholars describe how scaffolds…
Descriptors: English Language Learners, Scaffolding (Teaching Technique), Middle School Teachers, Student Diversity
Aisha Abdulmohsin Al Abdulqader; Amenah Ahmed Al Mulla; Gaida Abdalaziz Al Moheish; Michael Jovellanos Pinero; Conrado Vizcarra; Abdulelah Al Gosaibi; Abdulaziz Saad Albarrak – International Association for Development of the Information Society, 2022
The COVID-19 epidemic had caused one of the most significant disruptions to the global education system. Many educational institutions faced sudden pressure to switch from face-to-face to online delivery of courses. The conventional classes are no longer the primary means of delivery; instead, online education and resources have become the…
Descriptors: COVID-19, Pandemics, Teaching Methods, Online Courses
US Agency for International Development, 2020
Over 18 million children in Ethiopia are enrolled at the primary level with a net enrollment rate of 100 percent. Unfortunately, the positive achievement of getting more children into school has strained the capacity of the system, and student learning has suffered. USAID's 2018 Early Grade Reading Assessment suggests that only 40 percent of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Access to Education, Barriers, Reading Skills
Elizabeth Barrow; Kathryn Caprino – History Teacher, 2018
Our social studies classrooms are filled with students from many different backgrounds. This article aims to help middle grades (grades 6-8) social studies teachers consider how trade books that feature the global South can be paired with primary historical texts in order to help students develop perspective consciousness. Social studies educators…
Descriptors: Developing Nations, Social Studies, Middle School Teachers, Grade 6
Siler, Stephanie Ann; Klahr, David – Journal of Educational Psychology, 2016
One obstacle to understanding abstract concepts such as the "control of variables" strategy (CVS) is the tendency for learners to focus on surface rather than deep features in instructional materials. However, in tasks such as learning CVS, these same surface features may also support understanding, provided learners realize the…
Descriptors: Middle School Students, Learning, Science Experiments, Research Design
