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Kashihara, Shiho; Fukaya, Tatsushi – European Journal of Psychology of Education, 2023
Predicting the actual performance of strategy use with self-report questionnaires is difficult, especially among elementary school children. Nevertheless, due to the simplicity of self-report questionnaires, it is desirable to identify one that can predict children's performance of actual strategy use. This study investigated whether a self-report…
Descriptors: Mathematics Instruction, Problem Solving, Visual Aids, Questionnaires
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Pimentel, Daniel; Kalyanaraman, Sri – Interactive Learning Environments, 2023
The United Nation's Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) have served as a call-to-action to educate and engage global communities on various issues, namely climate change. Despite heightened awareness of climate change, several barriers inhibit underrepresented students' engagement with the subject matter, namely limited accessibility to (a)…
Descriptors: Computer Simulation, Science Instruction, Climate, Learner Engagement
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Sima Özdemir Bülbül; Esra Mindivanli Akdogan – International Journal of Contemporary Educational Research, 2023
Digital games have become more involved in our lives and entertainment culture with the development of technology. Digital games, which individuals of all ages play and derive great enjoyment from at the the same time, have been actively used in educational activities. However, it is seen that the games used in the education process are mostly…
Descriptors: Grade 6, Middle School Students, Educational Games, Computer Games
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Yildiz Yildirim; Melek Gülsah Sahin – International Journal of Psychology and Educational Studies, 2023
There is increasing interest in meta-analysis in different fields due to the need to combine the results of primary research. One of the crucial concepts in combining results is weighting. This study examines how Hunter and Schmidt's method, weighting by sample size; Hedges and Vevea's method, weighting by inverse variance; and Osburn and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Weighted Scores, Meta Analysis, Effect Size
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Nurcan Keles; Mary Nyaema – Journal of Visual Literacy, 2023
The goal of the study was to compare how visual representations were integrated into the contents of the U.S. and Turkish textbooks used in life science. Data was collected from 6th, 7th, and 8th grade middle school topics common to both countries. Content analysis was used to analyse visual representations in textbooks. The visual representations…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Textbooks, Biological Sciences, Middle Schools
Katherine Lass; Sarah Walsh; Hilary Demby; Rebekah Snider; Kelly Burgess; Eric Jenner – Grantee Submission, 2023
The purpose of this study was to evaluate Peer Group Connection-Middle School, a cross-age peer mentor program designed to enhance student retention and achievement during the transition from elementary to middle school. We present findings from an individual-level randomized controlled trial that included 1,902 sixth-grade students across three…
Descriptors: Peer Relationship, Mentors, School Holding Power, Academic Achievement
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Burnett, Victoria; Li, Christine Jie; Schulz, John H. – Applied Environmental Education and Communication, 2023
We explored factors affecting outdoor classroom design by assessing attitudes and drawings from 73 sixth graders from a single middle school. Females had more favorable attitudes about the value of outdoor classrooms, were more motivated to build an outdoor classroom, and had stronger attitudes about outdoor classrooms benefiting wildlife.…
Descriptors: Grade 6, Middle School Students, Student Attitudes, Outdoor Education
Gülsüm Tasci; Yasin Soylu – Online Submission, 2023
The aim of this research is to determine whether the use of augmented reality applications in the teaching of the subject of ''Geometric objects'' in the sixth grade mathematics class has an effect on the development of students' geometric thinking levels and spatial ability. The research was conducted using a pre experimental design, one of the…
Descriptors: Computer Simulation, Geometric Concepts, Mathematics Instruction, Thinking Skills
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Ayman Aljarrah; Jo Towers – North American Chapter of the International Group for the Psychology of Mathematics Education, 2023
In a research study designed to investigate the emergence of collective creativity in elementary classroom settings, and in which teachers' decision-making practices were analyzed alongside both the teachers' observed teaching practices in their classrooms and their students' problem solving actions, the first author developed four metaphors for…
Descriptors: Elementary School Teachers, Teacher Role, Creativity, Elementary School Students
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Yang, Der-Ching; Sianturi, Iwan Andi Jonri – International Journal of Science and Mathematics Education, 2021
Numbers and operations is widely considered the most essential domain in elementary school grades. Nevertheless, elementary students in Indonesia have consistently performed unsatisfactorily on this domain in several international mathematics assessments. This study examined 308 Indonesian sixth grade students' current performance(s),…
Descriptors: Grade 6, Middle School Students, Mathematics Achievement, Misconceptions
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Scharrer, Erica; Zhou, Yuxi – Journal of Media Literacy Education, 2021
Research shows that young people are likely to encounter considerable amounts of violence in the media they use. Some of those depictions trivialize the severity of violence. Past studies show that media literacy education can spur critical thinking regarding violent portrayals in media texts. But rarely do prior studies employ qualitative methods…
Descriptors: Early Adolescents, Critical Thinking, Mass Media, Media Literacy
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Matos, Flora – Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 2021
Converging evidence indicates that argumentative thinking and writing are promoted by peer discourse. Here it is proposed that collaborative writing can serve as a bridge from peer discourse to individual argumentative writing. Three groups of sixth graders participated in a study that tested this hypothesis. Two of the groups took part in a…
Descriptors: Collaborative Writing, Peer Relationship, Persuasive Discourse, Dialogs (Language)
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Martinez, Silvia; Blanco, Vanessa – Education Sciences, 2021
The aim of this work is to study the knowledge that 11 to 12-year-old pupils have about the different meanings of fractions. For this purpose, an investigation about the ability that 11 to 12-year-old pupils have with fraction problems through problem posing is performed. In particular, we analyze if they pose different types of problems depending…
Descriptors: Problem Solving, Fractions, Mathematics Instruction, Elementary School Students
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Glenn D. Walters; Jon Kremser; Lindsey Runell – International Journal of Bullying Prevention, 2021
The goals of this study were to determine whether children who took the bus to school on a regular basis felt safest during the commute to school, in school, or on the commute home from school, and to identify the factors that correlate with fear of being bullied on the bus. A sample of 610 students (296 boys, 313 girls; mean age = 11.25 years, SD…
Descriptors: Grade 6, Bullying, School Buses, Student Transportation
Alexis B. Peirce Caudell – ProQuest LLC, 2021
This dissertation examines how children make sense of the boundaries of technology and nature through a case study of thirty students in the sixth through seventh grade, attending a public charter school in the Ohio River Valley region of the United States of America (US). Using data collected via a range of ethnographic methods including…
Descriptors: Grade 6, Grade 7, Charter Schools, Student Attitudes
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