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Mustafa Senel; Bülent Dös – International Journal of Modern Education Studies, 2024
Designed by the Harvard University Project Zero team, Artful Thinking is basically a program that aims to improve students' awareness of art and increase their critical thinking skills by interpreting works of art and discussing them. In this way, students will acquire twenty-first century skills such as critical thinking and aesthetic…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Middle School Students, Middle School Teachers, Grade 6
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Chauncey Monte-Sano; Ryan E. Hughes – Social Education, 2024
Middle school social studies teachers are increasingly working on argument writing in their classrooms so that students can successfully write counterarguments that acknowledge competing perspectives about historical and social issues by the end of eighth grade. The authors' prior research indicates that eighth-grade students "can" grow…
Descriptors: Multilingualism, Social Studies, Writing Instruction, Middle School Students
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Özalp Hamarta, Hatice Kübra – International Journal of Curriculum and Instruction, 2021
In this research, it is aimed to examine the perceptions of artwork of middle school 5th, 6th, 7th and 8th grade students within the scope of Art Criticism and Aesthetics learning field acquisitions in the Visual Arts Curriculum. This research is a qualitative research and was designed in the general survey model, which is one of the descriptive…
Descriptors: Middle School Students, Student Attitudes, Grade 5, Grade 6
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Minttu Vänttinen; Leila Kääntä – Classroom Discourse, 2024
This study investigates the multimodal construction of blame attributions in peer interaction during digital tasks in English as a Foreign Language classrooms. Drawing on multimodal conversation analysis (CA), we examine how the force of blamings is manifested in and through the variety of resources used, and the role of digital devices in the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Elementary School Students, Middle School Students, Grade 4
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Ferretti, Ralph P.; Lewis, William E. – Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 2019
We assessed the influence of genre-specific discourse knowledge and writing goals on the persuasive writing of 4th and 6th grade students with and without learning disabilities (LD). Students were first interviewed about their knowledge of persuasion and persuasive writing. They then wrote a persuasive essay about a controversial topic after…
Descriptors: Prediction, Persuasive Discourse, Writing Skills, Essays
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Soysal, Y. – Research in Science Education, 2020
This study identified the accumulated distributions of the enacted discursive moves during classroom inquiry to demonstrate how a science teacher reacted to the existence of two mutually exclusive social languages: everyday social languages of the students vs. social languages of school science. The participants were a science teacher and 26…
Descriptors: Classroom Communication, Discourse Analysis, Video Technology, Science Teachers
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Larmer, John – Social Education, 2018
Project-Based Learning (PBL) is increasingly popular in K-12 schools, not just in the United States but around the world. PBL is a great way to engage students in their learning. In this article, the author presents what PBL is and is not.
Descriptors: Student Projects, Teaching Methods, Active Learning, Social Studies
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Nurnberger-Haag, Julie – Research in Mathematics Education, 2018
Practicing teachers as well as researchers, mathematicians, and teacher educators have offered opinions and theoretical critiques of the multiple models used to teach integer arithmetic. Few studies, however, have investigated what students learn with models or empirically compared affordances and constraints of integer models. This led me to…
Descriptors: Subtraction, Mathematics Instruction, Teaching Methods, Criticism
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Chin, Doris B.; Blair, Kristen P.; Wolf, Rachel C.; Conlin, Luke D.; Cutumisu, Maria; Pfaffman, Jay; Schwartz, Daniel L. – Journal of the Learning Sciences, 2019
Educators aim to equip students with learning strategies they can apply when approaching new problems on their own. Teaching design-thinking strategies may support this goal. A first test would show that the strategies are good for learning and that students spontaneously transfer them beyond classroom instruction. To examine this, we introduce…
Descriptors: Problem Solving, Learning Strategies, Teaching Methods, Design
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Tataroglu, Eylem – Educational Research and Reviews, 2019
Turkey's Ministry of National Education aims to identify and develop valuable characteristics to prepare the nation's young for their professional life as adults. The Ministry has been conducting an extensive and comprehensive review of the educational system since the beginning of 2000. Educational system was implemented in time for the 2012/2013…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Art Education, Visual Arts, National Curriculum
Samosa, Resty; Ilagan, Clariza; Ballaran, Bria Clorris; Margallo, Saira; Sunga, Rhona May – Online Submission, 2021
This study is intended on the development of the learners' reading comprehension and story analysis skills under the implementation of PowToon as an innovative instructional material for learners' development in reading comprehension and story analysis skills. This study provided various evidence on how innovation can be a great step in developing…
Descriptors: Reading Comprehension, Elementary School Students, Literary Criticism, Action Research
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Jones, Ryan Seth; Lehrer, Richard; Kim, Min-Joung – Cognition and Instruction, 2017
This article compares students' critiques within a class discussion about an invented statistic to STEM professionals' critiques from interviews to better understand how the situated meanings of a statistic are similar and different across student and professional worlds. We discuss similarities and differences in how participants constructed…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Criticism, STEM Education, Professional Personnel
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Donnelly, Dermot F.; Vitale, Jonathan M.; Linn, Marcia C. – Journal of Science Education and Technology, 2015
Middle school students struggle to explain thermodynamics concepts. In this study, to help students succeed, we use a natural language processing program to analyze their essays explaining the aspects of thermodynamics and provide guidance based on the automated score. The 346 sixth-grade students were assigned to either the critique condition…
Descriptors: Middle School Students, Grade 6, Secondary School Science, Thermodynamics
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Myers, Joy – English in Texas, 2014
This study focused on understanding the impact of incorporating digital reader response into a middle school literature class. Through interviews and the use of artifacts, a classroom teacher documented how altering the way students wrote about their readings shaped the quality and quantity of their writing. Outcomes reveal that blogging during…
Descriptors: Reader Response, Technology Uses in Education, Middle School Students, English Instruction
DiBella, Karen S. – ProQuest LLC, 2014
The purpose of this study was to measure the motivation for academic and recreational reading of 6th grade students in a middle school located in southwest Florida using the Elementary Reading Attitude Survey (ERAS). In this mixed methods study, motivation for both types of reading were measured, individual demographics of the population, such as…
Descriptors: Criticism, Recreational Reading, Reading Motivation, Correlation
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