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Ruth Jeong – ProQuest LLC, 2024
Bullying is a social phenomenon that involves more participants than the bully and the victim. Since the identification of other bullying participant behaviors, endeavors have been made to explore what inclines a person to defend a victim of bullying. With the social cognitive theory in mind, the current study examined whether students' level of…
Descriptors: Bullying, Teacher Student Relationship, Social Cognition, Ethics
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
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Flannery, Kaitlin M.; Bonafide, Katherine; Smith, Rhiannon L. – International Journal of Behavioral Development, 2023
Friendships frequently dissolve in early adolescence, but youth may continue to encounter ex-friends in their daily lives. The current study aimed to examine how adolescents' reactions to friendship dissolutions were associated with continued exposure to the former friend both in school and online via social media. Participants were 354 middle…
Descriptors: Friendship, Middle School Students, Social Media, Interaction
Tanya J. Reyes – ProQuest LLC, 2023
Educational systems are to prepare students for future success in our ever-changing world. Administrators must realize that before a student is willing to learn, crucial needs must be met, especially in low-socioeconomic areas such as the Rio Grande Valley. Some basic needs consist of food and shelter, which are vital for survival. Other needs…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Student Motivation, Grade 6, Grade 7
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Anita Caduff – Educational Research: Theory and Practice, 2024
Grounded in the literature on peer social capital, this study examines middle school students' perspectives on COVID-19-related changes in their peer interactions and friendships. Qualitative analyses of 146 students' survey responses showed that a majority experienced changes in their peer interactions and friendships. These students reported:…
Descriptors: COVID-19, Pandemics, Friendship, Middle School Students
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Elena M. Silla; Christina Areizaga Barbieri; Kristie J. Newton – Journal of Educational Psychology, 2024
Procedural flexibility is an important skill for algebra. Although prior work has focused on measuring students' procedural flexibility using arithmetic problems, word problems may also capture students' flexibility because of their open-ended nature. To date, no published study has examined the use of word problems as another measure of…
Descriptors: Middle School Students, Grade 6, Grade 7, Grade 8
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Michiko Sakaki; Kou Murayama; Anne C. Frenzel; Thomas Goetz; Herbert W. Marsh; Stephanie Lichtenfeld; Reinhard Pekrun – Child Development, 2024
This study examined how adolescents' emotions in mathematics develop over time. Growth curve modeling was applied to longitudinal data collected annually from 2002 to 2006 (Grades 5-9; N = 3425 German adolescents; M[subscript age] = 11.7, 15.6 years at the first and last waves, respectively; 50.0% female). Results indicated that enjoyment and…
Descriptors: Mathematics Achievement, Psychological Patterns, Adolescents, Grade 5
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Andreas de Barros; Alejandro J. Ganimian – Journal of Research on Educational Effectiveness, 2024
This is one of the first studies to evaluate the impact of computer-based individualized instruction in a developing country. We randomly assigned 1,528 students in grades 6-8 in 15 "model" public schools in Rajasthan, India who were using a computer-adaptive learning software to: a control group, in which they were only able to access…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Individualized Instruction, Computer Assisted Instruction, Grade 6
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Andrea L. Beerwinkle; Chellie Nelson – Technology, Knowledge and Learning, 2024
This study analyzed the comprehension strategies and visuals in two science textbook series for grades 6, 7, and 8 as means of better understanding a core element of the ecological component of science literacy. The iScience [Biggs et al. in iScience (Grade 6), McGraw-Hill, 2015a, iScience (Grade 7), McGraw-Hill, 2015b, iScience (Grade 7),…
Descriptors: Science Instruction, Textbooks, Grade 6, Grade 7
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Linda Andreev; Paola Uccelli – Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 2024
Mid-adolescence has been identified as a period of considerable potential growth in the language skills and practices that support reading and writing at school, but little research has examined mid-adolescents' use of connectives in school-relevant persuasive writing. In this study, we define connectives as cohesive devices that signal to a…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Writing Skills, Writing (Composition), Grade 5
Andra S. Morris – ProQuest LLC, 2023
Social-emotional learning (SEL) of students has been the focus in K-12 for many years. Recently, the impact of SEL on teachers has become important to universities and educational systems across the world. Teachers spend significant time with students. Teachers must create a positive and caring relationship for students to be academically and…
Descriptors: Grade 6, Grade 7, Grade 8, Middle School Students
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Yazgi Yanik, Zeynep; Afat, Nüket – Gifted and Talented International, 2022
The study aims to determine the relationship between metacognitive awareness and social emotional learning skills among gifted and talented students and to determine the effect of metacognitive awareness on social emotional learning skills in line with the relationship detected. It was also aimed to determine whether these concepts differ…
Descriptors: Metacognition, Social Emotional Learning, Academically Gifted, Grade 6
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Matthew Peck; Diana M. Doumas; Aida Midget – Professional Counselor, 2024
Researchers have utilized the Bystander Intervention Model to conceptualize bullying bystander behavior. The five-step model includes Notice the Event, Interpret the Event as an Emergency, Accept Responsibility, Know How to Act, and Decision to Intervene. The purpose of this study was to examine outcomes of an evidence-based bystander training…
Descriptors: Audiences, Intervention, Middle School Students, Attention
Christopher Kemp – ProQuest LLC, 2024
Due to the unintended impacts of out-of-school suspension that may occur to Black boys in middle school, all stakeholders, specifically school counselors, must fully comprehend how this type of discipline affects this population to better support them with best practices. The purpose of this qualitative phenomenological study was to gain a deeper…
Descriptors: Parent Attitudes, Suspension, Discipline, African American Students
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Anne Coffey; Shane Lavery; Leigh Sinclair – Issues in Educational Research, 2024
The level of engagement of students in schooling has long been associated with the type of educational outcomes achieved. This relationship is very apparent during early adolescence. It is during this developmental period that young people navigate the transition between primary and secondary school and may disengage from schooling. The Imagined…
Descriptors: Early Adolescents, Learner Engagement, Intervention, Student Attitudes
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