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Lacoe, Johanna – Urban Education, 2020
A safe environment is a prerequisite for productive learning. Using a unique panel data set of survey responses from New York City middle school students, the article provides insight into the relationship between feelings of safety in the classroom and academic achievement. The survey data include the reported feelings of safety for more than…
Descriptors: Middle School Students, School Safety, Educational Environment, Urban Schools
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Kapici, Hasan Ozgur; Akcay, Hakan; de Jong, Ton – Journal of Research on Technology in Education, 2020
The science learning environment is an important factor in students' attitudes toward their science experiences in school, as well as toward science courses. This study compares how learning in different laboratory environments (hands-on or virtual) influences these attitudes for middle school (7th grade) students. Participants were 143…
Descriptors: Scientific Attitudes, Positive Attitudes, Attitude Change, Middle School Students
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Cain, Thomas; Hattie, John – Australian Journal of Education, 2020
This study analysed students' attitudes towards school and the relationship between these attitudes and reading performance. Using a sample of 57,572 Year 7 and 9 students from 306 Victorian government schools, the analysis combined two de-identified data sets -- students' responses to the Student Attitudes to School Survey and their performance…
Descriptors: Student Attitudes, Reading Achievement, Secondary School Students, Foreign Countries
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Soysal, Yilmaz; Yilmaz-Tuzun, Ozgul – Research in Science Education, 2021
This study investigated science classroom discourse in terms of the types of teacher discursive moves (TDMs) and the relationships between the types of TDMs and student-led cognitive contributions in different science concepts by considering the classroom context. An experienced seventh-grade science teacher and her 19 students were engaged in…
Descriptors: Middle School Teachers, Video Technology, Science Instruction, Classroom Environment
Elizabeth A. Burke – ProQuest LLC, 2021
The purpose of this mixed methods study was to determine if there was a correlation between the Technological Pedagogical Content Knowledge (TPACK) rating of teachers and the frequency of technology use in the classroom. Furthermore, the study identified the types of Internet-based applications used in primary classrooms and teachers' perception…
Descriptors: Pedagogical Content Knowledge, Technological Literacy, Classroom Environment, Technology Integration
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Salsabila, Erning Rahmadini; Wijaya, Agus Fany Chandra; Winarno, Nanang – Journal of Science Learning, 2019
Sustainability awareness is one of the things that the student should have to help in a caring environment. Sustainability awareness of the student can be built by knowledge and awareness of what should be done or not. The student will be more aware of the students involved and explore more in building a concept about the environmental issue…
Descriptors: Student Improvement, Sustainable Development, Consciousness Raising, Persuasive Discourse
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Okkinga, M.; van Gelderen, A. J. S.; van Schooten, E.; van Steensel, R.; Sleegers, P. J. C. – Reading Psychology, 2021
Low-achieving adolescents are known to have difficulties with reading comprehension. This article discusses whether principles of reciprocal teaching can improve low-achieving adolescents' reading comprehension in whole-classroom settings and to what extent treatment effects are dependent on implementation quality. Over the course of two years,…
Descriptors: Reciprocal Teaching, Low Achievement, Adolescents, Grade 7
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Lawrence, Anne M.; Sherry, Michael B. – Journal of Literacy Research, 2021
Literacy researchers have explored how video games might be used as supplementary texts in secondary English language arts (ELA) classrooms to support reading instruction. However, less attention has been focused on how video games, particularly online educational games designed to teach argumentation, might enhance secondary ELA students'…
Descriptors: Feedback (Response), Game Based Learning, Educational Games, Video Games
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Ablak, Selman; Yesiltas, Erkan – Review of International Geographical Education Online, 2020
Humans have been living in an environment since its existence. Human approaches and attitudes towards the environment in which they live have changed over time. It is hoped the negative attitudes of humans towards nature, the environment and environmental problems will change in a positive way, due to increasing levels of awareness occurring…
Descriptors: Secondary School Students, Environmental Education, Concept Formation, Conservation (Environment)
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Zhou, Jianhua; Huebner, E. Scott; Tian, Lili – School Mental Health, 2020
Based on the interplay between achievement goals theory and social comparison theory, our study focused on how achievement goals relate to subjective well-being in the school context in Chinese adolescents. Specifically, we addressed a theoretical model that specified that academic social comparisons and self-esteem would serve as mediators in the…
Descriptors: Longitudinal Studies, Well Being, Goal Orientation, Self Esteem
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Hunaepi, H.; Dewi, Ika Nuraini; Sumarjan, S. – Journal of Biological Education Indonesia (Jurnal Pendidikan Biologi Indonesia), 2019
Sasak Tribe possesses unique local wisdom which is potential to be utilized in term of improving students' care attitudes toward the environment. This study aimed at profiling students' evironmental attitudes who were taught using Sasak Tribe local wisdom-integrated model. This descriptive research was designed with a one-shot case study. The…
Descriptors: Indigenous Knowledge, Student Attitudes, Conservation (Environment), Grade 7
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Yiga, Sarah I.N.; Khoarai, Lerato; Khosana, Thapelo; Lesupi, Rebonethato; Mduli, Joanah; Shadwell, Tamryn; Botes, Johan; Joubert, Gina – South African Journal of Childhood Education, 2019
Background: Academic achievement is influenced by a system of internal and external stimuli. Internal stimuli include interest, willingness and academic motivation. In South Africa, efforts to improve the quality of education have mostly focused on the provision of physical resources rather than emotional resources. Aim: The aim of this study was…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Student Motivation, Academic Achievement, Elementary School Students
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Palavan, Özcan; Kozaner Yenigül, Çigdem – European Journal of Educational Research, 2021
Individuals and societies continue and end their lives within the framework of values. One of the most important of these values is the concept of homeland. Homeland refers to the land, where the individuals were born and live in, a piece of which may also be owned by such individuals. The concept of homeland is always given utmost importance in…
Descriptors: Elementary School Students, Middle School Students, Student Attitudes, Figurative Language
Bourke, Roseanna; O'Neill, John; McDowall, Sue; Dacre, Maria; Mincher, Nicole; Narayanan, Vani; Overbye, Sinead; Tuifagalele, Renee – New Zealand Council for Educational Research, 2021
The national COVID-19 lockdown during school Term 1 and continuing in Term 2 2020, provided a unique context to investigate?children's experiences of informal, everyday learning in their household bubble. In Terms 3 and 4, 178?children in Years 4-8 from 10 primary schools agreed to participate in a group art-making activity and?an individual…
Descriptors: COVID-19, Pandemics, School Closing, Elementary School Students
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Voight, Adam; Hanson, Thomas – Regional Educational Laboratory West, 2017
A growing number of educators concur that, in order to improve student academic performance, schools need to focus not only on students' academic needs but also on their social, emotional, and material needs (Piscatelli & Lee, 2011). As a result, school climate--the social, emotional, and physical characteristics of a school community (Cohen,…
Descriptors: Middle School Students, Grade 7, Academic Achievement, Educational Environment
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