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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
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Öztürk, Mesut; Demir, Ümit; Akkan, Yasar – International Journal on Social and Education Sciences, 2021
This study was carried out to examine proportional reasoning problem solving processes of seventh grade students. This study was conducted with the explanatory sequential mixed method design. In this respect, firstly, quantitative data from 56 students were collected and analyzed. Then, qualitative data of the study was collected from six students…
Descriptors: Thinking Skills, Mathematical Concepts, Mathematics Skills, Problem Solving
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Coachman, Erika de Freitas; Fernandes, Izabelle da Silva – AILA Review, 2023
The aim of this paper is to analyze a set of didactic materials developed to teach English as an Additional Language at a Brazilian public school in Rio de Janeiro. Such materials were designed to invite 7th grade students with diverse social, racial, and economic backgrounds to learn about the world and the English language from viewpoints that…
Descriptors: Metalinguistics, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
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I. Ketut Yoda; Indra Kasih; Taqi Ilra – Journal of Education and e-Learning Research, 2024
The objective of this study is to develop e-modules for bump pass learning for seventh-grade students. This study identified the problems and needs of students in learning bump pass skills, e-module eligibility and the effect of the e-module on students' bump pass skills. Two groups of seventh grades, two teachers serving as content experts and…
Descriptors: Team Sports, Student Athletes, Skill Development, Middle School Students
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Büscher, Christian – International Electronic Journal of Mathematics Education, 2021
Teachers do not directly implement new teaching materials, but rather adapt them. For changing teaching practice, research requires more insights into these adaptions. This study draws on the Theory of Instrumental Genesis to describe the ways teachers adopt the percentage bar model to create different learning opportunities. The results of the…
Descriptors: Media Adaptation, Instructional Materials, Models, Visual Aids
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I-Fan Lo; Ching-Huei Chen – Research in Science & Technological Education, 2024
Interdisciplinary learning has become prevalent as a means of solving problems encountered in everyday life. Yet, there is a lack of experimental studies investigating strategies to facilitate interdisciplinary learning. This study explored the impacts of timing and types of instructional materials on the study of interdisciplinary subjects. A 2 ×…
Descriptors: Interdisciplinary Approach, Time Factors (Learning), Instructional Materials, Game Based Learning
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Kuo, Wei-Chen; Hsu, Ting-Chia – Asia-Pacific Education Researcher, 2020
This study utilized unplugged computational thinking learning material named Robot City as the instructional material. The board game corresponds to structural programming, including sequential structure, conditional structure, repetitive structure, and the modeling concept of calling a procedure in programming languages. According to the…
Descriptors: Thinking Skills, Computation, Educational Games, Instructional Materials
Harris, Christopher J.; Feng, Mingyu; Murphy, Robert; Rutstein, Daisy W. – WestEd, 2022
This report describes initial findings from a study of middle school science curriculum materials that were designed to promote learning as called for by the Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS). WestEd led an independent randomized controlled trial to evaluate the efficacy of the NGSS-designed Amplify Science Middle School (ASMS) curriculum.…
Descriptors: Instructional Materials, Academic Standards, Science Curriculum, Middle Schools
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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
Kyla Candee Steppler – ProQuest LLC, 2020
The purpose of this action research was to evaluate the impact of writing prompts and graphic organizers on Mona school's 7th and 8th grade students' mathematical academic achievement and their attitudes towards the authentic application of mathematics. Two research questions guided the study: (1) How and to what extent, do writing prompts and…
Descriptors: Prompting, Writing (Composition), Instructional Materials, Middle School Students
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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
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Matic, Ljerka Jukic – Center for Educational Policy Studies Journal, 2019
Teachers' pedagogical design capacity is their ability to perceive and mobilise existing resources to create productive instructional episodes in the classroom. To a certain extent, this ability is dependent on the curricular resource used. As the textbook remains the most commonly used curricular resource in mathematics classrooms, the study…
Descriptors: Lesson Plans, Instructional Design, Teacher Role, Experienced Teachers
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Wang, Peishi; Jackson, Dia; Freeman-Green, Shaqwana; Kamuru, Jessica; Driver, Melissa – TEACHING Exceptional Children, 2023
This article provides a practical illustration of how culturally sustaining pedagogy (CSP) and evidence-based practices (EBPs) can be integrated into a mathematics curriculum to address social justice issues. A vignette is provided to illustrate how a secondary teacher infused social justice education in a seventh-grade mathematics lesson through…
Descriptors: Culturally Relevant Education, Evidence Based Practice, Mathematics Education, Social Justice
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Regan, Kelley; Evmenova, Anya S.; Mergen, Reagan L.; Verbiest, Courtney; Hutchison, Amy; Murnan, Reagan; Field, Sara; Gafurov, Boris – Learning Disabilities Research & Practice, 2023
Rubrics can be used to give students targeted feedback on their writing and, therefore, teachers should be able to use them as a type of formative assessment to guide writing instruction. This article describes an exploratory study of how three teachers provided instruction for fourth, fifth, and seventh graders with learning disabilities and…
Descriptors: Grade 4, Grade 5, Grade 7, Elementary School Students
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Guerrero, Tricia A.; Wiley, Jennifer – Journal of Educational Psychology, 2021
Past research has suggested that there may be benefits in learning from expository science text when students study with the expectation that they will need to teach another student. The present experiments were designed to extend prior work by testing whether an effect would be seen on both immediate tests (similar to those used in most prior…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Science Instruction, Peer Teaching, Expectation
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