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Shalom Labkovski – ProQuest LLC, 2024
In an era of heightened accountability and expanding educational technology choices, mathematics educators must critically assess the effectiveness of the tools available to them. While deciding on technological tools, it is essential that we not only promote rigor in mathematics but also ensure closing learning gaps and improve students' beliefs…
Descriptors: Mathematical Aptitude, Mastery Learning, Individual Development, Course Evaluation
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Siman Zhao; Xinyin Chen; Heejung Park; Dan Li; Junsheng Liu; Liying Cui – Developmental Psychology, 2024
Self- and group orientations represent distinct ways of perceiving the relations between the world and the self and are relevant to adolescents' development. Most of the existing studies in this area are cross-sectional, providing little information about how self- and group orientations develop. This 3-year longitudinal study examined the…
Descriptors: Early Adolescents, Foreign Countries, Social Adjustment, Student Behavior
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Joana Pipa; João R. Daniel; Francisco Peixoto – Psychology in the Schools, 2024
Grade retention is one of the most discussed and controversial educational measures, and yet, it is still widely applied in many countries. Research investigating the effects of grade retention on students' psychosocial variables presents mixed findings, partly due to the variables assessed, methodological issues, and the length of the studies.…
Descriptors: Goal Orientation, Grade Repetition, Self Esteem, Self Concept
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Audrey Dupuis; Danyka Therriault; Julie Lane; Jonathan Smith; Patrick Gosselin; Martin Drapeau; Eliane Saint-Pierre Mousset; Pascale Morin; Isabelle Thibault; Magali Dufour; Chantal Viscogliosi; Félix Berrigan – Canadian Journal of School Psychology, 2024
Anxiety disorders have been on the rise among adolescents over the past decade. The COVID-19 pandemic appears to have contributed to this increase, putting further pressure on often already overburdened health systems. Universal prevention programs may offer a potential solution, but few have been evaluated in the context of a pandemic. The…
Descriptors: Anxiety, Symptoms (Individual Disorders), Adolescents, Student Participation
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Çakir, Zehra; Yalçin, Sema Altun; Günsel, Seyma Güvenç – Journal of Science Learning, 2022
In the research, the effect of engineering design-based STEM activities on the school belonging to seventh-grade refugee students was examined. A mixed-method was used in the research. The research sample consists of 32 Syrian refugee students studying in the 7th grade in the fall semester of the 2019-2020 academic year. The study lasted for ten…
Descriptors: Grade 7, Middle School Students, Foreign Countries, Refugees
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Mihyeon Kim; Jennifer Riedl Cross – Gifted Child Today, 2025
The Center for Gifted Education (Center) at William & Mary has provided diverse enrichment programs for high-ability students since 1988. With an aspiration to serve financially disadvantaged students, the Center developed and hosted a summer residential enrichment program in STEM areas. Camp Launch, for low-income, high-ability middle school…
Descriptors: Grade 10, Talent Development, Low Income Students, Ability
Yvonne J. Munoz – ProQuest LLC, 2022
The Texas Education Agency (TEA) has implemented a student accountability system that measures students' performance on State of Texas Assessment for Academic Readiness (STAAR) in several content areas. How students perform determines the accountability ratings that will be assigned to every school district in Texas. Therefore, teachers and…
Descriptors: Middle School Teachers, Rural Schools, Achievement Tests, Middle School Students
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Susana Claro; Susanna Loeb – Educational Researcher, 2024
Previous research provides evidence that developing a growth mindset--believing that one's capabilities can improve--promotes academic achievement. Although this phenomenon has undergone prior study in a representative sample of ninth graders in the United States, it has not been studied in representative samples of other grade levels or with…
Descriptors: Student Attitudes, Individual Development, School Districts, Academic Achievement
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Angela Johnson – Teachers College Record, 2024
Background or Context: Dual language education aims to foster the development of bilingualism, biliteracy, sociocultural competence, and academic skills in all school subjects. Early correlational research suggests that participation in dual language education is associated with higher achievement. Recent studies leveraged more comprehensive sets…
Descriptors: Bilingual Education Programs, Hispanic American Students, Grade 2, Grade 3
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Kozoll, Richard H.; Ower, Peter S. – Science Education International, 2023
Research-based science curriculum has become a common means of supporting best practices in science teaching. In response to his middle school's transition from one such commercially available science curriculum to another, a seventh-grade science teacher elected to make certain changes to the newly adopted curriculum in its first year of use.…
Descriptors: Middle School Teachers, Science Teachers, Professional Identity, Individual Development
Kevin Keane; Retta Evans; Catheryn Orihuela; Sylvie Mrug – Grantee Submission, 2023
Early adolescence is a time of increased stress and risk for poorer psychosocial functioning, but few studies have explored the relationship between stress and psychosocial functioning in the context of teacher-student relationships during early adolescence. This study used a two-wave longitudinal design to investigate the unique and interactive…
Descriptors: Middle School Students, Grade 6, Grade 7, Teacher Student Relationship
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Kevin Keane; Retta R. Evans; Catheryn A. Orihuela; Sylvie Mrug – Psychology in the Schools, 2023
Early adolescence is a time of increased stress and risk for poorer psychosocial functioning, but few studies have explored the relationship between stress and psychosocial functioning in the context of teacher-student relationships during early adolescence. This study used a two-wave longitudinal design to investigate the unique and interactive…
Descriptors: Middle School Students, Grade 6, Grade 7, Teacher Student Relationship
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Balan, Andreia; Sjöwall, Douglas – Scandinavian Journal of Educational Research, 2023
Deliberate practice and having a growth mindset have been hypothesized to increase school performance. But previous studies are few, have been limited to very short interventions, and on average resulted in small effect sizes on school performance. This study compared the attitudes, performance, and behavior of 130 7th-grade students taking part…
Descriptors: Grade 7, Middle School Students, Mathematics Instruction, Intervention
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Jiranattakorn Paorisankhunnakorn; Montree Wongsaphan; Daranee Chanthamixay; Thoshatus Boonta – International Journal of Education & the Arts, 2023
This study employed a research and development method to design courses that enhance creative dance skills for students in Mathayomsuksa 1 (typically aged 12-13 years). Divided into four phases, the study used background information and input from students and teachers to design a dance course that addressed the neglect of Thai culture in the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Dance Education, Creativity, Cultural Awareness
Margo A. Nauert – ProQuest LLC, 2021
Gifted students have unique social-emotional needs that are amplified through their heightened sensitivities or overexcitabilities. Common traits that gifted students exhibit in addition to their social-emotional needs are similar to those needed for the optimal level of citizenship, the justice-oriented citizen. This qualitative study asked a…
Descriptors: Academically Gifted, Student Needs, Social Emotional Learning, Grade 7
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