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Michael Fienberg – ProQuest LLC, 2024
Secondary course assignment substantially determines a teacher's day-to-day work life, incentivizing them to realize their personal desires, which prior work shows tend to be working with more advanced students. Teachers have varying abilities to enact these desires, potentially due to their political capital, which is largely influenced by…
Descriptors: Secondary School Teachers, Assignments, Faculty Mobility, Leadership
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Ayodele Abosede Ogegbo; Adebunmi Yetunde Aina – Education and Information Technologies, 2024
This paper presents findings of an investigation on students' attitudes towards coding and its relationship with interest in STEM-related careers. A concurrent mixed-method research design involving a pre-intervention-intervention-post-intervention non-equivalent control group was adopted. A sample of 50 grade seven to nine South African students…
Descriptors: Student Attitudes, Coding, STEM Careers, Grade 7
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Duygu Sönmez – Pegem Journal of Education and Instruction, 2024
STEM education is on demand more than ever as the workforce relies on 21st century skills and STEM disciplines. This paper presents a framework (IMS-TEAM) for integration of mathematics and science with the use of technology and modeling in an authentic context. The activity based on this framework is designed for and implemented with forty-four…
Descriptors: STEM Education, Interdisciplinary Approach, Biology, Mathematics
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Jessica Wise Younger; Zoe D'Esposito; Irene S. Geng; Stephanie L. Haft; Project iLEAD Consortium; Melina R. Uncapher – Social Psychology of Education: An International Journal, 2024
Growth mindset has been shown to predict academic achievement in a variety of student populations, though the strength of the relationship can vary depending on the characteristics of the students examined. Using a large-scale sample of middle school students from a diverse district in the United States, we examine how multiple facets of students'…
Descriptors: Self Efficacy, Beliefs, Middle School Students, At Risk Students
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Yi-Chen Wu; Chia-Kuei Lee – Journal of School Nursing, 2024
Alcohol use ranks as one of the most prevalent health-risk behaviors among Taiwanese adolescents. Possible selves--personalized future-oriented cognitions about the self--are significant motivators of one's actions, which may potentially influence adolescent drinking behavior. This study aimed to estimate the content domain-specific possible…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Correlation, Self Concept, Drinking
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Abel Fekadu Dadi; Vincent He; John Guenther; Jiunn-Yih Su; Robyn Ober; Steven Guthridge – Australian Educational Researcher, 2024
The middle-school years (Year 7 to Year 9) is a particular challenge for socially disadvantaged populations, with high proportions of children either repeating school years or dropping out of school. In Australia, a group of particular concern is First Nations children for whom there is a collective effort by all governments to improve education…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Indigenous Populations, Middle School Students, Change
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Bijoy Kumar Rai; Nick Hopwood; Kezang Sherab – Journal of the International Society for Teacher Education, 2024
How do teachers elicit and sustain students' interest and engagement in science lessons? This paper answers this question in the context of Bhutan, where students' performance in science is low compared to other subjects, and where falling levels of interest in science are a concern. Like other countries in the Global South, a large proportion of…
Descriptors: Student Interests, Science Instruction, Learner Engagement, Grade 6
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Nachlieli, Talli; Tabach, Michal – Educational Studies in Mathematics, 2019
Ritual teaching, which provides students with ritual opportunities to learn, is common worldwide, notwithstanding extensive research calls for more reform-oriented teaching. Such resilience to change suggests that there are gains for ritual teaching. Therefore, in this study, we search for possible goals of ritual teaching. For this purpose, we…
Descriptors: Mathematics Instruction, Educational Opportunities, Grade 8, Mathematics
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Bielik, Tom; Fonio, Ehud; Feinerman, Ofer; Duncan, Ravit Golan; Levy, Sharona T. – Journal of Science Education and Technology, 2021
Complex systems are made up of many entities, whose interactions emerge into distinct collective patterns. Computational modeling platforms can provide a powerful means to investigate emergent phenomena in complex systems. Some research has been carried out in recent years about promoting students' modeling practices, specifically using…
Descriptors: Computation, Models, Design, Middle School Students
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Vinter, Kati – Educational Studies, 2021
Academic burnout is a severe problem among adolescents, and coping skills are becoming more crucial. The current study identified the latent profiles of Estonian middle school students, who were reporting different levels of burnout at three measurement points, during one academic year and examined the differences between identified profiles in…
Descriptors: Burnout, Profiles, Coping, Foreign Countries
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Güner, Pinar; Erbay, Hatice Nur – International Journal of Research in Education and Science, 2021
The purpose of this study is to investigate the metacognitive strategies that middle school students used in the process of solving problems individually. The study group consisted of 37 middle school students in the eighth grade. The students were asked one non-routine word problem, and their written answers were collected. After solving the…
Descriptors: Metacognition, Problem Solving, Middle School Students, Grade 8
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Tallman, Tamara Olena – Journal of Education, 2021
Collaboration has been found to be a powerful tool for professional development and central for creating opportunities for teachers to reflect on their practice. However, school districts continue to have difficulty both implementing and sustaining collaboration. The purpose of this research was to investigate the experience of the teacher in a…
Descriptors: Teaching Experience, Teacher Collaboration, Faculty Development, Middle School Teachers
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Mnguni, Lindelani – Education Sciences, 2021
School science subjects may be informed by curriculum ideologies such as discipline-centered, service-centered, student-centered, or citizen-centered ideologies. The distinct characteristics of each ideology complicate the extent to which science subjects could integrate different curriculum ideologies. Consequently, the present research explored…
Descriptors: Natural Sciences, Science Curriculum, Ideology, Student Centered Learning
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Romig, John Elwood; Olsen, Amanda A. – Reading & Writing Quarterly, 2021
Compared to other content areas, there is a dearth of research examining curriculum-based measurement of writing (CBM-W). This study conducted a conceptual replication examining the reliability, stability, and sensitivity to growth of slopes produced from CBM-W. Eighty-nine (N = 89) eighth-grade students responded to one CBM-W probe weekly for 11…
Descriptors: Curriculum Based Assessment, Writing Evaluation, Middle School Students, Grade 8
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Aydin-Güç, Funda; Aygün, Derya – International Online Journal of Education and Teaching, 2021
The study aimed to determine the mistakes of students in operations with algebraic expressions, and their misconceptions that may lead to errors. The study adopted case study method, one of the qualitative research models. The participants were composed of 48 (24 boys, 24 girls) randomly selected among 8th grade students in three different classes…
Descriptors: Error Patterns, Misconceptions, Mathematical Concepts, Equations (Mathematics)
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