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Siverling, Emilie A.; Moore, Tamara J.; Suazo-Flores, Elizabeth; Mathis, Corey A.; Guzey, S. Selcen – Journal of Engineering Education, 2021
Background: As engineering becomes increasingly incorporated into precollege classrooms, it is important to explore students' ability to engage in engineering practices. One of these practices, "engaging in argument from evidence," has been well studied in science education. However, it has not yet been fully explored in engineering…
Descriptors: Evidence Based Practice, Logical Thinking, Decision Making, Problem Solving
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Fegely, Alex; Winslow, Joseph; Lee, Cheng-Yuan; Rubbo, Louis J. – Contemporary Issues in Technology and Teacher Education (CITE Journal), 2021
This article reports findings from an exploratory study investigating the effects of robotics professional development sessions in underserved middle schools in the southeastern United States. Eleven middle-level science and mathematics teachers from a high-needs school district received year-long training in robotics technology and instructional…
Descriptors: Robotics, Faculty Development, Science Instruction, Mathematics Instruction
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Baker, Bruce D.; Weber, Mark; Srikanth, Ajay – Journal of Education Finance, 2021
This article explains the process behind estimating a National Education Cost Model (NECM) and generating from that model projections of per-pupil costs to achieve 2016 national average outcomes (reading and math grades 3 to 8) across all districts in the United States, from 2019-20 to 2020-21. This article is a follow-up to a preliminary report…
Descriptors: Models, Educational Finance, Grade 3, Grade 4
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Fancsali, Stephen E.; Li, Hao; Sandbothe, Michael; Ritter, Steven – International Educational Data Mining Society, 2021
Recent work describes methods for systematic, data-driven improvement to instructional content and calls for diverse teams of learning engineers to implement and evaluate such improvements. Focusing on an approach called "design-loop adaptivity," we consider the problem of how developers might use data to target or prioritize particular…
Descriptors: Instructional Development, Instructional Improvement, Data Use, Educational Technology
Ugulu, Ilker – Online Submission, 2021
Traditional ecological knowledge (TEK) can be defined as cumulative knowledge, beliefs, and practices transmitted from generation to generation, related to people's relationship with the environment. This study aims to determine the attitudes of gifted students towards traditional environmental knowledge and to examine them in terms of various…
Descriptors: Academically Gifted, Student Attitudes, Knowledge Level, Age Differences
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Kucan, Linda; Cho, Byeong-Young – Urban Education, 2022
This case study describes how culturally relevant pedagogy can be used in disciplinary rigorous ways in an urban middle school history classroom. The focus is on a unit about the Johnstown Flood of 1889, which provided a setting for teaching about the event as well as the historical thinking practices of contextualizing, sourcing, and…
Descriptors: Culturally Relevant Education, History Instruction, Thinking Skills, Urban Education
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Liu, Jindong; Wu, Biying; Qu, Jiayu – Education and Information Technologies, 2022
To tackle the debate surrounding the tension between knowledge and power in online education for adolescents and between freedom and control at large, this study examines how disciplinary power was exercised and resisted in a Chinese setting of online compulsory education during the COVID-19 outbreak in 2020. Overall, 60 participants, including…
Descriptors: Online Courses, COVID-19, Pandemics, Adolescents
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Litten, Jonathan – Journal of Adolescent & Adult Literacy, 2022
This article presents a case study on the use of expressivist writing pedagogy as a practice of identity construction for an adolescent Chinese-Speaking English Language Learner (ELL) in a 6-12, college preparatory, international boarding school context. The study implements a narrative inquiry/content analysis framework to analyze themes of…
Descriptors: Writing Instruction, Identification (Psychology), Adolescents, Chinese
Margolin, Jonathan; Pan, Jingtong; Friedman, Lawrence B.; Guyot, Katherine; Brown, Leah; Roach, Amy – American Institutes for Research, 2022
Playground Physics is a supplemental middle school science program designed to support embodied learning by enabling students to connect physics concepts to their own playful activities. The purpose of this study was to examine a model for scaling up the Playground Physics program and to determine the program's impact on middle school students'…
Descriptors: Middle Schools, Science Instruction, Learning Processes, Physics
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Junkala, Hannele; Berge, Maria; Silfver, Eva – Sex Education: Sexuality, Society and Learning, 2022
Shortcomings in sex and relationship education (SRE) related to norms and lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, intersex, asexuality (LGBTQIA) perspectives have been reported internationally and in Sweden. This paper reports on findings from a critical study of SRE content in Swedish biology textbooks for 13- to 16-year-old pupils, with the…
Descriptors: Sex Education, Biology, Textbooks, Textbook Content
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Thomas, Cathy Newman; Allen, Abigail A.; Ciullo, Stephen; Lembke, Erica S.; Billingsley, Glenna; Goodwin, Marilyn; Judd, Laura – Exceptionality, 2022
Focus groups were conducted with middle school general and special education teachers to investigate their perceptions of Response to Intervention (RTI) reading intervention. Three cross-cutting themes emerged through content analysis: (a) the exigency of professional development, (b) building capacity to implement in middle school, and (c)…
Descriptors: Middle School Teachers, Response to Intervention, Reading Difficulties, Teacher Attitudes
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Schüürmann, Alissa; Goagoses, Naska – Emotional & Behavioural Difficulties, 2022
The aim of the current study was to investigate the relationship between adolescents' social support, their internalising and externalising behaviour problems, and their alcohol consumption. Adolescents attending Grade 7-10 (N = 329), answered questionnaires regarding their perceived social support (from parents, teachers, classmates, and…
Descriptors: Social Support Groups, Adolescents, Behavior Problems, Drinking
Kirkland, Patrick K. – ProQuest LLC, 2022
Improving children's "number sense" has been a core component of recent mathematics curricular and instructional reforms (CCSS, 2010; NCTM, 2000, 2014) in the United States. Students with mature number sense make sense of numbers and operations, use reasoning to notice patterns, and flexibly select the most effective and efficient…
Descriptors: Numeracy, Mathematics Instruction, Mathematics Curriculum, Educational Change
Lewis, Karyn; Kuhfeld, Megan; Langi, Meredith; Peters, Scott; Fahle, Erin – Center for School and Student Progress at NWEA, 2022
In this brief we examine how variability in students' math and reading test scores changed across the pandemic, including whether increased dispersion was concentrated at one part of the test score distribution. Using reading and math assessment data from a sample of 8 million students in grades 3-8 in 24,000 public schools who took MAP Growth…
Descriptors: Achievement Gap, Mathematics Achievement, Reading Achievement, COVID-19
Kuhfeld, Megan; Langi, Meredith; Lewis, Karyn – NWEA, 2022
The purpose of this technical appendix is to share more detailed results and to describe more fully the sample and methods used in the research included in the brief, "The Widening Achievement Divide during COVID-19." The authors investigated two main research questions in this brief: (1) To what degree have students' reading and math…
Descriptors: Achievement Gap, Mathematics Achievement, Reading Achievement, COVID-19
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