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Lauren Capotosto – Reading Horizons, 2024
To promote independent reading in middle school, teachers must understand why adolescents choose to read or not read a specific book. Yet, there is limited research on the factors that students consider when evaluating books that teachers have introduced them to in class. This study aimed to describe factors that 43 Grade 7 and 8 students noted as…
Descriptors: Middle School Students, Grade 7, Grade 8, Reading Material Selection
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Alex Corbitt – Journal of Literacy Research, 2023
This case study examined how a 14-year-old youth and eighth-grade student named Kendra (pseudonym) mobilized restorying to (re)center her experiences in horror fiction. I asked how she conceptualized horror and monstrosity in a 6-week English language arts unit, and how she (re)centered her life experiences within horror fiction through restorying…
Descriptors: Story Telling, Fiction, Middle School Students, Grade 8
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Song, Yi; Deane, Paul; Fowles, Mary – ETS Research Report Series, 2017
This study assessed 1,706 eighth-grade students' reasoning abilities through a critique task in an integrated argumentative reading and writing test. Results indicate that the majority of students did not detect fallacious arguments or clearly explain problems in the arguments. They encountered various challenges in critiquing an argument: (a)…
Descriptors: Criticism, Persuasive Discourse, Academic Ability, Grade 8
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Aytaç Onur Demirtas; Kerim Gundogdu – International Journal of Curriculum and Instructional Studies, 2024
This embedded-single case study aims to evaluate the efficacy of the 8th-grade music curriculum through the lens of Eisner's Educational Connoisseurship and Criticism Model. An initial survey involving 146 music teachers was conducted to determine the middle school grade-level music curriculum for evaluation. Subsequently, 15 music teachers, six…
Descriptors: Curriculum Evaluation, Music Education, Grade 8, Instructional Effectiveness
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Chauncey Monte-Sano; Ryan E. Hughes – Social Education, 2024
Middle school social studies teachers are increasingly working on argument writing in their classrooms so that students can successfully write counterarguments that acknowledge competing perspectives about historical and social issues by the end of eighth grade. The authors' prior research indicates that eighth-grade students "can" grow…
Descriptors: Multilingualism, Social Studies, Writing Instruction, Middle School Students
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Özalp Hamarta, Hatice Kübra – International Journal of Curriculum and Instruction, 2021
In this research, it is aimed to examine the perceptions of artwork of middle school 5th, 6th, 7th and 8th grade students within the scope of Art Criticism and Aesthetics learning field acquisitions in the Visual Arts Curriculum. This research is a qualitative research and was designed in the general survey model, which is one of the descriptive…
Descriptors: Middle School Students, Student Attitudes, Grade 5, Grade 6
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Minttu Vänttinen; Leila Kääntä – Classroom Discourse, 2024
This study investigates the multimodal construction of blame attributions in peer interaction during digital tasks in English as a Foreign Language classrooms. Drawing on multimodal conversation analysis (CA), we examine how the force of blamings is manifested in and through the variety of resources used, and the role of digital devices in the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Elementary School Students, Middle School Students, Grade 4
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Yazici, Tuba; Tasgin, Adnan – International Journal of Curriculum and Instruction, 2021
The study aimed to evaluate the 8th grade mathematics curriculum in Turkey, which was revised in 2016-2017 school year, and implemented from 2017-2018 school year on. In the study the Eisner's educational connoisseurship and criticism model was utilized. The participants of the study comprised 15 secondary school mathematics teachers selected by…
Descriptors: Grade 8, Mathematics Curriculum, Curriculum Evaluation, Educational Change
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Mulcahy, Dianne – Educational Philosophy and Theory, 2022
The aim of this article is to explore the worth of a materialist/posthumanist approach to ethics, specifically affirmative ethics (Braidotti, 2018, 2019a), within the field of education. I work empirical material that 'does' this ethics in classrooms and draw on Deleuze's (1988) ethically guided materialism as taken up by Braidotti (2019b), to…
Descriptors: Ethics, Educational Philosophy, Barriers, Teaching Methods
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Jackson, Glenn – Language and Education, 2021
To engage in critical praxis, teachers of literary response writing need concepts and methods for understanding the efficacy of teaching practices in helping students develop particular dispositions towards texts and the social issues they represent. In this article, the author uses concepts from Legitimation Code Theory (LCT) and Systemic…
Descriptors: Linguistics, English, Language Arts, Grade 8
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Ahmad, Sohail; Rodrigues, Sherwin; Bhutta, Sadia Muzaffar – Journal of Education and Educational Development, 2022
The International Large-Scale Assessment (ILSA) is a rapidly growing field in education which has gained considerable attention of stakeholders across the globe. Historically, ILSA emerged from the developed context which has drifted to the developing contexts in a short span of time due to globalisation. Pakistan has participated in ILSA (i.e.,…
Descriptors: Criticism, Foreign Countries, Elementary Secondary Education, Mathematics Achievement
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Shih, Shu-Shen – Journal of Educational Research, 2017
There is a shortage of studies that explore adolescents' academic procrastination. The author hence attempted to examine the mechanisms determining Taiwanese adolescent students' perfectionistic tendencies, time management, and academic procrastination. A total of 405 eighth-grade Taiwanese students completed a self-reported survey assessing their…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Adolescents, Time Management, Personality Traits
Sydoruk, Paige D. – ProQuest LLC, 2018
Higher order thinking skills have been embedded into state teaching standards, including Standard 9 of the New Jersey Core Curriculum Content Standards (NJCCCS) for 21st Century Life and Careers. These standards aim to encourage problem solving, critical thinking, reasoning, and real-world application in order to prepare students for the workplace…
Descriptors: English, Language Arts, Thinking Skills, State Standards
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Tataroglu, Eylem – Educational Research and Reviews, 2019
Turkey's Ministry of National Education aims to identify and develop valuable characteristics to prepare the nation's young for their professional life as adults. The Ministry has been conducting an extensive and comprehensive review of the educational system since the beginning of 2000. Educational system was implemented in time for the 2012/2013…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Art Education, Visual Arts, National Curriculum
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Baten, Kristof; Van Hiel, Silke; De Cuypere, Ludovic – Studies in Second Language Learning and Teaching, 2020
Content and language integrated learning (CLIL) has expanded in Europe, favored by the large body of research, often showing positive effects of CLIL on L2 development. However, critical voices have recently questioned whether these positive findings apply to any language, given that most research focuses on English. Taking into account this…
Descriptors: Vocabulary Development, French, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
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