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Anna Hawrot; Lena Nusser – Scandinavian Journal of Educational Research, 2025
This study investigated whether various aspects of the home learning environment -- that is, learning-related processes, parental perceptions of their child, and structural characteristics -- predicted private tutoring attendance in Grade 8. We used the data of 7393 students from the German National Educational Panel Study. Seventeen percent of…
Descriptors: Family Environment, Educational Environment, Tutoring, Private Education
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Ben Rydal Shapiro; Ilana Seidel Horn; Sierra Gilliam; Brette Garner – Educational Researcher, 2024
In conversations about pedagogy, researchers often overlook how physical space and movement shape teacher sensemaking. This article offers a comparative case study of classroom videos using a dynamic visual method to map embodied interaction called "interaction geography." Our analysis proposes an integrative framework to study classroom…
Descriptors: Motion, Teaching Methods, Physical Environment, Geography
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Yrjö Engeström; Pauliina Rantavuori; Piia Ruutu; Maria Tapola-Haapala – Educational Review, 2024
The article explores developmental tensions in Finnish adolescents' accounts of their different worlds. By understanding tensions experienced by students, educators can develop their pedagogical practices to address those tensions. Building on cultural-historical activity theory, we analysed 12 interviews of 8th graders, focusing on their…
Descriptors: Family School Relationship, Foreign Countries, Grade 8, Peer Influence
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Anna-Lena Neurohr; Nadine Pasch; Alexander Bergmann-Gering; Andrea Möller – Journal of Environmental Education, 2024
To promote pro-environmental behavior (PEB), it is crucial to understand the drivers behind it. Studies indicate that, in addition to environmental attitudes and nature activities, interest in nature drives people to engage in PEB. However, the relationship between interest in nature and PEB is still greatly understudied among adolescents even…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Elementary Secondary Education, Grade 5, Grade 6
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Daisy Pelletier; Frédéric Guay; Érick Falardeau – Reading Research Quarterly, 2024
Reading skills are considered an important lever for success in school and active participation in society. They are positively associated with reading motivation, reading self-concept, reading frequency, and behavioral engagement in reading (e.g., time, effort), variables that tend to decline as students move from elementary to secondary school.…
Descriptors: Reading Instruction, Teacher Student Relationship, Parent Student Relationship, Peer Relationship
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López, Verónica; Salgado, Mauricio; Berkowitz, Ruth – School Effectiveness and School Improvement, 2023
Supportive school and classroom climates can add to student achievement and compensate for the negative contribution of low-socioeconomic status (SES) to academic achievement. We tested the added contribution of school and classroom climate to Chilean students' mathematics test scores. We performed a secondary analysis of 151,015 eighth-grade…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Grade 8, Junior High School Students, Socioeconomic Status
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María Pilar García-Rodríguez; Sara Conde-Velez; Manuel Delgado-García; José Carmona Márquez – Learning Environments Research, 2024
We present the validation of a questionnaire for compulsory secondary school students (seventh to tenth grade), designated "Educational learning environments for ESO pupils" (CEApA_ESO), for the purpose of evaluating learning environments. Although many instruments have been developed in this area, our work attempts to comprehensively…
Descriptors: Educational Environment, Compulsory Education, Secondary Education, Grade 7
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Elisa Serrano-Ausejo; Eva Mårell-Olsson – Education and Information Technologies, 2024
Organic chemistry, also known as stereochemistry, is a subject considered to be notably complex for students to understand. Knowledge construction in stereochemistry might demand the ability to imagine or visualise the distribution of atoms. For students with insufficient spatial ability, this could be confusing. This study aimed to explore…
Descriptors: Organic Chemistry, Computer Simulation, Physical Environment, Simulated Environment
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Xin Li; Regena F. Nelson; Jianping Shen – Early Education and Development, 2025
Research Findings: This study illustrated whether and how ecological environments are associated with language-minority students' (N = 12,500) math and reading development from kindergarten to the eighth grade. Results identified the robust effects of preschool type, kindergarten length, classroom activities, parent-child reading, parent…
Descriptors: Environmental Influences, Minority Group Students, Mathematics Achievement, Reading Achievement
Napier, Rebecca D.; Jarvis, Jane M.; Clark, Julie; Halsey, R. John – Gifted Child Quarterly, 2024
Despite adolescent girls' superior school achievement and high career aspirations, fewer women than men achieve career eminence. Understanding early influences on the development of gifted girls' career-related values and aspirations may help to explain this discrepancy in career outcomes. This article reports findings from a qualitative,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Females, Womens Education, Selective Admission
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Abdullah Ambusaidi; Huda Al-Dayri; Maryam Al-Sumari – Cogent Education, 2024
The study aimed to explore the effectiveness of a sustainable environmental tourism educational program in influencing the attitudes of eighth-grade Omani students towards the environment and their inclination to engage in entrepreneurship in environmental tourism projects. The study adopted a quasi-experimental design with two groups:…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Sustainability, Tourism, Grade 8
Adam P. Parisi – ProQuest LLC, 2022
Little has changed about the physical properties of public schooling in the United States since the industrial revolution--desks, rows, and teachers at the front of the room (McCoy, 2007). Foote (2019) has argued there is no better way to create a more modern learning space than to do a complete redesign. Given the dramatic redefinition of…
Descriptors: Public Schools, Educational Environment, Classroom Environment, Teacher Attitudes
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Ören, Fatma Sasmaz; Karapinar, Aysegül; Sari, Kübranur; Demirer, Tugba – Journal of Educational Research and Practice, 2023
The aim of our study was to investigate the effect of scenario-based learning on eighth-grade students' perceptions of scientists. We used a semiexperimental design to conduct our research with 36 students from the eighth grade, who were divided into experimental and control groups. We collected the data through a "Draw-a-Scientist…
Descriptors: Secondary School Students, Grade 8, Vignettes, Student Attitudes
David Stroupe; Lindsay Berk; Anna Kramer – Phi Delta Kappan, 2024
As people with power in schools, teachers and administrators make instructional decisions that shape opportunities in classrooms for students to learn. Educators' words and actions, especially related to the treatment of students and their ideas, are foundational for creating equitable learning communities in our classrooms and schools. David…
Descriptors: Equal Education, Classroom Environment, Social Justice, Teacher Student Relationship
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Barksdale, Christopher; Peters, Michelle L.; Corrales, Antonio – Educational Studies, 2021
The purpose of this sequential mixed methods study was to examine the relationship between classroom climate and student achievement of middle school students. A purposeful sample of 428 middle school students (6th-8th grade) from a large southeastern Texas school district were administered the "Learning Environment Inventory" (LEI) to…
Descriptors: Middle School Students, Student Attitudes, Classroom Environment, Academic Achievement
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