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Novak, Melissa A. – ProQuest LLC, 2017
The purpose of this qualitative practitioner research study was to describe middle school algebra students' experiences of learning linear functions through kinesthetic movement. Participants were comprised of 8th grade algebra students. Practitioner research was used because I wanted to improve my teaching so students will have more success in…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Kinesthetic Methods, Graphs, Qualitative Research
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Chen, Mei-Ling – Learning and Individual Differences, 2009
The purpose of this study was to investigate relationships between grade level, perceptual learning style preferences, and language learning strategies among Taiwanese English as a Foreign Language (EFL) students in grades 7 through 9. Three hundred and ninety junior high school students participated in this study. The instruments for data…
Descriptors: Cognitive Style, Second Languages, Learning Strategies, Questionnaires
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Olivares-Cuhat, Gabriela – Penn GSE Perspectives on Urban Education, 2011
The purpose of this pilot study is to gain more insight into learner factors prominent in high-poverty urban schools and to suggest pedagogical approaches appropriate to this environment. To this end, three surveys were administered to students attending a high-poverty, urban middle school in order to measure their learning style preferences,…
Descriptors: Learning Strategies, Poverty Areas, Urban Schools, Middle School Students
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Bittel, Kirstin; Hernandez, Darrek – Science Scope, 2006
The ability to clearly communicate what was learned as the result of an experiment is a key component of science in general, not just science in the middle school classroom. Here, the authors state that in their eighth-grade classrooms, they have focused on their students' ability to write quality conclusions at the end of every laboratory…
Descriptors: Middle Schools, Expository Writing, Writing Skills, Class Activities