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Boström, Erika; Palm, Torulf – Teacher Development, 2020
Research has identified characteristics of professional development programmes (PDPs) that are important for accomplishing change in teachers' practice and student achievement. However, these characteristics do not predict and guarantee the outcomes of a specific PDP. In the present study the authors investigated whether the expectancy-value…
Descriptors: Expectation, Value Judgment, Theories, Professional Development
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Walldén, Robert – Scandinavian Journal of Educational Research, 2022
This contribution explores how subject positions and perspectives are negotiated in the discursive practices of teaching social studies. The study involved a teacher and a group of second-language learners in Grade 6, the data being gathered by observations, voice recordings, and collection of teaching materials throughout seven weeks. The…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Language Minorities, Grade 6, Second Language Learning
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Keller, Lena; Preckel, Franzis; Brunner, Martin – Journal of Educational Psychology, 2021
It is well-documented that academic achievement is associated with students' self-perceptions of their academic abilities, that is, their academic self-concepts. However, low-achieving students may apply self-protective strategies to maintain a favorable academic self-concept when evaluating their academic abilities. Consequently, the relation…
Descriptors: Correlation, Academic Achievement, High Achievement, Low Achievement
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Forsberg, Camilla; Thornberg, Robert; Samuelsson, Marcus – Research Papers in Education, 2014
The aim with the present study was to investigate bystander actions in bullying situations as well as reasons behind these actions as they are articulated by Swedish students from fourth to seventh grade. Forty-three semi-structured individual interviews were conducted with students. Qualitative analysis of data was performed by methods from…
Descriptors: Bullying, Grade 4, Grade 5, Grade 6
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Nyman, Rimma – International Journal for Mathematics Teaching and Learning, 2015
This article presents results from an empirical study of how student engagement is visible during introductory algebra. Previously, the notion of engagement in mathematics has been studied from students' and researchers' perspectives. This study is instead focused on teachers' perspectives on student engagement. Eight teachers in grade 6-7 have…
Descriptors: Educational Indicators, Educational Practices, Introductory Courses, Algebra