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Juan Gregorio Fernández-Bustos; Pablo Cuesta-Valera; David Zamorano-García – Journal of Physical Education, Recreation & Dance, 2024
Physical education is often viewed as a public health tool that can be used to increase the amount of physical activity young people engage in. However, not only should the amount of physical activity at school and in physical education lessons be increased, but students should also acquire the knowledge, skills, motivation and responsibility that…
Descriptors: Child Health, Physical Education, Multiple Literacies, Student Motivation
Allison Master; Taylor Alexander; Jennifer Thompson; Weihua Fan; Andrew N. Meltzoff; Sapna Cheryan – Journal of Research on Technology in Education, 2025
Motivating girls to enroll in computer science (CS) courses is critically important. Stereotypes that girls are less interested than boys in CS may deter girls. Three preregistered experimental studies (N = 1,053) examined causal links between gender-interest stereotypes and middle school students' CS motivation. Experiment 1 showed that…
Descriptors: Females, Womens Education, Middle School Students, Computer Science Education
Hajar, Anas; Sagintayeva, Aida; Izekenova, Zhanna – Cambridge Journal of Education, 2022
This paper used three participatory methods- children's drawings, photographs, and group interviews- along with a short questionnaire to explore Grade 6 pupils' experiences and perceptions of the private tutoring (PT) they had received in Nur-Sultan, Kazakhstan. The questionnaire data suggest that 316 out of 406 (79.87%) attended PT. The…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Tutoring, Grade 6, Student Attitudes
Chen, Bixia – Education 3-13, 2023
Cooperative learning is a teaching method that makes students achieve common goals through joint efforts. This study explores the influence of cooperative learning on learners through a quasi-experimental design, employing a pre-test-post-test data collection method. The Student Team-Achievement Division (Slavin, R. E. 1978. "Using Student…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Cooperative Learning, Student Motivation, Grade 6
Gersib, Jenna A. – Beyond Behavior, 2023
Motivational interviewing (MI) is an established, research-based intervention that focuses on building intrinsic motivation to promote lasting, healthy changes in a variety of situations. In school settings, MI has been used to improve student motivation, attendance, punctuality, confidence in schoolwork, and self-determination as well as increase…
Descriptors: Middle School Students, Behavior Change, Student Behavior, Interviews
Septian A. Permana; Muhammad Maulana; Supri Hartanto – Pegem Journal of Education and Instruction, 2024
The background of this research is the low interest of children learning social studies, meanwhile, the purpose of this study was to increase interest and social studies learning achievement with the subject of growth and development of the national spirit with the Think Pair Share Pedagogic Criticle (TPSPC) learning model in class VIII students.…
Descriptors: Social Studies, Student Interests, Academic Achievement, Middle School Students
Miguel Angel Feliciano – ProQuest LLC, 2023
The problem addressed by this study was the high dropout rate of Latinx students precipitated by academic problems and exacerbated by poor student-teacher relationships. The purpose of this qualitative narrative case study was to understand how student-teacher relationships affected Latinx students' decision to drop out of school. The guiding…
Descriptors: Hispanic American Students, Dropout Rate, Teacher Student Relationship, Student Attitudes
Belousova, Alla; Mochalova, Yuliya; Tushnova, Yulya – Education Sciences, 2022
Currently, during the pandemic, the forced transition to distance learning carries a number of problems. These problems affect various aspects of education, including the study of students' attitudes to distance learning. The purpose of this research is to study the features of the subjective attitude of schoolchildren and students to distance…
Descriptors: Student Attitudes, Distance Education, Affordances, Barriers
Ogunrinde, Joyce Olushola – Sport, Education and Society, 2023
Young girls who participate in sport may receive holistic health benefits from participation. Yet, socioecological factors limit their participation on structural, cultural and individual levels. Moreover, scholars are focusing more on theories that explore how race and gender work simultaneously to permeate the meanings and motivations…
Descriptors: Student Participation, Athletics, Females, African American Students
Gür, Hülya; Filiz, Ahsen – Journal of Educational Technology and Online Learning, 2022
This study was conducted to reveal how parents perceive the distance education process during the COVID-19 pandemic. The study group consists of 15 participants in Lüleburgaz district of Kirklareli province. The case study design, one of the qualitative research methods, was used in the study and data were collected online with a semi-structured…
Descriptors: Parent Attitudes, Distance Education, COVID-19, Pandemics
Donald Paul Marra Jr. – ProQuest LLC, 2022
This nonexperimental quantitative study surveyed middle level educators' perceptions of student engagement during the COVID-19 global pandemic. The In-Person versus Online Learning (IPVOL) survey was administered broadly across the Lower Hudson Valley of New York resulting in 152 responses. This study's findings supported the literature and…
Descriptors: COVID-19, Pandemics, Middle School Teachers, Teacher Attitudes
Gula, Louie Petere – Online Submission, 2023
This study aimed to identify the factors that lead to ineffective practice and the decreasing motivation of junior high school athletes for physical training in preparation for City Meet and EVRAA. To point out the several factors contributing to the problem, the researcher used the Ishikawa diagram. An Ishikawa diagram is a visual representation…
Descriptors: Junior High School Students, Athletics, Competition, Student Motivation
Talan, Tarik; Yilmaz, Zeynel Abidin; Batdi, Veli – Journal of Education in Science, Environment and Health, 2022
The aim of this study is to investigate how the use of augmented reality (AR) applications in educational environments affects students' achievement levels. The study was carried out through two dimensions; a quantitative and a qualitative aspect. The study was conducted with 7th-grade students in a public secondary school in Turkey as part of a…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Secondary School Students, Grade 7, Science Education
Laidlaw, Jordan – Canadian Journal of Action Research, 2022
Using an action research methodology, I conducted a self-study to improve my capacity to implement creative music pedagogies with Grade 4 and 5 students (N = 43) in a school on the Canadian prairies. Data sources included: field notes, student assessments, video recordings, debriefing sessions, small group conversations, and surveys. Qualitative…
Descriptors: Grade 4, Grade 5, Music Education, Creative Teaching
Davy Tsz Kit Ng; Chen Xinyu; Jac Ka Lok Leung; Samuel Kai Wah Chu – Journal of Computer Assisted Learning, 2024
Background: As the significance of artificial intelligence (AI) continues to increase, there is a need for effective scaffolding and support for novice learners. Educators have encountered challenges in effectively scaffolding novice learners AI concepts, and providing appropriate motivational support. Research evidence has shown the potential of…
Descriptors: Artificial Intelligence, Novices, Scaffolding (Teaching Technique), Game Based Learning