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Nourse, David – ProQuest LLC, 2017
Recent estimates show nearly 90% of school districts nationwide offer some form of online credit recovery. Additionally, credit recovery services have become one of the fastest growing areas of educational software. Despite the widespread adoption of these programs, there is a lack of scholarly research on the effectiveness, rigor, and suitability…
Descriptors: Online Courses, Repetition, Required Courses, Academic Achievement
Sweet, TeCora Lashon – ProQuest LLC, 2017
The functional curriculum is a beneficial curriculum for education students with intellectual disabilities. Special education teachers have transitioned from spending most of their academic time using the functional curriculum to spending more time teaching the additional academic content material. There are numerous research studies focusing on…
Descriptors: Intellectual Disability, Communication Skills, Special Education Teachers, Knowledge Base for Teaching
Carney, Eve; Fisher, Alexandria; Glass, Jamie – ProQuest LLC, 2017
While districts and schools continue to place more emphasis on personalized instruction and tiers of literacy interventions, more students are continuing to reach middle school without the ability to read on grade level. Much of the emphasis on the attainment of literacy skills occurs in the elementary grades. As a result, middle grades' literacy…
Descriptors: Middle School Students, Literacy Education, Statistical Analysis, Teaching Methods
Glass, Jamie; Carney, Eve; Fisher, Alexandria – ProQuest LLC, 2017
While districts and schools continue to place more emphasis on personalized instruction and tiers of literacy interventions, more students are continuing to reach middle school without the ability to read on grade level. Much of the emphasis on the attainment of literacy skills occurs in the elementary grades. As a result, middle grades' literacy…
Descriptors: Middle School Students, Literacy Education, Statistical Analysis, Teaching Methods
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Thornberg, Robert; Pozzoli, Tiziana; Gianluca, Gini; Jungert, Tomas – Elementary School Journal, 2015
The first aim of the present study was to examine in a single model how moral disengagement and moral emotions were related to bullying and defending behavior among schoolchildren. The second aim was to test whether the two moral dimensions interacted with each other to explain behavior in bullying situations. Data were collected from 561 Swedish…
Descriptors: Bullying, Child Behavior, Moral Values, Emotional Response
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Opitz, Sebastian T.; Harms, Ute; Neumann, Knut; Kowalzik, Kristin; Frank, Arne – Research in Science Education, 2015
Energy is considered both a core idea and a crosscutting concept in science education. A thorough understanding of the energy concept is thought to help students learn about other (related) concepts within and across science subjects, thereby fostering scientific literacy. This study investigates students' progression in understanding the energy…
Descriptors: Energy, Scientific Concepts, Science Education, Concept Formation
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Seker, Mustafa; Ilhan, Genç Osman – Educational Research and Reviews, 2015
Just like it is the reflex of each nation to teach its own history to the next generations, it is essential that our country is also able to identify the sufficiency level of the Turkish history within the framework of developing a programme. Through this study, the parallelism between the social studies teaching programme within the education…
Descriptors: Teacher Attitudes, History, Social Studies, Questionnaires
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Chiffriller, Sheila H.; Kangos, Kelsey A.; Milone, Lisa – Journal of School Counseling, 2015
Social exclusion and the behaviors, thoughts, and feelings it evokes in children were examined in the present study. Two forms of exclusion were identified: being rejected and being ignored. Surveys were administered to third and fifth grade students in a Northeastern suburb in the United States to see how children respond overall and if younger…
Descriptors: Elementary School Students, Grade 3, Grade 5, Student Surveys
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Boyraz, Sirin; Ozbar, Nurper; Yetgin, Meral Kucuk; Koksalan, Burke – Educational Research and Reviews, 2015
A total of 437 volunteers including 54 teachers, 218 6th grade students and 102 parents from Beykoz Elementary Schools participated in this study to understand the perspectives of students, families and teachers on Physical Education classes. The perspectives of students, families and teachers of other branches are identified by survey method.…
Descriptors: Elementary School Students, Grade 6, Physical Education, Student Attitudes
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Koparan, Timur; Güven, Bülent – International Journal of Mathematical Education in Science and Technology, 2015
The point of this study is to define the effect of project-based learning approach on 8th Grade secondary-school students' statistical literacy levels for data representation. To achieve this goal, a test which consists of 12 open-ended questions in accordance with the views of experts was developed. Seventy 8th grade secondary-school students, 35…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Middle School Students, Grade 8, Student Projects
Ramful, Ajay; Lowrie, Tom – Mathematics Education Research Group of Australasia, 2015
This study investigated potential gender differences in a sample of 807 Year 6 Singaporean students in relation to two variables: spatial visualisation ability and cognitive style. In contrast to the general trend, overall there were no significant gender differences on spatial visualisation ability. However, gender differences were prevalent…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Spatial Ability, Visualization, Cognitive Style
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Salah, Raed Omar – Journal of Education and Practice, 2016
The study aims to identify the effect of using computerized based education on Eighth grade achievement in Math. In addition the study aims to identify the effect of gender on students' achievement who received computerized education. The study was based on the selection of students from two schools in Ma'an City one for females and the other for…
Descriptors: Grade 8, Mathematics, Mathematics Instruction, Mathematics Curriculum
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Smith, Carmen Petrick; Kenlan, Kris – Mathematics Teaching in the Middle School, 2016
Students' experiences with statistics and data analysis in middle school are often limited to little more than making and interpreting graphs. Although students may develop fluency in statistical procedures and vocabulary, they frequently lack the skills necessary to apply statistical reasoning in situations other than clear-cut textbook examples.…
Descriptors: Mathematics Instruction, Middle School Students, Secondary School Mathematics, Statistical Analysis
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Praneetham, Chuleewan; Thathong, Kongsak – Turkish Online Journal of Educational Technology - TOJET, 2016
Technological education and instruction are widely used in the present education trend. Using of digital instruction for environmental subject can encourage students in learning and raise their awareness and attitude on environmental issues. The purposes of this research were: 1) to construct and develop the digital instruction for environment for…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Environmental Education, Climate, Computer Assisted Instruction
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Langheinrich, Jessica; Schönfelder, Mona; Bogner, Franz X. – Journal of Educational Computing Research, 2016
A positive self-concept supposedly affects a student's well-being as well as his or her perception of individual competence at school. As computer-based learning is becoming increasingly important in school, a positive computer-related self-concept (CSC) might help to enhance cognitive achievement. Consequently, we focused on establishing a short,…
Descriptors: Self Concept, Computer Literacy, Grade 8, Grade 11
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