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Download full textSnežana Lješnjak; Danka Cakovic; Andrej Šorgo – Journal of Baltic Science Education, 2024
This study aimed to explore the familiarity with and opinions toward Education for Sustainable Development (ESD) among Montenegrin students at the end of their basic school years and upon entering upper-secondary school. The participants of the study were gathered in 2022, and the data were recorded via an online survey platform. The results were…
Descriptors: Secondary School Students, Familiarity, Knowledge Level, Thinking Skills
Direct linkJablansky, Sophie; Alexander, Patricia A.; Dumas, Denis; Compton, Vicki – Journal of Educational Psychology, 2016
Relational reasoning, the ability to discern meaningful patterns within a stream of information, is considered a critical capacity for students. However, little is known about how this ability is demonstrated by children of different ages in the context of discourse with a more knowledgeable other. Thus, this study sought to investigate the ways…
Descriptors: Developmental Stages, Age Differences, Middle School Students, High School Students
Avarogullari, Muhammet; Kolcu, Nurten – International Education Studies, 2016
The purpose of this study is to determine how students in a south-western province of Turkey employ historical significance which is one of the second order concepts of historical thinking. 44 11th and 12th grade students participated in the study. They were asked to identify the most significant 10 persons in the history and provide their reasons…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Student Attitudes, Historical Interpretation, Value Judgment
Mustofa; Yuwana, H. Setya – Journal of Education and Practice, 2016
Learning literature should be taken to instill recognition, familiarity and enjoyment of literature as a vehicle for character education. Learning literature must be packaged properly so that students interested in compose competence by developing literature learning models. In an effort to assist students in understanding the success of…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Discourse Analysis, Critical Thinking, Thinking Skills
Heitmann, Patricia; Hecht, Martin; Schwanewedel, Julia; Schipolowski, Stefan – International Journal of Science Education, 2014
The ability to build arguments is a crucial skill and a central educational goal in all school subjects including science as it enables students to formulate reasoned opinions and thus to cope with the increasing complexity of knowledge. In the present cross-sectional study, we examined the domain-specificity of argumentative writing in science by…
Descriptors: Writing Skills, Persuasive Discourse, Secondary School Students, Correlation
Shearer, Adrienne E. H.; Snider, O. Sue; Kniel, Kalmia E. – Journal of Food Science Education, 2013
With the persistence of microbiological foodborne illness and anticipated future shortage of scientists with agricultural and food science expertise in the United States, it is imperative to educate youth on microbiological food safety and enhance their awareness of opportunities to become engaged in finding solutions to food safety challenges. To…
Descriptors: Food Standards, Safety, Microbiology, Secondary Education
Ghent, Cynthia; Parmer, Giavanna; Haines, Sarah – Research in Higher Education Journal, 2013
This study sought to determine whether a secondary level curricular model based on enhancing knowledge and awareness of global forest issues would have an effect on students' self-perceived knowledge of forest issues, actual content knowledge of these issues, and pro-environmental attitudes. The study instrument is the secondary module…
Descriptors: Learning Modules, Environmental Education, Environmental Research, Forestry
Bataineh, Osamah; Alazzi, Khaled F. – International Education, 2009
The purpose of this study was to discover themes or concepts, generated from the collected data, that formed building blocks of grounded theory in the study of secondary school social studies teachers' perspectives. This research study was conducted in Jordan, where secondary school social studies teachers were interviewed regarding their…
Descriptors: Grounded Theory, Foreign Countries, Critical Thinking, Thinking Skills
Alazzi, Khaled F. – Social Studies, 2008
The author conducted research in Jordan, where he interviewed secondary school social studies teachers about their perspectives on teaching critical-thinking skills in their classrooms. All interviews were audiotaped or videotaped in Arabic and later translated into English. The author qualitatively analyzed data, including the translations of the…
Descriptors: Familiarity, Foreign Countries, Critical Thinking, Thinking Skills
