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Searle, Michelle J.; Kirkpatrick, Lori C.; Smyth, Rachael E.; Paolini, Michela – Assessment Matters, 2018
This study examines the summative-assessment practices used for a one-to-one programme where all teachers and students in grades 7 to 9 across an entire district were provided with iPads. Data were gathered from 61 teachers who participated in a blended-learning case study. This article addresses how the presence of one-to-one technology, in the…
Descriptors: Summative Evaluation, Handheld Devices, Grade 7, Grade 8
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Lapointe, Alicia Anne – Journal of LGBT Youth, 2015
This qualitative study captures the experiences of four straight allies' and one gay youth involvement in gay--straight alliances (GSAs) at their Ontario, Canada, high schools. Participants' motivations for becoming GSA members and their roles as allies are examined. Queer theoretical perspectives, as espoused by Britzman (1995, 1998) and Linville…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Homosexuality, Social Bias, High School Students
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Shanahan, Marie-Claire; Nieswandt, Martina – Journal of Research in Science Teaching, 2011
Sociocultural studies of science education have consistently recognized the dialectic nature of students' agency to create and author positions for themselves and the structural constraints that may influence them. This mixed-methods study explores one particular aspect of these potential constraints: the possibility of a social structure specific…
Descriptors: Evidence, Student Behavior, Student Attitudes, Student Role