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Embedding Sustainability Instruction across Content Areas: Best Classroom Practices from Informal Environmental Education
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Walker, Ryan; Clary, Renee M.; Wissehr, Cathy – Journal of Geoscience Education, 2017
Environmental education (EE) facilitates students' scientific and environmental literacy, and addresses content areas including sustainability, ecology, and civic responsibility. However, U.S. science content compartmentalization and EE's interdisciplinary nature historically made it a fragmented curriculum within U.S. schools. To gain a better…
Descriptors: Environmental Education, Sustainability, Teaching Methods, Ecology
Effects of I Can Learn (ICL) on the Attitudes and Academic Achievement of Eighth Grade Math Students in Two Rural Tennessee School Districts
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Woods, Courtney S. – ProQuest LLC, 2012
The purpose of this study was to determine if the use of an online mathematics program, I CAN Learn (ICL), impacted the attitudes and academic achievement of eighth grade students in rural Tennessee. This study was accomplished through the use of quantitative and qualitative data including attitude surveys, interviews, and observations of…
Descriptors: Mathematics Instruction, Electronic Learning, Mathematics Achievement, Junior High School Students
Effect of Digital Portfolio Assessment on Mathematics Attitudes and Self-Perceptions of Sixth- through Eighth-Grade Students
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Reynolds, Betty Gulin – ProQuest LLC, 2010
The purpose of this study was to determine to what extent digital portfolios would affect mathematics achievement, attitudes, and self-perceptions of themselves as mathematics learners of sixth-, seventh-, and eighth-grade students. The study analyzed the effect of digital portfolios on the students' performance on the Iowa Test of Basic Skills.…
Descriptors: Portfolios (Background Materials), Student Attitudes, Portfolio Assessment, Measures (Individuals)
The Effects of Participation versus Non-Participation in Interscholastic Sports on Achievement
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Coleman, Jewell J. – ProQuest LLC, 2010
Research indicates that participation in interscholastic sports may not affect student academic achievement and self-esteem. The purpose of this study was to determine the effects of participation versus non-participation in interscholastic sports on the academic achievement and self-esteem of eighth grade students. Reading and math achievement…
Descriptors: Extramural Athletics, Student Attitudes, Self Concept Measures, Statistical Significance
Identification with School.
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Voelkl, Kristin E. – American Journal of Education, 1997
Compared students' identification with school relative to academic achievement and classroom participation among 1,335 White and African American students. Results found that African American and female students had higher levels of identification than did White and male students, respectively, but their positive feelings were not attributable to…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Black Students, Class Activities, Comparative Analysis
The Web Pen Pals Project: Students' Perceptions of a Learning Community in an Online Synchronous Environment
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Maples, Joellen; Groenke, Susan; Dunlap, Dan – Journal of Interactive Online Learning, 2005
This paper draws on data gathered from a five-month phenomenological study of middle school students' perceptions of the effects of computer-based technologies on a learning community in an online synchronous environment. Twenty-four eighth-grade students participated in the Web Pen Pals project, a university-secondary telecollaborative…
Descriptors: Middle School Students, Student Attitudes, Web Based Instruction, Phenomenology