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Zeynep Gül Dertli; Bahadir Yildiz – Science Activities: Projects and Curriculum Ideas in STEM Classrooms, 2025
Engineering design practices in STEM education focus on reflecting the discipline-specific work of engineers in a manner that is suitable for the student level and course learning objectives. Using an engineering design context also facilitates student identification of global problems and feasible solutions to address such problems. In this…
Descriptors: STEM Education, Middle Schools, Engineering Education, Design
Cangül Simsek Esen; Rezan Yilmaz – Online Submission, 2024
Similarity is a crucial concept introduced in the 8th grade, and it is further developed and reinforced through associations during high school. This research aims to investigate how 8th grade students construct the concept of similarity using concrete manipulative support within the framework of APOS theory. The research was conducted as a…
Descriptors: Concept Formation, Manipulative Materials, Grade 8, Proximity
Ogün Bi?lge; Yüksel Dede – International Journal for Lesson and Learning Studies, 2024
Purpose: This study aimed to determine the expectations of students from mathematics teachers in the planning phase of lesson study (LS) in mathematics classrooms. Design/methodology/approach: This study reported only a part of large-scale action research. The participants were Grade 8 students selected by the convenience sampling method. The data…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Student Attitudes, Expectation, Mathematics Teachers
Alev Gunes Uzun – International Electronic Journal of Mathematics Education, 2024
Mathematical reasoning has been a critical concern in Turkey especially since the structure of the student selection examination for high schools changed six years ago. The ability to solve the questions in the new exam requires high level reasoning and argumentation skills. Schools, whether they are public or private, prepare 8th graders for this…
Descriptors: Mathematics Instruction, Persuasive Discourse, Grade 8, Public Schools
Gönül Erhan; Oguzhan Dogan; Çigdem Haser – Turkish Journal of Education, 2024
The aim of this study is to develop a theoretically sound, valid, and reliable scale to examine seventh and eighth grade students' attitudes towards so-called skill-based mathematics questions (SBMQ). The sample of the study was 820 seventh and eighth grade students at three different middle schools in Etimesgut District of Ankara Province. A…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Grade 7, Grade 8, Student Attitudes
Bedirhan Teke; Recai Akkaya – Pedagogical Research, 2024
Considering the negative situations faced by the migrating societies, it is known that the language and culture factors exert a stronger influence on the mathematics course than the other undesirable conditions. From this perspective, it is known that the mathematical performance of individuals is likely to increase by placing the concept of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Immigrants, Mathematics Skills, Numeracy
Musa Sadak – European Educational Research Journal, 2025
This study focused on the relationships between teacher characteristics and students' mathematics achievement in EU countries, including Hungary, Italy, Lithuania, Malta, Slovenia, Sweden, and Turkey, which are the only EU countries participated in TIMSS 2015 at the eighth-grade level. The data consisted of the sample of 31,969 eighth-grade…
Descriptors: Teacher Characteristics, Predictor Variables, Mathematics Achievement, Foreign Countries
Seyda Zengin; Emrullah Erdem – Acta Educationis Generalis, 2024
This study aims to reveal the mathematical reasoning process of 8th-grade students and the reasoning indicators they use in this process. The study was carried out in line with the data obtained from the Mathematical Reasoning Test (MRT) administered to 292 8th-grade students. The mathematical reasoning performances of the participants were…
Descriptors: Middle School Students, Middle School Mathematics, Thinking Skills, Mathematics Skills
Zübeyde Çiçek; Murat Genç – Journal of Inquiry Based Activities, 2024
The purpose of this study is to develop a lesson plan that will facilitate the instruction of socioscientific issues and the acquisition of twenty-first century skills. To this end, a lesson plan comprising four hours of instruction was devised and presented in comprehensive detail. Three distinct activities were devised and executed as part of…
Descriptors: Lesson Plans, Science and Society, 21st Century Skills, Nuclear Energy
Hasan Gökçe; Oguzhan Nacaroglu; Seyide Eroglu – Science Activities: Projects and Curriculum Ideas in STEM Classrooms, 2024
Within the scope of the current study, the researchers developed activities for middle school students to raise their awareness on the harm of plastics and microplastics, which are detrimental to nature and living things. In addition, through the activities developed, the study aimed to provide students with knowledge of and experience with…
Descriptors: Middle School Students, Plastics, Hazardous Materials, Grade 8
Pelin Yildirim; Gonca Keçeci; Fikriye Kirbag Zengin – International Journal of Assessment Tools in Education, 2024
This study aims to develop a knowledge test to assess secondary school students' awareness of scientists. After determining the topics that the questions in the test would measure, 50 multiple-choice questions were prepared and presented to six experts in the field. Following the experts' feedback, the number of questions in the test was reduced…
Descriptors: Knowledge Level, Student Evaluation, Test Construction, Scientists
Gürsel Aktas; Hilal Aktamis; Emrah Higde – International Journal of Technology in Education and Science, 2024
This study was conducted to investigate whether the STEM career interests and innovation skill levels of 8th grade students differ significantly according to some demographic variables. The research was the correlational model. The data of the study were collected from a total of 1427 students from 20 different schools in five randomly selected…
Descriptors: Grade 8, Secondary School Students, STEM Careers, Student Characteristics
Niymet Bahsi; Ayse Ates – International Journal of Education and Literacy Studies, 2024
Reading, which improves language and mental skills, is the most effective way to reach information from the past to the present. The study tried to determine the relationship between the metacognitive reading awareness, reading intrinsic motivations, and reading motivations of eighth-grade students. The study group consists of 132 eighth-grade…
Descriptors: Correlation, Reading Motivation, Reading Strategies, Metacognition
Munise Seçkin Kapucu; I?brahim Özcan; Hülya Özcan; Ahmet Aypay – International Journal of Technology in Education and Science, 2024
Our research aims to predict students' academic performance by considering the variables affecting academic performance in science courses using the deep learning method from machine learning algorithms and to determine the importance of independent variables affecting students' academic performance in science courses. 445 students from 5th, 6th,…
Descriptors: Secondary School Students, Science Achievement, Artificial Intelligence, Foreign Countries
Aysegül Derman; Figen Gunes; Ozcan Gulacar; Ingo Eilks – Chemistry Education Research and Practice, 2024
This study aims to determine the cognitive structures of students at different educational levels (8th grade and 12th grade) related to acid-base chemistry. The research was designed as a case study and structured in two stages. The first stage analyzed concepts related to acid-base chemistry and their direction and strength in students' knowledge…
Descriptors: Chemistry, Science Instruction, Cognitive Structures, Grade 8