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Akaygun, Sevil; Adadan, Emine – Education 3-13, 2021
This quasi-experimental study explored the impact of inquiry-based instruction on students' conceptions of climate change and their perceptions of science learning environment. A total of 68 senior primary school students participated into the study. Data sources included Questionnaire on Global Climate Change and Constructivist Learning…
Descriptors: Elementary School Students, Student Attitudes, Preadolescents, Grade 6
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Bozdogan, Aykut Emre; Durukan, Ümmü Gülsüm; Hacioglu, Yasemin – Participatory Educational Research, 2018
This study aimed at in-depth examination of middle school students' perceptions about the scientists. The study was carried out with survey model. The data of the study were gathered via "Questionnaire for Evaluation of Scientists (QES)" and focus group interviews. The data were analysed quantitatively and the quantitative data were…
Descriptors: Middle School Students, Student Attitudes, Scientists, Middle Schools
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Gülen, Salih – Journal of Technology and Science Education, 2018
One of the tools that indicate the relationship between concepts is the volume of concept. Volume of concept is displayed that the relations between the concepts of the subject are exhibited in a meaningful harmonious and circular manner in a certain order. The purpose of this research; to be able to determine the usefulness volume of concept,…
Descriptors: Scientific Concepts, Mixed Methods Research, Structured Interviews, Concept Formation
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Yanik, Mehmet – Education Sciences, 2018
The aim of this study is to determine the effect of participation in school sports teams of students studying in middle school on their levels of school engagement. The relational screening model was used in the study. The study group of the research consisted of a total of 610 students selected by the random sampling method and studying at middle…
Descriptors: Middle School Students, Athletics, Learner Engagement, Grade 5
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Diken, Emine Hatun – International Journal of Curriculum and Instruction, 2020
This study aims to scrutinise the cognitive and metacognitive strategies of the 6th-grade students while answering multiple-choice questions on "Human Body Systems" within the domain of their Biology course. In determining these strategies, the characteristics of multiple-choice questions (figures, graphs, explanations, etc.) were also…
Descriptors: Metacognition, Cognitive Processes, Human Body, Biology
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Acar, Ömer – Pegem Journal of Education and Instruction, 2020
Science achievement gap between fifth, sixth, and eighth grades and boys and girls in low and high performing schools were under investigation in the present study. In accordance with this purpose, three schools were selected to represent high performing schools and two schools were selected to represent low achieving schools for their performance…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Instructional Program Divisions, Elementary School Students, Middle School Students
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Sügümlü, Üzeyir; Mutlu, Hasan Hüseyin; Çinpolat, Enes – International Electronic Journal of Elementary Education, 2019
The aim of this study was to determine the relationship between the writing motivation levels and written expression skills among secondary school students. The study was carried out using the correlational research model of the quantitative research methods. The study group for this study consisted of 230 students attending three different…
Descriptors: Correlation, Writing Skills, Student Motivation, Writing Evaluation
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Thijs, Jochem; Keim, Abigail C.; Geerlings, Jolien – British Journal of Educational Psychology, 2019
Background: Many studies have shown that school belonging is crucial for students' school adjustment, but the construct has been operationalized in different ways. Moreover, most research has focused on adolescents and not compared its antecedents for ethnic minority versus majority students. Aims: Based on Goodenow and Grady's (1993) seminal…
Descriptors: Minority Group Students, Ethnicity, Grade 4, Grade 5
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Cakir, Nevin Kozcu; Guven, Gokhan – Science Activities: Projects and Curriculum Ideas in STEM Classrooms, 2019
The purpose of the current study is to design and develop an Arduino-assisted robotic and coding activity in compliance with the 5E learning model for middle school students to construct knowledge and realize learning in science teaching. The study was conducted on 6th grade students attending a private middle school in Turkey in the second term…
Descriptors: Robotics, Coding, Middle School Students, Science Instruction
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Benek, Ibrahim; Akcay, Behiye – International Journal of Education in Mathematics, Science and Technology, 2019
The aim of this study is to develop a valid and reliable attitude scale that could measure secondary school students' attitudes towards the Science-Technology-Engineering and Mathematics (STEM). This study was conducted in 2017-2018 academic year with 2500 secondary school students studying in the 5th, 6th, 7th and 8th grades from fifteen (15)…
Descriptors: STEM Education, Secondary School Students, Student Attitudes, Test Reliability
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Bugdayci, Selçuk – Universal Journal of Educational Research, 2019
This study is a descriptive research study, which was conducted to determine personal and social responsibility levels of secondary school students. The research group is comprised of 602 (285 females, 317 males) students who are studying at the state schools under the Directorate of National Education in Konya Province. In obtaining the research…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Secondary School Students, Student Responsibility, Social Responsibility
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Vekli, Gulsah Sezen – Pedagogical Research, 2021
This study determines perceptions of middle school students' inquiry learning skills towards science change according to different variables. In line with purpose, it aims to realize what should be done to develop this perception by questioning the factors that affect students' perceptions of science-related inquiry skills and contribute to the…
Descriptors: Middle School Students, Student Attitudes, Inquiry, Science Instruction
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Özkan, Yesim Özer; Güvendir, Meltem Acar – Journal of Pedagogical Research, 2021
Large scale assessment is conducted at different class levels for various purposes such as identifying student success in education, observing the impacts of educational reforms on student achievement, assessment, selection, and placement. It is expected that these tests and their items are used in education do not display different traits with…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Test Bias, Student Evaluation, Test Items
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Zorlu, Yusuf; Sezek, Fatih – International Journal of Progressive Education, 2020
The aim of this study was to investigate the effects of the applying the cooperative learning model and the modeling based teaching method together in teaching the subjects "Matter and Heat" and "The Particle Structure and Properties of Matter" on students' academic achievement and science process skills. A quasi-experimental…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Science Process Skills, Thinking Skills, Skill Development
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Özkanbas, Müge; Kirik, Özgecan Tastan – Chemistry Education Research and Practice, 2020
Process Oriented Guided Inquiry Learning (POGIL®) as a collaborative inquiry method has been widely used in teaching chemistry to high school and college students. This paper presents the impact of POGIL on 65 middle school students' understanding about nature of matter. It is a quasi-experimental non-equivalent control group design study in which…
Descriptors: Cooperative Learning, Active Learning, Inquiry, Metacognition
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