NotesFAQContact Us
Collection
Advanced
Search Tips
Laws, Policies, & Programs
Equal Access1
What Works Clearinghouse Rating
Showing 661 to 675 of 731 results Save | Export
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
Direct linkDirect link
Guven, Bulent – Australasian Journal of Educational Technology, 2012
This study examines the effect of dynamic geometry software (DGS) on students' learning of transformation geometry. A pre- and post-test quasi-experimental design was used. Participants in the study were 68 eighth grade students (36 in the experimental group and 32 in the control group). While the experimental group students were studying the…
Descriptors: Experimental Groups, Control Groups, Quasiexperimental Design, Achievement Tests
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
PDF on ERIC Download full text
Guzeller, Cem Oktay – Educational Sciences: Theory and Practice, 2012
In this research, the relationship between written exam scores of science and technology class of 6th, 7th, and 8th grades, project, participation in class activities and performance work, year-end academic success point averages and sub-test raw scores of LDT science of 6th, 7th and 8th grades. Academic success point averages were used as…
Descriptors: Science Education, Technology Education, Scores, Tests
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
PDF on ERIC Download full text
Ongun, Erdem; Atlas, Dilek; Demirag, Askin – Turkish Online Journal of Educational Technology - TOJET, 2011
The study aims at evaluating the perceptions of 8th graders towards the use of information technologies ranging from the internet and multimedia tools in socio-cultural perspective of creativity while they are doing their homework in the light of the National Education Ministry's regulation related to elementary and secondary school students'…
Descriptors: Homework, Creativity, Student Attitudes, Information Technology
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
PDF on ERIC Download full text
Arslan, Hasan; Çanli, Murat; Sabo, Helena Maria – Acta Didactica Napocensia, 2012
Recent studies in math education focus on differences between behaviors and performances of male and female students. In this study, achievement and attitudes of middle school students to math were described in terms of gender and grade differences. The aim of this study is to determine whether any differences exist between female and male…
Descriptors: Student Attitudes, Mathematics Achievement, Gender Differences, Mathematics Education
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
PDF on ERIC Download full text
Tasdemir, Adem – Educational Sciences: Theory and Practice, 2012
Reflecting effective and psychomotor skills to teaching environment are as important as cognitive skills in learning process. In this context, values are important to develop skills in affective domain. In this study, the opinions of the students who have been studying in three different countries (Iraq, Saudi Arabia, Turkey) were aimed to be…
Descriptors: Student Attitudes, Teaching Methods, Foreign Countries, Opinions
Birgin, Osman – Online Submission, 2012
This study aimed to investigate eighth-grade students' difficulties and misconceptions and their performance of translation between the different representation modes related to the slope of linear functions. The participants were 115 Turkish eighth-grade students in a city in the eastern part of the Black Sea region of Turkey. Data was collected…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Middle School Students, Grade 8, Secondary School Mathematics
Bozdogan, Aykut Emre; Uzoglu, Mustafa – Online Submission, 2012
The purpose of this study is to develop a reliable and a valid scale to determine the attitudes of the primary students towards tablet PC. The items of the scale were determined by scanning the relevant literature and taking the opinions of the experts. The first draft of the scale including 49 items as a result of content reliability was applied…
Descriptors: Test Construction, Attitude Measures, Student Attitudes, Elementary School Students
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
Direct linkDirect link
Teksan, Keziban – Educational Research and Reviews, 2012
The aim of this study was to determine the effect of the writing anxiety that is one of the factors affecting the written expression skills of secondary school students according to several variables. Population of the study consisted of students studying in the 6th, 7th and 8th grade of secondary schools in Canakkale in the academic year of 2011…
Descriptors: Statistical Analysis, Academic Achievement, Secondary School Students, Writing Apprehension
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
PDF on ERIC Download full text
Akarsu, Bayram – European Journal of Physics Education, 2011
Hands-on activities are one of the most popular instructional tools that enhance student understandings of the science concepts and enable them to get involved in science practices as well. However, most of science educators underestimate its effectiveness in the classrooms. In order to illustrate how these activities could be utilized for science…
Descriptors: Science Instruction, Hands on Science, Science Experiments, Scientific Concepts
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
PDF on ERIC Download full text
Bilican, Safiye; Demirtasli, R. Nukhet; Kilmen, Sevilay – Educational Sciences: Theory and Practice, 2011
The purpose of this study was to determine whether the attitudes of the students who participated in the application within the context of TIMSS 1999 and 2007 projects towards the "Maths course" and their opinions about "teaching activities in Maths course" had changed according to the mentioned years or not. The sample of…
Descriptors: Opinions, Multiple Choice Tests, Cooperative Learning, Tests
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
Direct linkDirect link
Ozdemir, H.; Alper, Z.; Uncu, Y.; Bilgel, N. – Health Education Research, 2010
Patients' health literacy is increasingly recognized as a critical factor affecting health communication and outcomes. We performed this study to assess the levels of health literacy by using Rapid Estimate of Adult Literacy in Medicine (REALM) and Newest Vital Sign (NVS) instruments. Patients (n = 456) at a family medicine clinic completed…
Descriptors: Comprehensive School Health Education, Translation, Educational Attainment, Family Practice (Medicine)
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
PDF on ERIC Download full text
Karakaya, Ismail – Educational Sciences: Theory and Practice, 2012
The aim of this study is to determine the items in Science and Technology and Mathematics subtests of 6th, 7th, and 8th grades in the 2009 LDE, which was performed to select the students for the secondary schools, exhibited item bias with regard to student gender. Mantel-Haenszel (MH) method was used in order to determine the differential item…
Descriptors: Test Bias, Grade 6, Grade 7, Grade 8
Korkmaz, Hunkar – Online Submission, 2011
The purpose of this qualitative study was to examine how stories about science and scientists, presented over a 5 week period, influence grade eight students' images of biological science and scientists. The study included 151 students for pretreatment and 121 students for post treatment, with age range 14-15 years from an urban area. Data sources…
Descriptors: Biological Sciences, Scientists, Imagery, Qualitative Research
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
Direct linkDirect link
Ulusoy, Kadir – Educational Research and Reviews, 2011
In this study, whether the multimedia in the history lesson affects the students' attitude towards this lesson or not has been studied. With this object, whether there is a difference among the point averages that students take from the preliminary test and whether there is a difference among the point averages that students take from the last…
Descriptors: Experimental Groups, Control Groups, Student Attitudes, Multimedia Instruction
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
Direct linkDirect link
Silman, Fatos; Caglar, Mehmet – International Review of Education, 2010
Cyprus is a Mediterranean island divided into two political sections. For political agreement to be possible between the North (Turkish) and South (Greek), Cyprus should give full consideration to citizenship education at schools with the aim of transmitting shared values and helping students become EU citizens. In this research, two citizenship…
Descriptors: Citizenship, Textbooks, Democracy, Citizenship Education
Pages: 1  |  ...  |  39  |  40  |  41  |  42  |  43  |  44  |  45  |  46  |  47  |  48  |  49