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Gray, Kathryn L.; Fouad, Khadija E. – Science & Education, 2019
This study examines the use of an explicit, reflective method for teaching the difference and relationship between scientific theories and laws to ninth-grade students. Students reflected individually and then as a whole class on theories and laws using a Venn diagram, both before and after reading short articles describing features of theories…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Scientific Principles, Science Instruction, Visual Aids
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Hallman-Thrasher, Allyson; Thompson, Jennifer; Heacock, Kayla; Chen, Lizhen – North American Chapter of the International Group for the Psychology of Mathematics Education, 2022
This study shares two frameworks for analyzing teacher actions that support students in generalizing and examines how those frameworks align with teacher questioning. One classroom teaching episode focused on the mathematical activity of generalizing is shared to illustrate effective generalizing promoting practices. We found several patterns of…
Descriptors: Correlation, Mathematics Instruction, Teacher Student Relationship, Questioning Techniques
Stringfellow, Andy F., Jr. – ProQuest LLC, 2018
The purpose of the first study was to develop and validate a new self-report survey used to determine the level of agentic, behavioral, cognitive, and emotional engagement of eighth and ninth grade boys and girls in physical education. Much of the development was driven by work completed by Reeve and Tseng (2011), and by Reeve (2013). Two hundred…
Descriptors: Physical Education, Learner Engagement, Factor Analysis, Grade 8