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Direct linkYildiz Durak, Hatice; Saritepeci, Mustafa; Durak, Aykut – Technology, Knowledge and Learning, 2023
Computational thinking skill is one of the basic skills required for every individual, such as reading and writing. For the development of CT, programming education is seen as the key. In the context of programming and CT relationship, it is very important to model individual characteristics and various affective variables with a holistic approach…
Descriptors: Computation, Thinking Skills, Programming, Individual Characteristics
Hice-Fromille, Theresa; London, Rebecca A. – Youth & Society, 2023
Although scholars are attuned to the particular transitional dilemmas faced by middle school students, inquiry into middle school breaktimes is largely limited to research on bullying and peer victimization. This study interrogates the geography of middle school breaktime to expand understanding of student safety and recognize the ways that the…
Descriptors: Middle School Students, Recess Breaks, Safety, Student Development
Kaynak, Ümre; Kaynak, Semih; Sevgili Koçak, Seda – RMLE Online: Research in Middle Level Education, 2023
While it is well established that positive peer relationships lead to positive outcomes, little is known about the mediating role of school motivation on the association between perceived peer support and school achievement among middle grades students. Even less is known about the effect of gender on this mediation. The current study examined…
Descriptors: Peer Relationship, Academic Achievement, Gender Differences, Student Motivation
Jason Hamilton – ProQuest LLC, 2023
Mississippi middle schools frequently fail to improve the intellectual capacity of students who struggle in mathematics. The purpose of this quantitative causal-comparative non-experimental research design was to investigate the impact of math academic interventions on rural Mississippi middle school mathematics students in grades six through…
Descriptors: Middle School Students, Mathematics Education, Low Achievement, Intervention
Denair Rochelle Thomas-Hutton – ProQuest LLC, 2020
The purpose of this study was to examine the relationship between teachers' perceptions of the use of CAI to teach academics to their students diagnosed with level 1 autism. In addition, how teachers determined other strategies to use with their students was investigated. Most of the current literature reviewed was geared towards the use of CAI to…
Descriptors: Middle School Students, Middle School Teachers, Teacher Attitudes, Computer Assisted Instruction
Jianzhong Xu – European Journal of Psychology of Education, 2024
The present study investigated multilevel models posited to predict student approaches to homework. Participants were 1,072 middle school students in China. Results revealed that deep and surface approaches were positively associated with performance-approach. Furthermore, deep approach to homework was associated negatively with homework cost, yet…
Descriptors: Homework, Hierarchical Linear Modeling, Predictor Variables, Middle School Students
Grace Skrzypiec; Mirella Wyra; Cigdem Topcu-Uzer; Iwona Sikorska; Damanjit Sandhu; Eva M. Romera; Dorit Olenik-Shemesh; Miguel Nery; Christián Denisse Navarro-Rodríguez; Kirill Khlomov; Melike Kavuk-Kalender; Tali Heiman; Annalisa Guarini; Eleni Didaskalou; Carmel Cefai; Antonella Brighi; Monica Bravo-Sanzana; Alexandra Bochaver; Sheri Bauman; Eleni Andreou; Ulil Amri – School Mental Health, 2024
As the COVID-19 (SARS-CoV-2) virus spread across the world, countries took drastic measures to counter the disease by requiring their citizens to home self-isolate i.e., lockdown. While it was not known how young people would cope with the social distancing restrictions, there was concern that the lockdown would have a debilitating effect on youth…
Descriptors: Global Approach, Foreign Countries, Educational Research, Well Being
Download full textOsman Erol; Osman Aköz; Raziye Güngör – International Journal of Technology in Education, 2024
The aim of this study is to examine the relationship between middle school students' attitudes towards robotic coding and their STEM career interests. For this purpose, data were collected from a total of 213 students studying in three different secondary schools in a province in the south of Turkey. The "STEM Career Interest" scale and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Middle School Students, Student Attitudes, Robotics
Kelly L. Simonton; Tristan Wallhead; Ben D. Kern – Journal of Teaching in Physical Education, 2024
Purpose: Despite evidence regarding emotions' impact on learners, there remains a paucity of research examining the relationships between student emotions and achievement within contemporary instructional models. Grounded in the Control-Value Theory of Achievement Emotions, changes in middle school students' motivational beliefs, emotions, and…
Descriptors: Middle School Students, Emotional Experience, Cognitive Processes, Achievement
Marcus Leake – ProQuest LLC, 2024
This study explored teacher and student perspectives on mandated school uniforms. Debate exists over the appropriateness of uniforms, with some stakeholders suggesting positive outcomes while others bemoan limits on student expression. This study sought to fill a gap in research specific to middle school uniform use by exploring teachers' and…
Descriptors: Junior High Schools, Middle Schools, Public Schools, Suburban Schools
Buket Turhan-Türkkan; Betül Karaduman; Nihan Arslan-Namli; Memet Karakus – International Journal of Contemporary Educational Research, 2024
The purpose of this research was to identify the need for gender equality education. For this purpose, the views of mathematics, science, and information technology teachers on the current situation of gender equality in schools were determined. In addition, the awareness of sixth, seventh and eighth grade middle school students on gender equality…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Gender Differences, Needs Assessment, Sex Fairness
Jianzhong Xu – Psychology in the Schools, 2024
This study aimed to examine multilevel models posited to predict student perceptions of teacher feedback quality. A cross-sectional survey design was used, involving 1072 middle school students. We incorporated two clusters of variables: (a) student characteristics (gender, prior knowledge, parent education, homework expectancy, homework value,…
Descriptors: Student Attitudes, Feedback (Response), Educational Quality, Homework
Matt Peck – ProQuest LLC, 2024
This dissertation includes three individual articles that explore the relationship between witnessing bullying and defending behavior among students who are bystanders of bullying. Chapter One provides the rationale and purpose of this dissertation and an overview of the three articles that comprise it. Chapter Two employed a cross-sectional…
Descriptors: Bullying, Victims, Elementary School Students, Middle School Students
Yeshiwas Dereb; Tadesse Melessse; Solomon Melesse – Education 3-13, 2025
This study explored the status of primary and middle school physical education (PE) teachers' professional knowledge competence (PKC) in the Amhara Region, in Ethiopia. For this, a quantitative research approach was employed and data were collected from 382 randomly selected PE teachers and analysed quantitatively. Findings revealed that the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Elementary School Teachers, Middle School Teachers, Physical Education Teachers
Allison Master; Taylor Alexander; Jennifer Thompson; Weihua Fan; Andrew N. Meltzoff; Sapna Cheryan – Journal of Research on Technology in Education, 2025
Motivating girls to enroll in computer science (CS) courses is critically important. Stereotypes that girls are less interested than boys in CS may deter girls. Three preregistered experimental studies (N = 1,053) examined causal links between gender-interest stereotypes and middle school students' CS motivation. Experiment 1 showed that…
Descriptors: Females, Womens Education, Middle School Students, Computer Science Education
