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Meredith G. O'Leary – ProQuest LLC, 2024
This study focused on a problem of practice at Mystic River School (MRS), a kindergarten through eighth grade school in an urban district in New England. Schoolwide diagnostic data showed a significant gap between multilingual learners (MLs) and their native English speaking peers in literacy. An analysis of this data, interviews with staff and…
Descriptors: Self Efficacy, Multilingualism, Bilingual Students, Literacy
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Jeannette Mancilla-Martinez; Min Hyun Oh; Gigi Luk; Adam Rollins – Journal of Learning Disabilities, 2024
Using U.S. state-level data, we report unadjusted and adjusted odds ratio of special education (SPED) trends in Tennessee from 2009 to 2019 for students in Grades 3 to 8 by three language groups: native English speakers (NES), English-proficient bilinguals (EPB), and Current English learners (Current EL). We report trends across all SPED…
Descriptors: Special Education, Educational Trends, Elementary School Students, Grade 3
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Harlan, Jessica; Van Haneghan, James – Journal of Pre-College Engineering Education Research, 2020
As part of a longitudinal study of the development and implementation of a middle school engineering design curriculum, we have used an occupational values subscale of the Assessing Men and Women in Engineering (AWE) project's Engineering version of the Core Survey for Middle School-Aged Participants to measure student occupational interest in…
Descriptors: Engineering, Technical Occupations, Middle School Students, Values
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Akcay, Hakan; Kapici, Hasan Ozgur; Akcay, Behiye – Participatory Educational Research, 2020
Textbooks are one of the primary sources for students to obtain knowledge, so they should present accurate knowledge through textual and visual representations. The goal of the current study is to examine the representations in middle school science textbooks based on the diagram coding scheme to find out a general picture of how representations…
Descriptors: Science Education, Textbooks, Textbook Evaluation, Foreign Countries
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Andreou, Eleni; Roussi-Vergou, Christina; Didaskalou, Eleni; Skrzypiec, Grace – Psychology in the Schools, 2020
The aim of the current study was to examine the role of resilience in the victimization experiences of students and their subjective well-being as well as to explore gender and age-related effects. Initially, 558 students (52.15% male) from grades 6 to 10 participated in the study completing The Student Aggression and Victimization Questionnaire,…
Descriptors: Bullying, Victims, Resilience (Psychology), Gender Differences
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Donolato, Enrica; Toffalini, Enrico; Giofrè, David; Caviola, Sara; Mammarella, Irene C. – Mind, Brain, and Education, 2020
Previous research examined the influence of math anxiety (MA) on performance in mathematics, but few studies compared the contribution of MA to other forms of anxiety, such as test and general anxiety (GA). Unlike MA, ego-resiliency promotes the management of challenges, and has been positively associated with mathematics performance. In this…
Descriptors: Mathematics Anxiety, Elementary School Students, Middle School Students, Resilience (Psychology)
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Styck, Kara M.; Villarreal, Victor; Watkins, Marley W. – School Psychology, 2020
Reading depends on the integration of both cognitive and motivational factors, yet reading motivation has received little attention in the research literature. The purpose of the present study was to evaluate the psychometric properties of the Baylor Revision of the Motivation to Read Survey (B-MRS; Watkins & Browning, 2015) with a sample of…
Descriptors: Measures (Individuals), Reading Motivation, Middle School Students, Factor Analysis
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Stern, Marc J.; Powell, Robert B.; Frensley, B. Troy – Environmental Education Research, 2022
Despite growing calls for greater inclusivity and cultural responsiveness, little is known about how environmental education (EE) may differentially affect diverse audiences. As part of a national study of 334 environmentally focused day field trips for adolescent youth in the United States in 2018, we examined how outcomes differed for students…
Descriptors: Environmental Education, Adolescents, Age Differences, Racial Differences
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Toraman, Çetin; Aktan, Osman; Korkmaz, Gunes – Shanlax International Journal of Education, 2022
The ongoing debate about if students' lives are either positively or negatively affected by parental involvement in terms of support or pressure for their children academic success is still important. This study aims to determine the relationships between secondary school students' gender, parents' income, grade, parental pressure or support for…
Descriptors: Secondary School Students, Parent Student Relationship, Parent Influence, Academic Achievement
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Kemiksiz, Ömer – Education Quarterly Reviews, 2022
The current study aims to investigate the self-efficacy perceptions of secondary school students regarding speaking skills according to various variables. The study was designed in the survey model, one of the quantitative research methods. The study group consisted of 434 students, 212 females and 222 males, studying at the 5th, 6th, 7th and 8th…
Descriptors: Self Efficacy, Secondary School Students, Speech Skills, Language Skills
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Soland, James; Thum, Yeow Meng – Journal of Research on Educational Effectiveness, 2022
Sources of longitudinal achievement data are increasing thanks partially to the expansion of available interim assessments. These tests are often used to monitor the progress of students, classrooms, and schools within and across school years. Yet, few statistical models equipped to approximate the distinctly seasonal patterns in the data exist,…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Longitudinal Studies, Data Use, Computation
Antonovics, Kate; Black, Sandra E.; Cullen, Julie Berry; Meiselman, Akiva Yonah – National Bureau of Economic Research, 2022
Schools often track students to classes based on ability. Proponents of tracking argue it is a low-cost tool to improve learning since instruction is more effective when students are more homogeneous, while opponents argue it exacerbates initial differences in opportunities without strong evidence of efficacy. In fact, little is known about the…
Descriptors: Public Schools, Academic Ability, Track System (Education), Grade 4
Meize Guo – ProQuest LLC, 2022
The consistent prevalence of computer science in our society and the urgent need for STEM professionals in the U.S. raised the need for computer science education at the K-8 level. Researchers have examined the challenges, possible approaches, and contents of teaching computer science. However, there has been limited research on teachers'…
Descriptors: Elementary School Teachers, Computer Science Education, Kindergarten, Grade 1
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Caballero, Camila; Scherer, Ethan; West, Martin R.; Mrazek, Michael D.; Gabrieli, Christopher F. O.; Gabrieli, John D. E. – Mind, Brain, and Education, 2019
Despite increasing interest in improving academic outcomes for students by enhancing mindfulness, there is a paucity of evidence that greater mindfulness is associated with success in school. We measured mindfulness with the short-form Mindful Attention Awareness Scale (MAAS) in over 2,000 urban students in Grades 5-8. The MAAS had good internal…
Descriptors: Metacognition, Academic Achievement, Middle School Students, Measures (Individuals)
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Turkben, Tuncay – Educational Policy Analysis and Strategic Research, 2019
Turkish textbooks are important tools for gaining skills and competencies identified in curriculum. Textbooks should be designed to contribute to students' basic language skills as well as high level thinking skills in alignment with curriculum. The texts to be selected for textbooks should be prepared in alignment with the targeted skills and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Textbooks, Middle Schools, Readability
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