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Annika Volt; Mart Laanpere; Jüri Kurvits – Educational Media International, 2024
The COVID-19 pandemic caused some serious setbacks in primary and secondary education wordlwide. In 2021, the Estonian Ministry of Education and Research (MoER) contracted a group of researchers and expert teachers to design and validate of a set of innovative digital learning resources that support personalized learning paths to meet the needs of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Secondary School Mathematics, Secondary School Students, Secondary School Teachers
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Hennok, Liis; Mädamürk, Kaja; Kikas, Eve – European Journal of Psychology of Education, 2023
The study aims to examine students' awareness and reported use of learning strategies as well as their effectiveness for word recognition using a word list memorization task. The sample included 1039 Grade 2, 1069 Grade 4, 832 Grade 6, and 3752 Grade 9 students (aged 8-15 years) from 272 Estonian schools. More students in higher grades reported…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Elementary School Students, Secondary School Students, Memorization
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Uibu, Marko; Kalma, Maarja; Mägi, Katrin; Kull, Merike – Scandinavian Journal of Educational Research, 2022
Engaging key stakeholders, including students into the process of school-based physical activity (PA) intervention planning is considered important. The present study was part of the preparatory phase of the Estonian Schools in Motion pilot programme and aimed to examine students' perspective of PA opportunities in the classroom. Based on 17 focus…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Physical Activities, Intervention, Student Attitudes
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Rozgonjuk, Dmitri; Täht, Karin; Vassil, Kristjan – International Journal of STEM Education, 2021
Background: The excessive use of Internet-based technologies has received a considerable attention over the past years. Despite this, there is relatively little research on how general Internet usage patterns at and outside of school as well as on weekends may be associated with mathematics achievement. Moreover, only a handful of studies have…
Descriptors: Internet, Educational Technology, Technology Uses in Education, Mathematics Instruction
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Soobard, Regina; Kotkas, Tormi; Holbrook, Jack; Rannikmae, Miia – European Journal of Educational Research, 2020
This longitudinal study focuses on evaluating grade 7-9 school students' perceptions of intervention modules intended to be relevant, as well as promoting learning attributes to raise awareness of science-related careers. Students are taught through six purposely developed and designed career-related teaching-learning modules (C-TLMs). Each module…
Descriptors: Student Attitudes, Intervention, Learning Modules, Career Awareness
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Rosin, Triin; Vaino, Katrin; Soobard, Regina; Rannikmäe, Miia – Science Education International, 2021
Competence-based, science e-testing (CBSeT) is a novel external assessment tool which provides feedback to science teachers about their students' competence-based skills, thereby giving relevant assessment information which teachers could potentially use in their teaching practice. The aim of this study was to determine the extent to which…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Science Teachers, Beliefs, Science Tests
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Teppo, Moonika; Soobard, Regina; Rannikmäe, Miia – Education Sciences, 2021
Research findings indicate a decline in students' motivation towards science learning through grade levels. However, there is a lack of studies investigating students' motivation comparing learning between science subjects and at different school levels. Using self-determination theory as a framework, this study compares perceived changes in…
Descriptors: Student Motivation, Student Attitudes, Attitude Change, Value Judgment
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Teppo, Moonika; Soobard, Regina; Rannikmäe, Miia – Journal of Baltic Science Education, 2021
Student perceptions of science teaching could be expected to differ in grade 6 compared with teaching in grade 9, as could student interest in science learning. To compare Estonian grades 6 and 9, lower secondary school student and science teacher perceptions of teaching/ learning approaches as well as student perceived interests/enjoyment on…
Descriptors: Grade 6, Grade 9, Early Adolescents, Secondary School Students
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Kikas, Eve; Mädamürk, Kaja; Palu, Anu – British Journal of Educational Psychology, 2020
Background: Math is a difficult subject with which many upper middle-school students struggle. In addition to knowledge, skills, and motivation, effective learning strategies play an important role in learning math. Aims: This study aimed to examine the effects of comprehension-oriented learning strategies (perceptual and abstract grouping of…
Descriptors: Mathematics Instruction, Middle School Students, Comprehension, Learning Strategies
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Pihlap, Sirje – International Journal for Technology in Mathematics Education, 2017
Studies of the impact of various types of computer use on the results of learning and student motivation have indicated that the use of computers can increase learning motivation, and that computers can have a positive effect, a negative effect, or no effect at all on learning outcomes. Some results indicate that it is not computer use itself that…
Descriptors: Educational Technology, Computer Uses in Education, Mathematics Instruction, Grade 9
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Lam, Shui-fong; Jimerson, Shane; Shin, Hyeonsook; Cefai, Carmel; Veiga, Feliciano H.; Hatzichristou, Chryse; Polychroni, Fotini; Kikas, Eve; Wong, Bernard P. H.; Stanculescu, Elena; Basnett, Julie; Duck, Robert; Farrell, Peter; Liu, Yi; Negovan, Valeria; Nelson, Brett; Yang, Hongfei; Zollneritsch, Josef – British Journal of Educational Psychology, 2016
Background: A comprehensive understanding of the contextual factors that are linked to student engagement requires research that includes cross-cultural perspectives. Aims: This study investigated how student engagement in school is associated with grade, gender, and contextual factors across 12 countries. It also investigated whether these…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Comparative Education, Learner Engagement, Cross Cultural Studies
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Pedaste, Margus; Mäeots, Mario; Leijen, Äli; Sarapuu, Tago – Technology, Instruction, Cognition and Learning, 2012
The current study applied a Web-based inquiry-learning environment Young Researcher for science learning. The environment supported students' inquiry processes with scaffolds for enhancing self-regulation and reflection. Empirical results suggest that students' inquiry skills and the quality of students' regulative processes improved in this…
Descriptors: Inquiry, Science Instruction, Scaffolding (Teaching Technique), Self Management
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Lam, Shui-fong; Jimerson, Shane; Wong, Bernard P. H.; Kikas, Eve; Shin, Hyeonsook; Veiga, Feliciano H.; Hatzichristou, Chryse; Polychroni, Fotini; Cefai, Carmel; Negovan, Valeria; Stanculescu, Elena; Yang, Hongfei; Liu, Yi; Basnett, Julie; Duck, Robert; Farrell, Peter; Nelson, Brett; Zollneritsch, Josef – School Psychology Quarterly, 2014
The objective of the present study was to develop a scale that is appropriate for use internationally to measure affective, behavioral, and cognitive dimensions of student engagement. Psychometric properties of this scale were examined with data of 3,420 students (7th, 8th, and 9th grade) from 12 countries (Austria, Canada, China, Cyprus, Estonia,…
Descriptors: Comparative Education, Foreign Countries, Learner Engagement, Psychometrics
Oder, Tuuli – Teacher Development, 2014
During the most recent educational reform in Estonia, a new National Curriculum was introduced in 2010 providing new guidelines for education generally and foreign languages specifically. To investigate the understanding that an EFL (English as a Foreign Language) teacher has about professional teaching and whether it matches the principles of the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, English (Second Language), Second Language Instruction, Language Teachers
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Pipere, Anita; Lepik, Madis – Electronic Journal of Research in Educational Psychology, 2013
Introduction: An effective teaching and learning environment has been identified as a factor having an impact on the functionality of school. The purpose of this study was to explore the relationship between the satisfaction level of mathematics teachers with their collaboration and recognition at school as a significant component of general job…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Job Satisfaction, Teacher Attendance, Mathematics Teachers
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