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Sah, Pramod Kumar; Li, Guofang – International Multilingual Research Journal, 2018
This article reports on a critical qualitative case study of an EMI-based, underresourced public school in Nepal through Bourdieu's lens of linguistic capital. As the data analysis revealed, parents, students, and teachers regarded EMI as a privileged form of linguistic capital for developing advanced English skills, enhancing educational…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, English (Second Language), Language of Instruction, Qualitative Research
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Briede, Liene – Journal of Teacher Education for Sustainability, 2016
The aim of the study is to investigate the relationship between the teaching approach adopted by mathematics teachers and their 9th grade students' mathematical self. The study searched for the answers on three research questions, namely, about 1) the approaches prevailing in mathematics teachers' beliefs about effective teaching and self-reports…
Descriptors: Correlation, Teaching Methods, Mathematics Teachers, Grade 9
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Borup, Jered – Journal of Research on Technology in Education, 2016
A growing number of adolescents are taking all or most of their courses online. This places a greater responsibility on parents to support and facilitate their students' learning. This case study used teacher surveys and interviews to better understand how teachers perceived and supported parents' attempts to support their online students at a…
Descriptors: Teacher Attitudes, Parent Participation, High Schools, High School Students
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Lee, Minhye; Bong, Mimi – Journal of Educational Psychology, 2016
By analyzing the open-ended reasons for studying generated by 3 different groups of Korean middle school students, we aimed to provide partial answers to current issues in achievement goal research that are difficult to resolve solely with the use of survey ratings. We categorized student responses using the achievement goal frameworks of Midgley…
Descriptors: Middle School Students, Academic Achievement, Goal Orientation, Interviews
McGee, Adrianne Nicole – ProQuest LLC, 2015
This dissertation was designed to gather data regarding the self-efficacy beliefs of ninth graders after experiencing the one-to-one technology initiative for 1 school year. The goal was to obtain information based on the experiences of the students in order to enlighten leaders of other schools and districts when implementing their own technology…
Descriptors: Educational Technology, Technology Uses in Education, Grade 9, Surveys
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Shin, Suhkyung; Brush, Thomas A.; Glazewski, Krista D. – Educational Technology & Society, 2017
This study explores how web-based scaffolding tools provide instructional support while implementing a socio-scientific inquiry (SSI) unit in a science classroom. This case study focused on how students used web-based scaffolding tools during SSI activities, and how students perceived the SSI unit and the scaffolding tools embedded in the SSI…
Descriptors: Web Based Instruction, Scaffolding (Teaching Technique), Science and Society, Inquiry
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Peterson, Lana; Scharber, Cassandra – Computers in the Schools, 2017
The purpose of this study was to document the process one district used to design, develop, and implement a one-to-one pilot at its high school as part of its broader commitment to contemporary learning. Specifically, this qualitative case study (a) outlines the process of the laptop pilot, (b) describes the pilot implementation experience for…
Descriptors: Educational Technology, Laptop Computers, Computer Uses in Education, Qualitative Research
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Polivanova, K. P.; Sazonova, E. V.; Shakarova, M. A. – Russian Education & Society, 2015
The present article treats changes in the learning environment of contemporary children as exacerbation of the "childhood crisis." We believe that new research in the field of developmental psychology is required in order to apply cultural-historical theory to new data. The article presents two studies: one of them considers a preschool…
Descriptors: Preschool Children, Cartoons, Games, Adolescents
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Muir, Tracey – Mathematics Education Research Journal, 2014
Today's students increasingly engage in online environments, with ready access to digital resources and mobile technologies. While much of this activity is socially motivated, the internet is also a source of knowledge for students and frequently accessed for school assignments, projects and assessment purposes. As mathematics continues to be…
Descriptors: Electronic Learning, Tutoring, Search Engines, Online Searching
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Hurtado Torres, Sergio Aldemar; Castañeda-Peña, Harold Andrés – English Language Teaching, 2016
There is little scholarly information about parent involvement in their children's English as a Foreign Language (EFL henceforth) literacy learning in the Colombian context. This exploratory-qualitative study looks into the possible roles of parents and children in EFL literacy learning at home, with special emphasis on parental roles and…
Descriptors: Parent Role, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Foreign Countries
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Sundqvist, Pia; Wikström, Peter; Sandlund, Erica; Nyroos, Lina – Language Testing, 2018
The present paper looks at the issue of standardization in L2 oral testing. Whereas external examiners are frequently used globally, some countries opt for test-takers' own teachers as examiners instead. In the present study, Sweden is used as a case in point, with a focus on the mandatory, high-stakes, summative, ninth-grade national test in…
Descriptors: Oral Language, Standards, Second Language Learning, Language Tests
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Iachini, Aidyn L.; Rogelberg, Sandra; Terry, John David; Lutz, Amy – Children & Schools, 2016
This article describes Aspire, a new motivational interviewing (MI) early intervention program designed to prevent dropout among students repeating the ninth grade, and then examines the feasibility and acceptability of this program through a mixed-methods approach. The Aspire program is a nine-lesson curriculum grounded in MI with an emphasis on…
Descriptors: Feasibility Studies, Motivation Techniques, Interviews, Early Intervention
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Berglas, Nancy F.; Jerman, Petra; Rohrbach, Louise A.; Angulo-Olaiz, Francisca; Chou, Chih-Ping; Constantine, Norman A. – Sex Education: Sexuality, Society and Learning, 2016
Numerous classroom-based interventions have aimed to improve sexual health outcomes for young people, yet few have shown strong, lasting effects. Ecological approaches that address multiple levels of a young person's environment offer largely untapped potential to positively change sexual behaviour. This paper presents results of a…
Descriptors: Sex Education, Urban Schools, High School Students, Program Implementation
Watson, Jane M.; Nathan, Erica L. – Mathematics Education Research Group of Australasia, 2010
As part of an interview protocol investigating teachers' pedagogical content knowledge (PCK) in statistics, 40 teachers were presented with a newspaper article reporting a phone-in survey about the legalisation of marijuana. The article and a question about the reliability of the sample had earlier been used in student surveys, and three student…
Descriptors: Mathematics Education, Student Surveys, Foreign Countries, Pedagogical Content Knowledge
Sepanik, Susan; Corrin, William; Roy, David; Gray, Aracelis; Fernandez, Felix; Briggs, Ashley; Wang, Kathleen K. – MDRC, 2015
Too many students in high-poverty, urban communities drop out of high school, and too few graduate prepared for college and careers. Three national organizations--Talent Development Secondary, City Year, and Communities In Schools--have formed "Diplomas Now" in an effort to transform urban secondary schools so fewer students drop out and…
Descriptors: Urban Schools, Secondary Schools, Dropout Prevention, College Readiness
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