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Meletiou-Mavrotheris, Maria; Carrilho, Ana Rita; Charalambous, Constadina; Mavrou, Katerina; Christou, Christiana – Education Sciences, 2020
Living Book--Augmenting Reading for Life, a three-year EU-funded Erasmus + project (September 2016-August 2019), exploited the affordances of augmented reality (AR) and other emerging technologies in order to address the underachievement of European youth in reading skills. The program developed an innovative approach that empowers teachers from…
Descriptors: Faculty Development, Books, Computer Simulation, Foreign Countries
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Constantia Charalampous – Educational Practice and Theory, 2024
Inclusion of students with marginalization tendencies has been one of the demands in the field of education over the last decades, but it remains unrealized. At the same time, our daily lives appear to have changed rapidly because of extensive use of digital media. This fact may have both positive and negative consequences. So, we were inspired to…
Descriptors: Inclusion, Minority Group Students, Secondary School Students, Longitudinal Studies
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Margarita Kilili-Lesta; Konstantinos Giannakou; Louiza Voniati – Autism & Developmental Language Impairments, 2024
Background and Aims: Children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) present with impairments in social interaction and stereotypic behaviors. About a third may exhibit delays in verbal expression beyond preschool age, potentially categorizing them as nonverbal/minimally verbal (NV/MV), a condition that can persist into adulthood and affect their…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Autism Spectrum Disorders, Prognostic Tests, Educational Testing
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Koushiou, Maria; Loutsiou, Anthi; Karekla, Maria – International Journal of School & Educational Psychology, 2021
This cross-sectional study aims to shed further light on the relation between self-esteem and Eating Disorders (EDs) as part of prevention efforts by testing the mediating role of psychological inflexibility in a sample of young teenagers. Four hundred and eighteen Greek-speaking students from one representative public middle school in Cyprus…
Descriptors: Eating Disorders, Middle School Students, Self Esteem, Correlation
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Ioannou, Kalia; Iordanou, Kalypso – Learning: Research and Practice, 2020
The present study explores possible relations between students' epistemic perspective, learning strategies and text comprehension. In Study 1, 79 sixth graders completed paper-and-pencil instruments to measure their epistemic perspective and learning strategies. Students' epistemic perspective was assessed using a scenario-based instrument, the…
Descriptors: Elementary School Students, Epistemology, Student Attitudes, Learning Strategies
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Solomontos-Kountouri, Olga; Strohmeier, Dagmar – International Journal of Developmental Science, 2018
This study examines how bullies, victims, bully-victims, and uninvolved adolescents perceive the activities of the class project of the ViSC social competence program. The ViSC program is a whole school socio-ecological anti-bullying program that was implemented in 43 classes, grade 7, 8, and 9, in three Cypriot schools. A sample of 778…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Bullying, Prevention, Interpersonal Competence
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Palavan, Özcan; Kozaner Yenigül, Çigdem – European Journal of Educational Research, 2021
Individuals and societies continue and end their lives within the framework of values. One of the most important of these values is the concept of homeland. Homeland refers to the land, where the individuals were born and live in, a piece of which may also be owned by such individuals. The concept of homeland is always given utmost importance in…
Descriptors: Elementary School Students, Middle School Students, Student Attitudes, Figurative Language
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Papadouris, Nicos; Constantinou, Constantinos P. – Journal of Research in Science Teaching, 2016
We investigated whether it is possible for 12-year-old students to develop a qualitative conceptualization of energy and four associate features (forms of energy, transfer processes, conservation, and degradation) as a framework for constructing interpretive accounts for the operation of physical phenomena (specifically, for changes taking place…
Descriptors: Energy, Middle School Students, Science Instruction, Teaching Methods
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Ates, Aliye – International Online Journal of Primary Education, 2017
The purpose of this study was to investigate the relationship between parental attitudes and bullying and victimization among young adolescents in Famagusta, Northern Cyprus. A total of 149 adolescents (85 girls, 64 boys) (mean age of 12.9 years, range of 12-15 years) were recruited from middle schools. The ages of the students were between 12…
Descriptors: Bullying, Victims, Early Adolescents, Middle School Students
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Güler, Nese; Ilhan, Mustafa; Güneyli, Ahmet; Demir, Süleyman – Educational Sciences: Theory and Practice, 2017
This study evaluates the psychometric properties of three different forms of the Writing Apprehension Test (WAT; Daly & Miller, 1975) through Rasch analysis. For this purpose, the fit statistics and correlation coefficients, and the reliability, separation ratio, and chi-square values for the facets of item and person calculated for the…
Descriptors: Writing Apprehension, Psychometrics, Item Response Theory, Tests
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Tezer, Murat; Ozden, Celalettin; Elci, Mucahit – Cypriot Journal of Educational Sciences, 2016
In this study, the relationship between academic achievement and attitudes towards "technology and design lesson" of the middle school, eighth grade students' gender, family income level, parent education level attitudes towards technology and design lesson have been investigated, and examined the relationship between attitudes and…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Student Attitudes, Middle School Students, Grade 8
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Byun, Soo-yong; Henck, Adrienne; Post, David – Comparative Education Review, 2014
Most existing research indicates that working students perform more poorly than do full-time students on standardized achievement tests. However, we know there are wide international variations in this gap. This article shows that national and international contexts help to explain the gap in the academic performance between working and nonworking…
Descriptors: Student Employment, Academic Achievement, Middle School Students, Grade 8
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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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Yel, Elif Binboga; Korhan, Orhan – International Journal of Research in Education and Science, 2015
This paper mainly examines anthropometric data, data regarding the habits, experiences, and attitudes of the students about their tablet/laptop/desktop computer use, in addition to self-reported musculoskeletal discomfort levels and frequencies of students participating in a tablet-assisted interactive education programme. A two-part questionnaire…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Middle School Students, High School Students, Student Surveys
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Papadouris, Nicos; Constantinou, Costas P. – International Journal of Science Education, 2014
We describe the implementation of a specially designed teaching innovation, embedded in the context of energy, for the promotion of specific aspects of the nature of science (NOS). We present empirical results from the implementation of the teaching and learning materials in three intact sixth-grade classes that involved a total of 64 students. We…
Descriptors: Science Instruction, Energy, Scientific Concepts, Grade 6
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