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Avramidis, Elias; Aroni, Katerina; Strogilos, Vasilis – Australasian Journal of Special and Inclusive Education, 2022
Recent sociometric research has described students with special educational needs (SEN) as less accepted and experiencing more social difficulties than their classmates without SEN. This study addresses the social participation of students with moderate learning difficulties (MLD) in regular schools while also focusing on the quality of their best…
Descriptors: Friendship, Learning Disabilities, Special Needs Students, Longitudinal Studies
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Kim, Ann Y.; Rose, Chad A.; Hopkins, Stephanie; Mc Cree, Nikita; Romero, Monica – Preventing School Failure, 2022
Aggression toward peers is a pervasive problem among school-aged youth. Specifically, relational aggression refers to actions intended to harm another through manipulating social relationships. A diverse group of students (N = 14,083) were surveyed regarding their pro-bullying attitudes, perceived social status, and whether they had perpetrated…
Descriptors: Middle School Students, High School Students, Grade 6, Grade 7
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Harmon, Willie C., Jr.; James, Marlon; Young, Jamaal; Scott, Lawrence – Equity & Excellence in Education, 2023
This QuantCrit analysis considers Black fathers' influence on their sons' engagement and sense of belonging in urban intensive and emergent high schools. Canonical correlations show a significant relationship between Black fathers' paternal influence and their sons' engagement and sense of belonging in school. We discuss two QuantCrit…
Descriptors: African American Family, Fathers, African American Students, Parent Influence
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Asshoff, Roman; Hallerbach, Pia; Reinhardt, Klaus – International Journal of Science Education, 2020
Parasites evoke an array of emotions that subsequently can govern our action as well as our precautionary measures. If parasites are unknown, an important question is how people can be educated about this parasite. Bedbugs are blood-sucking human parasites that (i) stigmatise hosts, (ii) are hardly correctly identified by people in the western…
Descriptors: Science Instruction, Student Interests, Secondary School Students, Biology
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Kwan, Yee Wan – Learning Environments Research, 2020
The study examined the factor structure, reliability and validity of a Chinese version of the Constructivist Learning Environment Survey (C-CLES), an instrument for assessing students' perceptions of the extent of constructivist approaches prevalent in classrooms. A convenience sample of 967 students in Secondary Three (Grade 9) in Hong Kong…
Descriptors: Educational Environment, Constructivism (Learning), Questionnaires, Likert Scales
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Zmyj, Norbert; Huber-Bach, Lilo – Journal of LGBT Youth, 2020
Although same-sex marriages are legally recognized in many Western societies, prejudices against gay men and lesbians remain and already appear in adolescents. Since a negative attitude toward gay men and lesbians is likely to foster malevolent behaviors, we investigated predictors of homonegativity in adolescents aged between 14 and 16 years.…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Adolescents, Social Bias, Religion
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Fitzgerald, Michael T.; Danaia, Lena; McKinnon, David H.; Bartlett, Sophie – Australian Journal of Teacher Education, 2020
The science teacher in the modern high school acts as the designer and driver of the in-class practice. In this role, the teacher must broadly assess the effect of the practice on the student. This would rely on accurate self-knowledge of how they act in class and impact their students. In this study we explore these issues by comparing the…
Descriptors: Student Attitudes, Teacher Attitudes, High School Students, High School Teachers
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Chu, Man-Wai; Fowler, Teresa Anne – International Journal of Game-Based Learning, 2020
The use of computer games in education has been increasing in popularity during the past decade. Game-based learning environments are designed to teach specific knowledge content and skill-based learning outcomes using game elements. One main reason for using game-based learning environments is to increase student motivation and engagement while…
Descriptors: Educational Games, Computer Games, Formative Evaluation, Feedback (Response)
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Bahrami, Samira; Mohammadi, Yawar – Journal of Turkish Science Education, 2021
The extent to which people understand the role of energy in everyday life is called energy literacy. The purpose of this study is to investigate the levels of energy literacy among 393 Iranian 9th-grade students using the 'Energy Literacy Questionnaire' (ELQ) and study the effective factors on their energy literacy. The Mann-Whitney U test,…
Descriptors: Energy, Literacy, Science Instruction, Knowledge Level
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Giota, Joanna; Gustafsson, Jan-Eric – Scandinavian Journal of Educational Research, 2021
The study is based on two waves of longitudinal data at ages 13 and 16 aimed to examine factors that explain psychosomatic and depressive symptoms at the age of 16. The sample is nationally representative involving 9000 individuals from the Swedish longitudinal Evaluation Through Follow up database born in 1998. A growth modeling approach was…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Peer Relationship, Teacher Student Relationship, Psychosomatic Disorders
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Masterson, L.; Koch, M. J. – Investigations in Mathematics Learning, 2021
In this study, we consider the experiences of a professional learning community (PLC) who focused on fostering growth mindset to improve learning in a lower-stream grade 9 mathematics course. Using a sociocultural theoretical lens and drawing on data from a two-year case study, we summarize the ways that PLC members fostered growth mindset and…
Descriptors: Student Attitudes, Attitude Change, Mathematics Education, Communities of Practice
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Zan, Nuray; Dagbasi, Gürkan; Sanverdi, Halil Ibrahim – Education Quarterly Reviews, 2021
This study was carried out with a total of 75 students attending 9th grade in two high schools affiliated to the Ministry of National Education in Reyhanli district, which hosted many Syrian refugees in Hatay province in the spring semester of 2018-2019 academic years and lasted for three weeks. A total of 75 students, 43 from two different 9th…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Grade 9, High School Students, Refugees
Haghgoo, Razieh; Nourabadi, Soolmaz – Journal of Educational Psychology - Propositos y Representaciones, 2021
The present study has been compiled in order to analyze the content of the textbooks of "Religion and Life" in lower secondary school for attention to the formation of the "Iranian Muslim Woman Pattern." The main purpose of this study is to investigate the content of religion and life textbooks in the lower secondary school on…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Textbooks, Religious Education, Secondary School Students
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Xie, Jingwen; Wang, Minhong; Hooshyar, Danial – Knowledge Management & E-Learning, 2021
Digital game-based learning has received increased attention in education. As the key stakeholders in education, students, parents, and teachers may have different perceptions and attitudes towards game-based learning, which have a great impact on its adoption and dissemination. However, there is a lack of research examining how the perceptions of…
Descriptors: Student Attitudes, Parent Attitudes, Teacher Attitudes, Secondary School Teachers
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Epstein, Joyce L.; Mac Iver, Douglas J.; Mac Iver, Martha A.; Sheldon, Steven B. – Middle School Journal, 2021
Middle grades teachers want early adolescents to take responsibility for their own learning and success in school. One way to encourage this is with "interactive homework," which enables students to lead conversations with a parent or family partner about something interesting they are learning in class. An exploratory study tested…
Descriptors: Middle School Students, High School Students, Grade 8, Grade 9
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