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Jennifer Watt; Heather Krepski; Rebeca Heringer – McGill Journal of Education, 2024
The purpose of this study was to explore how teacherpractitioners in a Canadian middle school perceive students' experiences of well-being in student-led service learning projects (SLPs). Through semistructured interviews, we explored five school practitioners' accounts of how SLPs contributed to student relating and functioning in a well-being…
Descriptors: Grade 5, Grade 6, Grade 7, Grade 8
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Çigdem Bozdag; Yasemin Karakasoglu – Global Studies of Childhood, 2024
Digital media provide easy access to media content in multiple languages from local, national, and transnational contexts. This accessibility of diverse content enables young people in the migration society to develop multilingual and transnational media repertoires: they have the option to continuously and strategically navigate between different…
Descriptors: Multilingual Materials, Foreign Countries, Media Education, Multimedia Materials
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Fernandez-Rio, Javier; Morales-Sallés, Pablo – Journal of Educational Research, 2020
The goal was to gain a deeper understanding of the extended use of student-designed games. 207 students (grades: eight, nine, eleven) from one school participated. They were randomly divided in Experimental (student-designed games) and Equivalent group (traditional instruction). Both experienced the same learning units (two, 12 sessions) over the…
Descriptors: Games, Student Attitudes, Teacher Attitudes, Student Developed Materials
Rones, Desiree Dawn – ProQuest LLC, 2019
Formative assessment is a tool for learning that virtually every educator uses in the classroom to some extent. While teachers may be motivated to use formative assessment for a variety of reasons, its intended purpose is to be a tool for both teachers and students for teaching and learning, respectively. However, many teachers, even those with…
Descriptors: Elementary School Students, Elementary School Teachers, Student Attitudes, Teacher Attitudes
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Wiggan, Greg; Watson-Vandiver, Marcia J. – Race, Ethnicity and Education, 2019
Despite decades of education reform, the US school curricula remain virtually unchanged. Multi-billion dollar initiatives such as "No Child Left Behind," "Common Core State Standards," "Race to the Top," and "Every Student Succeeds Act" have not resulted in significant academic gains or curricula change. The…
Descriptors: Student Empowerment, Student Attitudes, High Achievement, Multicultural Education
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Quicke, John; Winter, Christine – Research Papers in Education: Policy and Practice, 1996
A British university-initiated action research project emphasized development and evaluation of strategies for enhancing eighth graders' self-regulated learning. Case studies indicated the project had limited success in impacting teaching strategies and curriculum development, and the National Curriculum did nothing to increase the likelihood of…
Descriptors: Action Research, British National Curriculum, Foreign Countries, Grade 8