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Seyda Gul; Mehmet Yilmaz; Ali Gul – Science Insights Education Frontiers, 2021
The aim of this study is to determine the students' misconceptions about the digestive system. In this quantitative research, the study group comprised totally 259 sixth-, seventh-, and eighth-grade students. The data were collected through a three-tier diagnostic test and analyzed in terms of scientific knowledge, the lucky guess, lack of…
Descriptors: Science Instruction, Scientific Concepts, Misconceptions, Human Body
Nesimyan -- Agadi, Dina; Ben Zvi Assaraf, Orit – Instructional Science: An International Journal of the Learning Sciences, 2022
Informal learning environments can be a fun and effective means of introducing visitors to a variety of topics in evolution. Our study examined 120 sixth-grade students' conceptualisation of evolutionary ideas following three evolution-themed "Science Days" at 'Nature Campus'--an informal learning environment in Central Israel comprised…
Descriptors: Informal Education, Grade 6, Science Instruction, Evolution
DiSalvo, Richard W. – Education Finance and Policy, 2022
Do grade configurations affect student academic performance? To bring new evidence to this question, I use recent district-by-grade data for nearly the entire United States that contain measures of test score achievement and rates of school switching induced by grade configuration. Past research has found that student performance, is, on average,…
Descriptors: Instructional Program Divisions, Grouping (Instructional Purposes), Achievement Tests, Scores
Lovemore, Tarryn; Robertson, Sally-Ann; Graven, Mellony – Mathematics Education Research Group of Australasia, 2022
This paper describes the authors' journey in designing a linear representation that aligns mathematics and music to support fractional reasoning. The three authors, guided by the theoretical framing of realistic mathematics education, engaged in a task design process over a 12-month period to develop integrated resources. Data were collected in…
Descriptors: Mathematics Instruction, Mathematical Logic, Mathematical Concepts, Music Activities
Koniewski, Maciej; Hawrot, Anna – Research Papers in Education, 2022
This study inquired into the effect of single-sex schooling on achievement of female adolescents. It used national examination data of 4,787 Polish female students (10 cohorts) attending single-sex and co-educational Catholic schools. We tested two sets of partially contradictory predictions derived from two different theoretical models explaining…
Descriptors: Single Sex Schools, Coeducation, Academic Achievement, Females
Plante, Isabelle; Lecours, Véronique; Lapointe, Raphaël; Chaffee, Kathryn Everhart; Fréchette-Simard, Catherine – British Journal of Educational Psychology, 2022
Background: When exposed to evaluative situations, up to 40% of students develop test anxiety, reflected, namely, by extensive worry, intrusive thoughts, and physiological arousal. Though the negative influence of test anxiety on later school performance is well documented, the role of students' initial achievement in the development of later test…
Descriptors: Prior Learning, Secondary School Students, Test Anxiety, Mathematics Achievement
Berasategi, Naiara; Arostegui, Igone; Ozerinjauregi, Nagore – International Journal of Disability, Development and Education, 2022
The objective of the study was to create and validate an instrument to compile the attitudes and experiences of students towards inclusive education. A total of 544 students from the 6th year of Primary Education and 3rd year of Compulsory Secondary Education participated from 10 schools in the Basque Country (Spain) province of Bizkaia. The…
Descriptors: Test Construction, Test Validity, Student Attitudes, Inclusion
Skjelstad Fredagsvik, Maren – International Journal of Science Education, 2022
This study examines how students in primary school (grades five and six) displayed creative thinking while working on an open-ended science project, and how they included science knowledge during the creative process. The findings show that students approached the creative process in six different ways: (1) by adaptation, (2) by transfer, (3) by…
Descriptors: Creativity, Student Participation, Student Projects, Science Education
Elbih, Randa; Miller, Elyssa; Sheldon, Grace; Wilson, Mackenzie – Current Issues in Middle Level Education, 2022
Pre-service teachers (PSTs) often struggle to teach STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics) content effectively due to lack of training on how to plan a STEM lesson in meaningful ways as well as which subjects to integrate. This dilemma often results in an avoidance of STEM methodology altogether. This paper describes a productive…
Descriptors: Social Studies, Teaching Methods, STEM Education, Preservice Teachers
van Putten, Sonja; Blom, Nicolaas; Dibane, Zanele – Africa Education Review, 2022
This study explored the mathematics teacher identity (MTI) of three purposefully selected grade 6 non-specialist primary school mathematics teachers. The participants' subject matter knowledge and didactical skills were explored by means of semi-structured interviews, lesson observations, and document analysis of lesson plans. The data were…
Descriptors: Mathematics Teachers, Professional Identity, Grade 6, Elementary School Teachers
Asmali, Mehmet; Sayin, Sanem Dilbaz – Acuity: Journal of English Language Pedagogy, Literature and Culture, 2022
Despite the abundance of studies investigating the impact of academic procrastination on several aspects of learning, less is known about how this construct is perceived by adolescent foreign language learners with different levels of academic procrastination and their reasons to delay tasks and potential suggestions to reduce it. This study was…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Student Behavior, Preadolescents, Time Management
Ritella, Giuseppe; Loperfido, Fedela Feldia; De Giglio, Gianfranco; Scurani, Antonietta; Ligorio, Maria Beatrice – Dialogic Pedagogy, 2022
This article explores how the adoption of educational robotics, cloud-based animation software, and simplified visual programming software can provide valuable opportunities for dialogic interaction and learning. The potentialities of this type of activity are often overlooked in dialogic investigations. Based on empirical illustration, we discuss…
Descriptors: Robotics, Animation, Computer Software, Interaction
Kurnaz, Ahmet; Pürsün, Tugba – Research in Pedagogy, 2022
This study aims to examine the reading motivation of secondary school students concerning various variables. The research was designed in a scanning model. The research was conducted with 585 participants selected based on simple random sampling method. The research data were collected by using the Reading Motivation Scale and Personal Information…
Descriptors: Reading Motivation, Gender Differences, Instructional Program Divisions, Recreational Reading
Cekiso, Madoda; Rabelemane, Tsielo; Jadezweni, Jay; Mandende, Itani P.; Dieperink, Marius – Reading & Writing: Journal of the Literacy Association of South Africa, 2022
Background: Rural learners face severe reading challenges that are unique to their environment. The challenges include parents' low level of education, little or no parental support, lack of reading material, and parents' low socio-economic status. It is therefore important that rural education research highlights these challenges in order to help…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Grade 6, Rural Schools, Reading Skills
Walldén, Robert – Cogent Education, 2022
This qualitative study focuses on Grade 6 students' possibilities to engage in disciplinary writing practices in history teaching in a school located in a socially disadvantaged and linguistically diverse area. The aim is to contribute knowledge about how students negotiate different literacy expectations in the teaching. The researcher used…
Descriptors: Elementary School Students, Grade 6, History Instruction, Content Area Writing