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Heather Wilks – ProQuest LLC, 2024
This explanatory sequential mixed methods study examines what influences 7th and 8th grade rural middle school students to consider a potential career trajectory. Phase One of the study includes a demographic and career cluster interest survey of 38 participants. Phase Two of the study focused on 23 of the 38 Phase One participants, who were…
Descriptors: Grade 7, Grade 8, Middle School Students, Rural Schools
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Jacob Steiss; Jenell Krishnan; Jiali Wang – Social Studies, 2024
Developing disciplinary literacy is an emerging priority for secondary teachers as they prepare students for college, career, and civic life. One way to develop and assess disciplinary literacy in history is through source-based argument writing (SBAW) with multiple sources. SBAW requires students to synthesize information across texts and use…
Descriptors: Grade 8, History Instruction, Writing Instruction, Writing Skills
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Deni Dwi Putra; Aan Subhan Pamungkas; Hepsi Nindiasari; Maman Fathurrohman; Anne Porter – Journal of Research and Advances in Mathematics Education, 2024
This research aims to improve the numeracy abilities of secondary students after using the Labirin: the board game and students' perceptions of mathematics learning using the game. This empirical study research used a one-group pretest posttest design. The research population is all grade-8 students in one of the Islamic public secondary schools…
Descriptors: Game Based Learning, Grade 8, Numeracy, Mathematics Instruction
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National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP), 2024
The National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) is an integral measure of academic progress across the nation and over time. It is the largest nationally representative and continuing assessment of what our nation's students know and can do in various subjects such as civics, mathematics, reading, and U.S. history. The program also provides…
Descriptors: National Competency Tests, School Districts, Educational Assessment, Grade 4
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Abdullah Ambusaidi; Huda Al-Dayri; Maryam Al-Sumari – Cogent Education, 2024
The study aimed to explore the effectiveness of a sustainable environmental tourism educational program in influencing the attitudes of eighth-grade Omani students towards the environment and their inclination to engage in entrepreneurship in environmental tourism projects. The study adopted a quasi-experimental design with two groups:…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Sustainability, Tourism, Grade 8
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Ning Yue; Chieh Li; Shangwen Si; Shanshan Xu; Qin Zhang; Lixia Cui – School Mental Health, 2024
Numerous studies have revealed an alarming prevalence of test anxiety among Chinese junior high school students. Prevention of test anxiety in this population has become crucial. Brief meditation intervention (BMI) has shown promising results for promoting students' well-being and reducing test anxiety, but its mechanism for reducing test anxiety…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Grade 8, Junior High School Students, Testing
Lauren Pace – ProQuest LLC, 2024
The purpose of this quantitative, quasi-experimental, nonequivalent comparison-group design was to determine if "How to Learn Math: for Students" (Boaler, 2018) had a statistically significant influence on eighth-grade students' mathematical anxiety and mathematical achievement. Participants included eighth-grade students (n = 28) in a…
Descriptors: Mathematics Instruction, Mathematics Anxiety, Mathematics Achievement, Instructional Effectiveness
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Alexandria A. Viegut; Ana C. Stephens; Percival G. Matthews – Grantee Submission, 2024
Researchers from multiple disciplines have found that fractions and algebra knowledge are linked. One major strand of research has identified children's "units coordination" structures as crucial for success with fractions and algebra via multiplicative reasoning, whereas a second strand of research points to "magnitude…
Descriptors: Fractions, Algebra, Mathematics Instruction, Grade 8
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Alexandria A. Viegut; Ana C. Stephens; Percival G. Matthews – Investigations in Mathematics Learning, 2024
Researchers from multiple disciplines have found that fractions and algebra knowledge are linked. One major strand of research has identified children's "units coordination" structures as crucial for success with fractions and algebra via multiplicative reasoning, whereas a second strand of research points to "magnitude…
Descriptors: Fractions, Algebra, Mathematics Instruction, Grade 8
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Roos, Anna-Lena; Goetz, Thomas; Krannich, Maike; Donker, Monika; Bieleke, Maik; Caltabiano, Anna; Mainhard, Tim – British Journal of Educational Psychology, 2023
Background: This study investigated the role of different test anxiety components (affective, cognitive, motivational and physiological) as mediators between control and performance as proposed by Pekrun's control-value theory (CVT). While all components were assessed via self-report, the physiological component was additionally assessed via…
Descriptors: Elementary School Students, Grade 8, Test Anxiety, Scores
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Tsebo Kgoto Matsekoleng – Educational Process: International Journal, 2023
Background/purpose: Technology education (TE) offers hands-on activities through a design process to be an environmentally-oriented subject. TE can be used to reduce littering, an environmental problem that also has health implications for modern-day society. This research study sought to explore the challenges that impede TE teachers in…
Descriptors: Grade 8, Pollution, Environmental Education, Foreign Countries
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Ayhan Kandemir – International Journal of Psychology and Educational Studies, 2023
This study aims to examine students' perceptions of self-compassion and school burnout. The relationshipal survey method, which is among quantitative research methods, was used in the study. The study sample consisted of 231 8th grade students studying in central secondary schools in Bolu, Turkey, during the first semester of the academic year…
Descriptors: Grade 8, Secondary School Students, Student Attitudes, Burnout
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Yasser F. Hendawy Al-Mahdy; Philip Hallinger; Mahmoud Emam; Waheed Hammad; Khalaf Marhoun Alabri; Khalsa Al-Harthi – Educational Management Administration & Leadership, 2024
Lagging student performance in the Sultanate of Oman has, in recent years, led the Ministry of Education to target teachers' professional learning as a key strategic pillar in its efforts to reform the education system. While international evidence finds principal leadership can make a meaningful difference in teacher engagement in professional…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Grade 8, Middle School Teachers, Teacher Education
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Pradina Parameswari; Purwanto; Sudirman; Susiswo – Mathematics Teaching Research Journal, 2024
Students' difficulties in differentiating the direct proportion and inverse proportion problems cause interference. Proactive interference is the error that occurs when old information (concept of direct proportion) interferes with new information (concept of inverse proportion). In solving the problem of inverse proportion, students often use the…
Descriptors: Problem Solving, Mathematical Concepts, Mathematics Instruction, Grade 8
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Ibrahim; Ibrahim Alhussain Khalil; Rully Charitas Indra Prahmana – Journal on Mathematics Education, 2024
Mathematical creative thinking skill often becomes the orientation of mathematics learning, aiming to enhance students' creativity in mathematics. Recognizing that creativity encompasses the capacity for thinking creatively and creativity disposition is essential. Building on this conceptual foundation, the primary objective of this study is to…
Descriptors: Creative Thinking, Mathematics Education, Algebra, Grade 8
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