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Gabriella Franza – Journal for Leadership and Instruction, 2023
The COVID-19 school shutdown took students out of the school building and into the virtual classroom. With this, students lost opportunities to connect with their peers and school members. With students reentering the schools, there is a great need for structures built within the school day for community building. Restorative circles are safe…
Descriptors: Restorative Practices, Sense of Community, Peer Relationship, High School Students
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Una Tellhed; Fredrik Björklund; Kalle Kallio Strand; Karolin Schöttelndreier – Journal for STEM Education Research, 2023
To increase engagement with science and technology, young people around the world are encouraged to attend activities at science centers. But how effective are these activities? Since women have weaker ability beliefs and interest in technology than men, it is especially important to learn how science center visits affect them. In this study, we…
Descriptors: Middle School Students, Grade 8, Grade 9, Gender Differences
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Gridos, Panagiotis; Avgerinos, Evgenios; Deliyianni, Eleni; Elia, Iliada; Gagatsis, Athanasios; Geitona, Zoi – European Educational Researcher, 2021
This study aims to examine the relation between spatial ability and creativity in Geometry. Data was collected from 94 ninth graders. Three spatial abilities were investigated: spatial visualization, spatial relations and closure flexibility. As for students' creativity, it was examined through a multiple solution problem in Geometry focusing on…
Descriptors: Spatial Ability, Creativity, Geometry, Problem Solving
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Park, Jungyoung; Fang, Zhihui – Literacy, 2021
Voice is a key component of interpersonal meaning that denotes a writer's value judgement or personal feelings. An important aspect of voice in informational writing is epistemic stance, which indicates a writer's judgement of the information presented. This exploratory study examined adolescents' use of hedges and boosters to convey epistemic…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Expository Writing, Rhetoric, Value Judgment
Ben Dalton; Elizabeth Glennie; Roger Studley; Siri Warkentien; Erich Lauff – Grantee Submission, 2021
Industry-recognized credentials, or certifications, provide one path to match people with jobs effectively. Certifications are nationally recognized, standardized credentials created by businesses and industry groups to demonstrate proficiency in skills related to specific jobs. State education systems increasingly provide students the opportunity…
Descriptors: Certification, High School Students, Vocational Education, Grade 9
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Ben Dalton; Elizabeth Glennie; Roger Studley; Siri Warkentien; Erich Lauff – Career and Technical Education Research, 2021
Industry-recognized credentials, or certifications, provide one path to match people with jobs effectively. Certifications are nationally recognized, standardized credentials created by businesses and industry groups to demonstrate proficiency in skills related to specific jobs. State education systems increasingly provide students the opportunity…
Descriptors: Certification, High School Students, Vocational Education, Grade 9
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Brian Holzman; Bethany Lewis; Hao Ma – Houston Education Research Consortium, 2024
This study examined whether there were gendered patterns in STEM endorsement choice in the Houston Independent School District (HISD) and how those patterns changed over time, in the wake of a policy change to guidance counseling. The first students required to choose high school endorsements were freshmen in 2014-2015 and graduated high school in…
Descriptors: STEM Education, Gender Differences, School Counseling, Grade 9
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Taormina J. Lepore; Lisa Lundgren; Daniel Lawver – Journal of Geoscience Education, 2024
Field experiences are an important element of paleontological knowledge building. However, there is little information about the effects field experiences have on science stewardship and personal growth in high school learners. This pilot study analyzed the reflections of a group of female and male 9th grade U.S. high school students (N = 72) on…
Descriptors: Paleontology, High School Students, Field Experience Programs, Comparative Analysis
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Lakshmana Rao Pinninti – TESL-EJ, 2024
Research indicates that reading strategy instruction improves comprehension. Conceptualizing strategy training as mediating reading strategy use through collaborative and reflective practices, the present study examined the combined effect of peer-collaborative strategic reading and reflective journaling on strategy use and comprehension. Data…
Descriptors: Cooperative Learning, Reading Strategies, Reflection, Journal Writing
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Felicitas Pielsticker; Magnus Reifenrath – LUMAT: International Journal on Math, Science and Technology Education, 2024
The following survey study uses a quantitative research design to investigate motivational and affective aspects of students (aged 14-17) in a mathematical workshop on graph theory. Motivational and affective aspects are related to heart rate measurement (using the digital medium of a pulse watch) in mathematical knowledge development processes in…
Descriptors: Metabolism, Adolescents, Mathematics Instruction, Student Motivation
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Hanne M. Kivimäki; Timo P. Ståhl; Katja M. Joronen; Arja H. Rimpelä – Journal of School Nursing, 2024
Engaging parents in school health examinations can promote adolescents' well-being. We examined parents' participation in universal school health examinations in Finland reported by adolescents in school surveys (14 to 16-year-olds, N = 58,232). Further we studied variation between service providers and schools, and student and school-level…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Parent Participation, Physical Examinations, Adolescents
Stephanie Morgan Ruiz – ProQuest LLC, 2024
This study addressed the following research questions: 1) What is the effect of differentiated gamified instruction on the cognitive engagement of ninth grade students in the unit of plant and animal systems? 2) What is the effect of differentiated gamified instruction on the behavioral engagement of ninth grade biology students in the unit of…
Descriptors: Individualized Instruction, Science Instruction, Teaching Methods, Gamification
Roy A. Roberts Jr. – ProQuest LLC, 2024
A qualitative approach was utilized in this study to examine four transition programs' best educational practices in building transition programs for eighth to ninth grade. An analysis of a retrospective study of the four transition programs provided data to support recommendations for best educational practices to build a transition program for…
Descriptors: Best Practices, Program Implementation, Transitional Programs, Middle Schools
Nicholas R. Ford – ProQuest LLC, 2024
This action research study explored the use of mentorship as an intervention to improve the attendance chronically absent ninth grade students at an urban high school. Chronic absenteeism is a phenomenon with multiple compounding negative impacts on students. Moreover, it is a complicated problem with multiple contributing factors and potential…
Descriptors: Mentors, Intervention, Attendance, Grade 9
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Tatjana Taraszow; Sarah Gentrup; Birgit Heppt – Social Psychology of Education: An International Journal, 2024
Gender differences in reading and math have been reported for many years. Girls outperform boys in reading (representing a school domain stereotyped as female); boys often perform slightly better in math (a stereotypical male domain). Research has so far investigated the contribution of domain-specific academic self-concepts and interests as well…
Descriptors: Student Attitudes, Sex Role, Sex Stereotypes, Academic Aptitude
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