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Angela Gaffney Brown – ProQuest LLC, 2024
This study aimed to explore if there was a significant difference in student performance in ELA and Math in middle school grades six through eight, pre- and post-COVID-19. This study aimed to identify student performance deficiencies in grades six through eight relating to gender, socioeconomic status, and race. The significance of this study is…
Descriptors: COVID-19, Pandemics, Academic Achievement, Language Arts
Melissa F. Cochran – ProQuest LLC, 2024
This qualitative study explored teachers' perceptions of barriers to parental involvement in a Title 1 middle school. The researcher collected data through interviews wherein participants responded to open-ended questions. The data was analyzed using qualitative content analysis (QCA). The results include input from seven general education…
Descriptors: Disadvantaged, Middle School Teachers, Teacher Attitudes, Parent Participation
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Beverly Cheri Neal – International Journal of Educational Administration and Policy Studies, 2024
The purpose of the study was to better understand the extent to which middle school principals' transformational leadership styles affect teachers' data-informed instruction, the influence of teachers' data-informed instruction on middle school student achievement, and the extent to which transformational leaders affect student achievement through…
Descriptors: Transformational Leadership, Data Use, Teaching Methods, Academic Achievement
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Cristina Menescardi; Aida Carballo-Fazanes; Núria Ortega-Benavent; Isaac Estevan – Journal of Motor Learning and Development, 2024
The Canadian Agility and Movement Skill Assessment (CAMSA) is a valid and reliable circuit-based test of motor competence which can be used to assess children's skills in a live or recorded performance and then coded. We aimed to analyze the intrarater reliability of the CAMSA scores (total, time, and skill score) and time measured, by comparing…
Descriptors: Interrater Reliability, Evaluators, Scoring, Psychomotor Skills
Jessica Cervano – ProQuest LLC, 2024
Students struggling with reading in secondary school are between "learning to read" and "reading to learn." Struggling readers require metacognitive and cognitive reading skills to tackle the complexities of reading. Combining the research of worked-examples and think-aloud shaped the instructional intervention in this study.…
Descriptors: Reading Comprehension, Protocol Analysis, Secondary School Students, Reading Difficulties
John Rogerson – ProQuest LLC, 2024
This study examined differences in middle school English Language Arts (ELA) proficiency between pre-pandemic (2019) and post-pandemic (2022) assessments to understand the COVID-19 impact on learning, particularly among vulnerable groups. Grounded in adaptive leadership theory, the research focused on free and reduced-price lunch (FRL) and English…
Descriptors: COVID-19, Pandemics, Middle School Students, Language Arts
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Kari Dalane; Dave E. Marcotte – Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis, 2024
The share of students attending charter schools has been rising. There is evidence that charter school growth has increased socioeconomic segregation of students between schools. In this paper, we assess whether charter school growth affects how students are organized within nearby traditional public schools (TPS). We use administrative data from…
Descriptors: Charter Schools, School Segregation, Public Schools, Traditional Schools
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Gabriela Gniewosz; Burkhard Gniewosz – Journal of Early Adolescence, 2025
Discrepancies among family members' ratings on aspects of family functioning are challenging both, methodological and interpretational. Family members' perspectives and their discrepancies are indicators of family functioning, affecting adolescents' psychological development. Previous research focused on linear effects, ignoring that rather…
Descriptors: Mothers, Parent Child Relationship, Positive Attitudes, Child Rearing
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Xiang, Lin; Goodpaster, Sagan; Mitchell, April – Journal of Science Education and Technology, 2022
The "Next Generation Science Standards" call for engaging K-12 students in three-dimensional learning, in which students make sense of phenomena or solve problems by simultaneously using science and engineering practices (SEPs), crosscutting concepts (CCCs), and disciplinary core ideas (DCIs). Decades of education research suggest…
Descriptors: Grade 6, Elementary School Students, Ecology, Scientific Concepts
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Toma, Radu Bogdan – Canadian Journal of Science, Mathematics and Technology Education, 2022
Guided and open inquiry stands as a valuable instructional strategy for science education. Yet, confirmation and structured inquiry, which provides higher levels of teacher guidance, is more often enacted. These approaches, though more workable, remain unexplored in their effectiveness in improving achievement motivations. This study draws on…
Descriptors: Inquiry, Learning Strategies, Classroom Techniques, Science Education
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Bjärehed, Marlene – Psychology in the Schools, 2022
This short-term longitudinal study examined whether individual moral disengagement and classroom collective moral disengagement were associated with offline and online bullying over the course of 1 year. Multilevel growth modeling with three levels was used to analyze data from a sample of 1048 Swedish students in 68 classrooms. The students…
Descriptors: Bullying, Student Behavior, Computer Mediated Communication, Grade 5
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Tibken, Catharina; Richter, Tobias; von der Linden, Nicole; Schmiedeler, Sandra; Schneider, Wolfgang – Child Development, 2022
Gifted underachievers perform worse in school than would be expected based on their high intelligence. Possible causes for underachievement are low motivational dispositions (need for cognition) and metacognitive competences. This study tested the interplay of these variables longitudinally with gifted and non-gifted students from Germany…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Metacognition, Academically Gifted, Grade 6
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Son, Ji-Won; Jo, Seungjung; Wallace, Samantha; Obielodan, Florence F. – North American Chapter of the International Group for the Psychology of Mathematics Education, 2022
The purpose of this study is to examine how proportional reasoning is introduced and developed in two widely used U.S. and Korean mathematics textbooks for grades 6-7. Seven research-based frameworks that identify student learning opportunities for understanding of proportional reasoning were used to analyze the textbooks. The results showed that…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Mathematical Concepts, Mathematical Logic, Mathematics Education
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Faruhana, Abdullah; Asniza, Ishak Nor; Zohir, Ahmad Mohammad – Journal of Turkish Science Education, 2022
Children worldwide are increasingly deprived of direct nature experiences (DNE). Often rooted in restrictions of urbanization and modernization, this loss may hamper biodiversity conservation through erosion of biodiversity knowledge. Yet, the extent of this phenomenon in small cities, particularly in rapidly developing islands, remains…
Descriptors: Experiential Learning, Biodiversity, Natural Resources, Outdoor Education
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Polat, Elif; Yilmaz, Rabia Meryem – Education and Information Technologies, 2022
The aim of this study is to compare the effects of unplugged and plugged-in activities on academic achievement and computational thinking (CT) skills of sixth-grade students. Mixed-method research was carried out to explore whether there were differences between the groups, and to learn the students' opinions and experiences regarding the…
Descriptors: Learning Activities, Programming, Computer Science Education, Computation
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