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Sarah Klevan; Melanie Leung-Gagné; Tomoko M. Nakajima – Learning Policy Institute, 2024
Across the United States, there is an increased interest in improving school climate, reflecting a deepening understanding of the foundational role that school climate can play in supporting students' well-being, learning, and development. School climate is constructed from norms, expectations, and interpersonal relationships that come together to…
Descriptors: Educational Environment, Middle Schools, School Districts, Data Use
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Tufan Inaltekin; Ugur Akbaba – International Journal of Contemporary Educational Research, 2024
The purpose of this study is to reveal middle school students' model understanding and information sources of incorrect model related to basic astronomy topics included in the Turkish middle school science curriculum. The study is a descriptive study focusing on qualitative data. The sample of the study includes 197 students (aged 12-13) attending…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Middle School Students, Grade 8, Science Education
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Michou, Aikaterini; Altan, Servet; Mouratidis, Athanasios; Reeve, Johnmarshall; Malmberg, Lars-Erik – Journal of Experimental Education, 2023
Research has shown that teachers' autonomy support and provision of structure relate to students' agentic and behavioral engagement. Moreover, agentic engagement elicits higher teacher autonomy support. In the present 5-week diary study, we investigated the dynamic nature of this interplay between teachers and students through their…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Middle School Students, Middle School Teachers, Learner Engagement
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Kaidbey, Mona; Zhen, Sui; Wong, Sylvia; Navchaa, Suren; Junjian, Gaoshan – American Journal of Sexuality Education, 2023
"Live streaming comprehensive sexuality education (CSE) to rural schools in China's western region" is an innovative program that was implemented by the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA), Marie Stopes International of China (MSIC), and the Chinese Family Planning Association (CFPA) between September and December 2020. An 8-week CSE…
Descriptors: Program Effectiveness, Sex Education, Technology Uses in Education, Video Technology
Deniz Ismailoff – ProQuest LLC, 2023
This qualitative case study served to investigate teachers' and students' experiences implementing BASE Education, an electronic learning (e-learning) platform for social and emotional learning (SEL), in an urban charter middle school in Paterson, New Jersey. Convenient purposeful sampling was used to recruit seven students and three…
Descriptors: Electronic Learning, Teacher Attitudes, Teaching Experience, Student Attitudes
Liza M. Fiorello – ProQuest LLC, 2023
Recent advancements in technology have created enriching and engaging learning opportunities in education. Today, online games are used more frequently in education in an attempt to engage students in learning activities and help increase student participation for students with and without disabilities. However, limited research has been conducted…
Descriptors: Teacher Attitudes, Middle School Teachers, Middle School Students, Students with Disabilities
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Felicity McLure; Mihye Won; David F. Treagust – International Journal of Science Education, 2023
Understanding mechanisms underpinning formation of convection currents is pivotal for developing explanations of plate tectonics when teaching Geoscience topics. While student generated diagrams explaining convection currents may be used to evaluate student conceptual understanding and alternative conceptions in this topic, students may need…
Descriptors: Earth Science, Grade 8, Visual Aids, Plate Tectonics
Melissa Hogan; Michelle Newstadt; Maneeza Dawood; Ilia Rushkin; Yigal Rosen – Online Submission, 2023
BrainPOP Science is a research-based program that has been shown to be effective in improving and quickly developing students' scientific reasoning skills. This white paper presents a comprehensive case study conducted in school districts in the Southeastern United States. BrainPOP Science is one of the leading supplemental middle school programs.…
Descriptors: Thinking Skills, Skill Development, Evidence, Logical Thinking
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Vettori, Giulia; Vezzani, Claudio; Bigozzi, Lucia; Pinto, Giuliana – European Journal of Psychology of Education, 2022
A person-oriented approach was applied to the study of early adolescents' learning orientations to identify different profiles and their association with school achievement. A total of 244 middle-school students (male: 128; female: 116; M-age ± SD = 12.51 ± 0.93) completed a self-report questionnaire to explore cognitive, metacognitive, and…
Descriptors: Profiles, Learning Strategies, Academic Achievement, Middle School Students
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Shockley, Ebony Terrell; Ellis, Valeisha M. – Middle School Journal, 2023
This study presents the perspectives and pedagogical practices of teachers who self-identify as social justice educators. Interviews with these social justice educators, who teach in large, diverse, metropolitan school districts, show that they create equitable spaces for their students. An analysis of the interview data concerning their beliefs…
Descriptors: Middle School Teachers, Social Justice, Culturally Relevant Education, Inclusion
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Uyanik, Sefa; Elbir, Dilara; Ozmen, Zeynep Medine – Pedagogical Research, 2023
This study aims to determine the graphical literacy levels of middle school mathematics teachers. The participants of the study consisted of 33 middle school mathematics teachers working in different provinces. The data of the study were collected with the help of the graphical literacy test created by the researchers. The data were analyzed by…
Descriptors: Graphs, Multiple Literacies, Middle School Teachers, Mathematics Teachers
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Kim, Keunjae; Kwon, Kyungbin; Ottenbreit-Leftwich, Anne; Bae, Haesol; Glazewski, Krista – Education and Information Technologies, 2023
This study aims to explore the middle schoolers' common naive conceptions of AI and the evolution of these conceptions during an AI summer camp. Data were collected from 14 middle school students (12 boys and 2 girls) from video observations and learning artifacts. The findings revealed 6 naive conceptions about AI concepts: (1) AI was the same as…
Descriptors: Middle School Students, Misconceptions, Artificial Intelligence, Summer Programs
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Kayman, Faruk; Elkatmis, Veysel – International Journal of Education and Literacy Studies, 2023
According to the Turkish Language Teaching Program prepared by the Ministry of National Education in Turkey, poetry texts should be included in Turkish textbooks taught in primary and secondary schools. Students encounter poetry texts in reading and writing activities in Turkish textbooks. It is thought that determining how students perceive the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Poetry, Textbooks, Middle School Students
Kimberly Monico-Rifi – ProQuest LLC, 2023
Although many children will experience a significant loss during their school-aged years, professional development and training around grief is extremely limited among teachers and school staff. In fact, according to Alvis et al. (2022), the field is lacking significantly in longitudinal studies that specifically focus on childhood grief. These…
Descriptors: Grief, Coping, School Counseling, Student Needs
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Dillon Simmons; J. Spencer Clark; Lori Goodson; Nooshin Darvishinia; Marzieh Ebrahimi – Journal of Technology and Teacher Education, 2023
Despite evidenced challenges compared to non-rural areas, rural communities are in a unique position to help address recent national demands for renewed STEM emphasis in schools (Saw & Agger, 2021). This study utilizes interviews from five rural educators who participated in a three-week STEM learning camp to discuss: 1) how teachers perceive…
Descriptors: Teacher Attitudes, STEM Education, Learning Experience, Rural Schools
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