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Saidi, Siti Shahirah; Siew, Nyet Moi – International Journal of Educational Methodology, 2019
Positive attitude towards statistics is a desirable aspect in developing statistical thinking and understanding statistical concept. The attitude towards statistics instrument in previous study on rural school students lacked evidence in the validity analysis. Therefore, there is a need to provide a valid instrument that can assess rural secondary…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Attitude Measures, Likert Scales, Surveys
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Wang, Ya-Ling; Tsai, Chin-Chung – Research in Science Education, 2019
Students' conceptions of learning science and their relations with motive for learning may vary as the education level increases. This study aimed to compare the quantitative patterns in students' conceptions of learning science (COLS) and motives for learning science (MLS) across grade levels by adopting two survey instruments. A total of 768…
Descriptors: High School Students, Student Motivation, Instructional Program Divisions, Foreign Countries
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Wallace, Derron – International Studies in Sociology of Education, 2019
Drawing on 48 in-depth interviews with Black immigrant and second-generation boys at Bridgewood secondary school in New York City, this article points out how the high educational aspirations expressed by Black African and Caribbean boys are strategically deployed as features of an ethnic project to counter anti-immigrant sentiments and anti-Black…
Descriptors: Blacks, Immigrants, Secondary School Students, Academic Aspiration
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Pimvichai, Jirutthitikan; Buaraphan, Khajornsak – International Journal of Education and Practice, 2019
This study aims to develop a training workshop to promote the in-service science teachers' ability to teach the topic of Force and Motion to grade 10 students by using the Science-Technology-Society (STS) approach and explore its impacts on students' scientific argumentation patterns. The research methodology was a case study with one…
Descriptors: Science Teachers, Science and Society, Scientific Literacy, Persuasive Discourse
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Moreira, Patricia; Marzabal, Ainoa; Talanquer, Vicente – Chemistry Education Research and Practice, 2019
The central goal of this research study was to characterise the different types of reasoning manifested by high school chemistry students when building initial written explanations of a natural phenomenon. In particular, our study participants were asked to explain why a mixture of water and alcohol works as an antifreeze. Data collected in the…
Descriptors: Logical Thinking, Chemistry, Science Instruction, Scientific Concepts
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Philp, Hannah – Changing English: Studies in Culture and Education, 2019
This article looks at the ways in which the semiotics of authority are established and challenged during a secondary school English lesson on "The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde". I focus on the utterances of one student and the context of the classroom in which she finds herself as a means to explore the ways in which pedagogic…
Descriptors: Semiotics, Secondary School Teachers, English Teachers, English Instruction
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Blanco, Megan – State Education Standard, 2019
A number of states have taken steps toward promoting student wellness, with many of their state boards of education in the middle of the action. This article contains some examples of states leading on student wellness by addressing physical fitness, social and emotional learning (SEL), and mental health supports. The Every Student Succeeds Act…
Descriptors: Wellness, Child Health, Physical Fitness, Social Development
Woolever, Jennifer L. – ProQuest LLC, 2019
This study examined student perceptions towards testing mandates. The specific purpose was to gain an understanding into the perceptions students have towards testing mandates and determine their perceived value in the areas of (1) Improvement, (2) External Attribution, (3) Affective Benefits, and (4) Irrelevance. In analyzing the perceptions of…
Descriptors: Student Attitudes, Testing, Academic Achievement, Predictor Variables
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Trang, Nguyen Huynh; Anh, Khau Hoang – International Journal of Instruction, 2022
Writing is one of the four important skills in learning a foreign language. However, most high school students find it uneasy to write due to many different both objective and subjective reasons. Finding effective solutions to this problem is always appreciated. This study, therefore, hopes to investigate whether peer feedback has any positive…
Descriptors: High School Students, Peer Evaluation, Student Attitudes, Feedback (Response)
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Prior-Grosch, Ariadne; Woodruff, Karen – Science Teacher, 2022
Fall 2020 presented myriad challenges for teachers trying to plan curricula to meet students' social-emotional and learning needs following an unprecedented spring and summer of isolation and loss due to the pandemic caused by SARS-CoV-2 (Rivera and Wallace 2020). The result of creative planning and adjusting of curricula for remote instruction…
Descriptors: COVID-19, Pandemics, School Closing, Distance Education
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Chandrasoma, Ranamukalage – Curriculum Journal, 2022
Community service education (CSE) in developing countries still remains under-represented in research. Addressing this gap, this article reports a study that investigated a CSE activity at a secondary school in Sri Lanka. The participants of this study comprised 10 English as a second language (ESL) teachers from four secondary schools, 68 Grade…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, English (Second Language), Service Learning
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Weinhandl, Robert; Lavicza, Zsolt; Houghton, Tony; Hohenwarter, Markus – International Journal of Mathematical Education in Science and Technology, 2022
This study aims to uncover some key elements of successful home-learning of mathematics, based on students' perceptions, during the COVID-19 pandemic and offer recommendations for mathematics learning beyond the crisis. Throughout our work, we aimed to examine students' reflections on mathematics learning and learning environments that assisted…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Secondary School Students, Mathematics Instruction, COVID-19
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Evans, Michael; Fisher, Linda – Language Learning Journal, 2022
Ofsted's 2021 Curriculum Research Review outlines a language pedagogy predicated on an exclusively cognitivist approach to language learning, which relies on three 'pillars of progression': phonics, vocabulary and grammar. The review makes a brief acknowledgement of the importance of motivational factors, including 'pupils' positive views of…
Descriptors: Self Concept, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Multilingualism
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Panyajamorn, Titie; Suanmali, Suthathip; Kohda, Youji – Journal of Educators Online, 2022
This study investigates the effectiveness and knowledge retention of elearning models that could solve education problems in rural areas by considering two different examples: massive online open courses (MOOCs) and gamification hybrid learning. The study also proposes suitable and effective features that could influence student abilities in the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, MOOCs, Public Schools, Program Effectiveness
Qamrah Alsubaie – ProQuest LLC, 2022
This study explored students' perceptions of classroom quality in gifted and non-gifted education settings in Saudi Arabia. The researcher used the Zone of Proximal Development theory and Expectancy Value Theory to frame the study. The research was conducted across three public schools (458 students) and two private schools (353 students) that…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Student Attitudes, Educational Quality, Gifted Education
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