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McCullough, J. Mac; Sunenshine, Rebecca; Rusinak, Ramona; Mead, Patty; England, Bob – Journal of School Nursing, 2020
School nurses often play large roles in implementation of school vaccination requirements aimed at controlling the spread of communicable disease. We analyzed the association between the presence of a school nurse and school-level vaccination rates in Arizona. Using school-level data from Arizona sixth-grade schools (n = 749), we regressed average…
Descriptors: School Nurses, Role, Immunization Programs, Health Promotion
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Park, Joonhyeong; Song, Jinwoong – Research in Science Education, 2020
In the process of problem solving, intuitive thinking leads to findings that go beyond gaps and plays a decisive role in problem solving. Considering that problems often need to be solved in groups rather than by individuals, it is necessary to examine how intuitive thinking expressed by individuals is shared and elaborated among peers in a group…
Descriptors: Elementary School Students, Grade 5, Grade 6, Intuition
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Erümit, Ali Kürsat; Sahin, Güven – International Journal of Computer Science Education in Schools, 2020
This study is an investigation of the effects of plugged and unplugged activities in a programming course using the Programming in Seven Steps (PSS) model on pupils' satisfaction and activity type preferences. A case study method was used in the classroom was the case. Data included students' diary, their responses on semi-structured interview…
Descriptors: Student Attitudes, Preferences, Programming, Computer Science Education
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Nilsson, Per – Journal for Research in Mathematics Education, 2020
This study introduces inferentialism and, particularly, the "Game of Giving and Asking for Reasons" (GoGAR), as a new theoretical perspective for investigating qualities of procedural and conceptual knowledge in mathematics. The study develops a framework in which procedural knowledge and conceptual knowledge are connected to limited and…
Descriptors: Mathematics Instruction, Grade 6, Discussion (Teaching Technique), Inferences
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Albalá Genol, Miguel Ángel; Gamero, Jesús Guerra – Electronic Journal of Research in Educational Psychology, 2020
Introduction: For decades the Social Justice concept in education has been studied alongside and the possible implications of its use as a tool to promote more prosocial societies. Based on Nancy Fraser's multidimensional Social Justice Model, a program was designed to promote prosociality in 6th grade primary school students. The main objectives…
Descriptors: Prosocial Behavior, Social Justice, Middle School Students, Grade 6
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Demiroz, Seva – Education Reform Journal, 2020
The aim of this study is to examine the relationship between secondary school students' perceptions of school climate, their school belonging and their academic achievement. This descriptive study uses the correlational survey model. The participants were 340 sixth and seventh graders at a secondary school in the 2007-2008 academic year. To this…
Descriptors: Student Attitudes, Educational Environment, Sense of Community, Academic Achievement
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Bingolbali, Erhan – International Journal of Mathematical Education in Science and Technology, 2020
This paper examines three elementary school mathematics textbooks (one textbook from each of 6th, 7th, and 8th grade) to determine to what extent these textbooks present questions with multiple outcomes and multiple solution methods. Document analysis as a qualitative research method is adopted. The findings reveal that only 8% of all three…
Descriptors: Textbooks, Mathematics Instruction, Elementary School Mathematics, Textbook Content
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Tillema, Erik S. – Mathematical Thinking and Learning: An International Journal, 2020
Two-hour long developmental teaching interviews were conducted with each of 14 sixth grade students, ages 11-12. The purposes of the interviews were to investigate how students solved arrangement problems (APs), and how their solutions of these problems differed from their solution of Cartesian product problems (CPPs). The 14 students represented…
Descriptors: Mathematics Instruction, Multiplication, Mathematical Concepts, Teaching Methods
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Daily, Shay M.; Mann, Michael J.; Lilly, Christa L.; Dyer, Angela M.; Smith, Megan L.; Kristjansson, Alfgeir L. – Journal of School Health, 2020
Background: Preventing student academic failure is crucial to student health and life success. Previous studies suggest a positive school climate may reduce students' risk for academic failure and contribute to academic success. The purpose of this study was to determine the longitudinal associations between school climate and academic grades in a…
Descriptors: Educational Environment, Grades (Scholastic), Middle School Students, Grade 6
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Çifci, Musa; Kaplan, Kadir – Journal of Language and Linguistic Studies, 2020
This study aimed to develop "Caricature Creation Rubric" which can be used to evaluate the products produced by 6th grade students at the end of their caricature creation process and to make its validity and reliability studies. The criteria in the graded key were determined by using the "Caricature Literacy Module" prepared by…
Descriptors: Cartoons, Scoring Rubrics, Evaluation Methods, Student Evaluation
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Tutar, Miyase; Karamustafaoglu, Orhan – International Journal of Curriculum and Instruction, 2020
This study is aimed to develop an adaptation test to determine the adaptation level of the 6th grade students about the concepts and topics to their daily life included in the unit ''Systems and Health in Our Body''. The test items were prepared by considering the reasons of the problems that they can encounter in their daily life about the…
Descriptors: Test Construction, Grade 6, Human Body, Health Education
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Delal, Havva; Oner, Diler – Informatics in Education, 2020
This study investigated the role of using unplugged computing activities on developing computational thinking (CT) skills of 6th-grade students. The unplugged computing classroom activities were based on the Bebras challenge, an international contest that aims to promote CT and informatics among school students of all ages. Participants of the…
Descriptors: Middle School Students, Computation, Thinking Skills, Grade 6
Johnston, Amanda C. – ProQuest LLC, 2020
Teacher talk is a major way in which instructors support and provide scaffolding for their students, frame their pedagogies, model ways of thinking, and convey ideas. Effective teacher talk about engineering design at all levels of students' educational experiences has the potential to better prepare students for success in engineering and…
Descriptors: Teacher Attitudes, Engineering Education, Design, Classroom Communication
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Karen Ramlackhan; Yan Wang – Urban Education, 2024
We used the Stanford education data archive (SEDA) data to examine the heterogeneity among urban school districts in the United States. The SEDA 2.1 includes data sets on students' mathematics (Math) and English language arts (ELA) achievement from 2008 to 2014 at the district level. Growth mixture modeling was used to uncover the underlying…
Descriptors: Urban Schools, Academic Achievement, Mathematics Education, English Curriculum
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Adrea J. Truckenmiller; Eunsoo Cho; Samantha Bourgeois; Ellie Friedman – Reading Teacher, 2024
The purpose of this article was to offer guidance to educators in evaluating the strengths, weaknesses, and most effective uses of commercial reading assessment suites. We provide three resources to help educators who are responsible for making instructional decisions in reading using formal screening, benchmark, interim, and progress-monitoring…
Descriptors: Elementary Schools, Decision Making, Reading Achievement, Evaluation Methods
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