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Direct linkHouse, J, Daniel; Telese, James A. – Education, 2013
Effective teaching practice for improving student achievement in mathematics is a critical area for instructional design. Further, results from international assessments of mathematics achievement have indicated that students in Korea typically earned test scores higher then international averages. The purpose of this study was to investigate the…
Descriptors: Mathematics Instruction, Mathematics Achievement, Grade 8, Middle School Students
Korkmaz, Murat; Esen, Binnaz Kiran – Education, 2013
The aim of this study is to design and evaluate a peer-training program about changing students' internet use habits. This study was conducted with students from two different elementary schools in Mersin, Turkey, who were enrolled in 7th or 8th grade in the 2009-2010 academic year. A total of 24 students participated in the program, 12 of…
Descriptors: Peer Teaching, Elementary School Students, Foreign Countries, Experimental Colleges
Sezer, Renan; Guner, Necdet; Ispir, Oylum Akkus – Education, 2012
Turkish elementary mathematics program was revised in 2005. In 2011, Turkey participated in TIMSS at the 4th-grade level for the first time. 4th graders were educated using the new curriculum and thus their success rate on TIMSS can be considered as an evaluation of the new program. This study investigated Turkish 4th grade teachers' expectation…
Descriptors: Prior Learning, Foreign Countries, Educational Change, Data Analysis
Dan, Yongjun; Todd, Reese; Lan, William – Education, 2010
The purpose of this study was to re-examine the consensus and difference in American students' understanding of national history, on which there were divergent research results. With three sets of questions that examined students' perspectives of the collective memory, historical significance, and credibility of historical sources, we found that…
Descriptors: United States History, History Instruction, Student Attitudes, Hispanic Americans
Kesici, Sahin; Erdogan, Ahmet – Education, 2010
The purpose of this study is to clarify whether middle school students' mathematics anxiety differentiates or not, according to their low and high achievement motivation and their level of self-esteem stemming from social comparison. This study also aims to clarify the effects of these two variables on mathematics anxiety. The study groups were…
Descriptors: Middle School Students, Low Achievement, High Achievement, Grade 8
Durmuscelebi, Mustafa – Education, 2010
The aim of this study is to evaluate the new Turkish education program that has been being implemented since 2005 gradually in light of teacher suggestions. The study has been done in scanning model. In this study which has been conducted with the purpose of evaluating the newly prepared Turkish education programs, the program has been tried to be…
Descriptors: Teacher Surveys, Change Strategies, Educational Change, Foreign Countries
Kose, Sacit; Sahin, Abdurrahman; Ergun, Aysegul; Gezer, Kutret – Education, 2010
Effective teaching and learning of science depends on the selected teaching method touching students' most learning senses. This study investigated the effects of cooperative learning on eighth grade students' achievement and attitude toward science. Participants were 68 students from two different eighth grade classrooms in an elementary school.…
Descriptors: Teacher Effectiveness, Science Achievement, Cooperative Learning, Grade 8
Oppedisano, Veruska; Turati, Gilberto – Education Economics, 2015
This paper provides evidence on the sources of differences in inequality in educational scores and their evolution over time in four European countries. Using Programme for International Student Assessment data from the 2000 and the 2006 waves, the paper shows that inequality decreased in Germany and Spain (two "decentralised" schooling…
Descriptors: Evidence, Equal Education, Etiology, Educational Development
Akinoglu, Orhan – Education, 2008
Aim of the study is to assess the project works and application processes in science education of 6th, 7th and 8th grades in primary education upon teachers' perspectives. The research was fulfilled upon the descriptive survey model to collect data. Participants of the research were 90 teachers, having project management experience in science…
Descriptors: Inquiry, Active Learning, Science Projects, Student Projects
Baugher, Robin; Nichols, Joe – Education, 2008
Concerned that their special education students were not being adequately prepared for the post-high school world, a rural Arkansas school district made a concerted effort to provide a systematic transition program in which opportunities for life after graduation could become a meaningful reality. A significant component of the transition program…
Descriptors: Rural Schools, School Districts, Secondary School Students, Disabilities
Akengin, Hamza – Education, 2008
Developed communities make the children's right education a major part of the primary education, relating it with the human rights education. There are two sides with respect to the children's rights: the children themselves and their family and the school that have rights and interests in them and that determine the radius of action of children…
Descriptors: Social Justice, Grade 8, Early Adolescents, Citizenship Education
Ogden, William R. – Education, 2008
With tongue tentatively hovering in the direction of the distal side of the tooth line and the lining of the inner cheek, the author suggests terminating the elementary school years with the seventh grade and requiring completion of nine to twelve months of paid work experience before the resumption of high school. Maintaining that a practical…
Descriptors: Grade 8, Student Experience, Middle School Students, Developmental Stages
McGee, Ebony O.; Pearman, F. Alvin, II – Urban Education, 2014
Within urban elementary schools are Black students who continue to challenge the normative deficit characterization of the educational opportunities of students like them. This study attempts to provide a more holistic picture of the scholarly trajectories of 13 African American males who are particularly talented in mathematics and who attended…
Descriptors: Urban Schools, At Risk Students, Resilience (Psychology), Mathematics Achievement
Paccagnella, Marco; Sestito, Paolo – Education Economics, 2014
In this paper we investigate the relationship between social capital and cheating behaviour in standardized tests. Given the low-stakes nature of these tests, we interpret the widespread presence of cheating as a signal of low trust towards central education authorities and as lack of respect for the rule of law. We find that cheating is…
Descriptors: Social Capital, Cheating, Standardized Tests, Student Behavior
Mota, A. R.; Lopes dos Santos, J. M. B. – Physics Education, 2014
Students' misconceptions concerning colour phenomena and the apparent complexity of the underlying concepts--due to the different domains of knowledge involved--make its teaching very difficult. We have developed and tested a teaching device, the addition table of colours (ATC), that encompasses additive and subtractive mixtures in a single…
Descriptors: Color, Misconceptions, Science Instruction, Scientific Concepts
