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Geletu, Girma Moti – Cogent Education, 2022
The study evaluated the effects of teachers' professional and pedagogical competencies on implementing cooperative learning method and enhancing students' learning engagement and outcomes in science. The study employed randomized controlled trials method. The pretest-posttest data were analyzed by using two-tailed t-test and ANCOVA to either…
Descriptors: Teacher Competencies, Cooperative Learning, Science Instruction, Learner Engagement
García-González, Luis; Santed, Mónica; Escolano-Pérez, Elena; Fernández-Río, Javier – European Physical Education Review, 2023
Despite the research exploring the benefits of using cooperative learning in secondary physical education, several research gaps still remain, namely, limited research on its effects on prosocial behaviours, the impact on adolescents as they grow up, and the lack of assessment of differently structured cooperative learning frameworks. The goal of…
Descriptors: Secondary School Students, Physical Education, Prosocial Behavior, Age Differences
Van Ryzin, Mark J.; Roseth, Cary J.; Low, Sabina; Loan, Christopher M. – Journal of School Violence, 2022
Peer victimization represents a pervasive problem, particularly for students in middle school. Although curriculum-based prevention programs have generated small to moderate effects on victimization, these effects tend to weaken beginning with the transition to middle school. In this study, we evaluated cooperative learning (CL) as a mechanism to…
Descriptors: Peer Relationship, Victims, Middle School Students, Student Behavior
Lagoudakis, Nektarios; Vlachos, Filippos; Christidou, Vasilia; Vavougios, Denis – Cogent Education, 2022
Brain-Based Learning (BBL) is an educational theoretical framework based on principles that derive from important findings about the structure and function of the brain through biology, psychology, and neuroscientific research, and forms a holistic context for a comprehensive instructional approach design. In the present study, a teaching…
Descriptors: Instructional Effectiveness, Neurosciences, Teaching Methods, Science Instruction
Chapman, Bailey N.; Drevon, Daniel D.; Jasper, Andrea D. – Journal of Behavioral Education, 2023
The Quiet Classroom Game (Radley in School Psychological Review 45: 93-108, 2016) is a class-wide behavior intervention involving an interdependent group contingency based on classroom noise level. It has been shown to be effective at increasing academically engaged behavior, decreasing disruptive behavior, and decreasing classroom noise level in…
Descriptors: Middle School Students, Grade 7, Classroom Environment, Student Behavior
McMaster, Kristen L.; Baker, Kristi; Donegan, Rachel; Hugh, Maria; Sargent, Katherine – Remedial and Special Education, 2021
Many educators are unprepared to meet the needs of students with the most intensive reading intervention needs. The purpose of this review was to identify how researchers have provided professional development (PD) to support educators' implementation of intensive reading interventions, the extent to which these approaches included essential PD…
Descriptors: Faculty Development, Reading Instruction, Reading Difficulties, Intervention
Sanders, Sarah Connell; Lang, James M. – Jossey-Bass, An Imprint of Wiley, 2022
In "Small Teaching K-8," a team of veteran educators bridges the gap between cognitive theory and the K-8 classroom environment, applying the same foundational research found in author James Lang's bestselling "Small Teaching: Everyday Lessons from the Science of Learning" to the elementary and middle school setting. Via clear…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Outcomes of Education, Kindergarten, Elementary School Students
Ochsen, Sabrina; Bernholt, Andrea; Grund, Simon; Bernholt, Sascha – International Journal of Science Education, 2023
Students' interest is considered an important learning outcome, but it is also a relevant predictor for student learning, and future vocational choices. According to numerous studies, however, students' interest in STEM fields usually declines during the course of secondary education. From the perspective of science education, it is therefore…
Descriptors: Formative Evaluation, Grade 9, Chemistry, Science Instruction
Tabor, Shannon M.; Van Bavel, Marisa; Fellner, Karlee D.; Schwartz, Kelly Dean; Black, Theron; Black Water, Clarence; Crop Eared Wolf, Star; Day Chief, Perry; Krugar, Deon; Monroe, Lauren, Jr.; Pepion, John – Canadian Journal of School Psychology, 2023
Art and Indigenous culture are inseparable. From the immaculately decorated lodges and war shirts of thousands of years to contemporary mixed and digital media images, Indigenous arts are expressions of survivance. Creative arts have sustained Indigenous ways of knowing, being, doing, and healing through attempted cultural genocide. Research has…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Indigenous Populations, Indigenous Knowledge, Artists
Anglum, J. Cameron; Desimone, Laura M.; Hill, Kirsten Lee – Teachers College Record, 2020
Context: This study analyzes the implementation of a blended learning middle school mathematics intervention in a large urban school district in the northeastern United States. Blended learning models integrate online instructional tools within traditional methods of classroom instruction. Focus of Study: As their use increases in classrooms…
Descriptors: Technology Integration, Computer Software, Blended Learning, Middle School Mathematics
Popa, Carmen Alina; Bochi?, Laura Nicoleta; Chi?, Simona – Acta Didactica Napocensia, 2020
The hereby research study is intended to assess the effectiveness of an intervention program built on the integrated teaching strategies of the unit contents in readiness grade by using integrated lesson projects and cooperative group methods that should lead to the development of cooperative skills, positive interpersonal relationship, but also…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Integrated Curriculum, Integrated Activities, Program Effectiveness
Barcelona, Jeanne M.; Centeio, Erin E.; Hijazi, Kowsar; Pedder, Christine – Journal of School Health, 2022
Background: Given levels of sedentary behavior among youth, teachers have been called upon to increase physical activity (PA) by implementing classroom PA breaks. School-based interventions enacted in classroom settings have shown promise in increasing youth PA. Yet little is known about how teacher efficacy toward implementing classroom PA breaks…
Descriptors: Intervention, Physical Activities, Physical Activity Level, Exercise
Radoff, Anna – Center for Cities & Schools, 2018
Oakland Unified School District (OUSD) faces increasing teacher attrition and unsustainable levels of stress among teachers. Citywide pressures, such gentrification and lack of transportation, impact schools and teachers. OUSD currently has wellness programs both district provided (the Office of Health and Wellness) and through district…
Descriptors: Leadership Responsibility, Administrator Role, Principals, Trauma
Gutierrez de Blume, Antonio P.; Katz, Anne; Bass, Jenna – Journal of Research in Reading, 2021
Background: Reading comprehension is an essential skill not only during learning but also to successfully navigate everyday life. However, reading comprehension is a task that is challenging even among some adept readers. Thus, in the present investigation, we explored how to improve reading comprehension skills among a sample of middle school…
Descriptors: Reading Comprehension, Rural Areas, Middle School Students, Pretests Posttests
Stephane Roberson – ProQuest LLC, 2023
There has been a deliberate attempt to close the achievement gap by altering educational policies, yet the gap still exists. This phenomenology qualitative study sought teachers' opinions on whether STEM was seen as an effective intervention strategy for closing the achievement gap among African American students, and if so, why it wasn't used…
Descriptors: Teacher Attitudes, STEM Education, Achievement Gap, African American Students