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Jin, Qingna; Kim, Mijung; Wong, Suzanna – Alberta Journal of Educational Research, 2023
Supporting students to become critical consumers of online information is one of the most urgent agendas in education today. In schools around the world, students are engaging in online information problem solving (IPS) tasks to develop critical thinking and problem-solving skills by searching and evaluating online information. This qualitative…
Descriptors: Elementary School Students, Problem Solving, Information Literacy, Science Education
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Chi Kai Lam – Alberta Journal of Educational Research, 2023
In 1967, The Tanglewood Symposium was convened in the United States to address the multifaceted issues in music education. The discussion in the Symposium led to the creation of the Tanglewood Declaration, which includes eight statements of implications and recommendations for the music curriculum and has been considered a critical part of the…
Descriptors: Music Education, Foreign Countries, Junior High Schools, Cultural Pluralism
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Hüsnüye Durmaz; Medat Mutlu – Alberta Journal of Educational Research, 2023
We investigated the effects of guided inquiry-based laboratory activities on the perceptions of the research skills and inquiry learning skills in science of 5th grade students. The sample of this study consisted of 38 students enrolled in a public secondary school located in the northwest part of Türkiye. This study is based on the non-equivalent…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Grade 5, Secondary School Students, Active Learning
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Bayar, Mirac Furkan; Tas, Yasemin – Alberta Journal of Educational Research, 2022
This study aimed to investigate the effects of robotic coding supported Design-Based Science Instruction (RC-DBSI) on sixth-grade students' science process skills. One-group pretest-posttest experimental design was employed in the study. Participants consisted of thirty-nine sixth-grade students enrolled in a public middle school located in the…
Descriptors: Robotics, Programming, Design, Science Instruction
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Cunningham, Malcolm – Alberta Journal of Educational Research, 2016
Current quantitative gender and mathematics research exists as separate ability and postsecondary access studies, each drawing different conclusions. But if gender, achievement and enrollment (measurable proxies) are modeled together it will be possible to investigate possible associations. Using 106,473 standardized Grades 3, 6 and 9 Ontario…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Gender Differences, Mathematics Education, Mathematics Achievement
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Schulz, Henry W.; FitzPatrick, Beverly – Alberta Journal of Educational Research, 2016
Critical and higher order thinking is essential to education, but it is not clear what teachers understand this to mean and what role this has in their instruction. We interviewed 38 teachers in Kindergarten to Grade 9 classrooms from 14 schools in Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada, to obtain their understandings of critical and higher order…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Teacher Attitudes, Elementary School Teachers, Middle School Teachers
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Klein, Perry D.; Ehrhardt, Jacqueline S. – Alberta Journal of Educational Research, 2015
Argumentation can contribute significantly to content area learning. Recent research has raised questions about the effects of discussion (deliberation) goals versus persuasion (disputation) goals on reasoning and learning. This is the first study to compare the effects of these writing goals on individual writing to learn. Grade 7 and 8 students…
Descriptors: Persuasive Discourse, Discussion, Student Educational Objectives, Abstract Reasoning
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Robinson, Daniel B. – Alberta Journal of Educational Research, 2012
This article describes a recent study that investigated the physical education (PE) beliefs of a particular population of students (i.e., female and male students in Grades 4 through 10 from a single school stream). Through their completion of an adapted survey, students (N = 506) were able to share their PE beliefs in relation to five separate…
Descriptors: Physical Education, Educational Change, Gender Differences, Beliefs
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Mishna, Faye; Muskat, Barbara; Farnia, Fataneh; Wiener, Judith – Alberta Journal of Educational Research, 2011
A school-based study examined self-reported self-advocacy knowledge of middle school students with learning disabilities (LD). Children with LD are vulnerable to experiencing psychosocial and academic problems. Self-advocacy is a protective factor as students with LD enter middle and high school, comprising knowledge of one's learning strengths…
Descriptors: Middle School Students, Learning Disabilities, Self Advocacy, Knowledge Level
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Anderson, Chris G.; Rawana, Edward P.; Brownlee, Keith; Whitley, Jessica – Alberta Journal of Educational Research, 2010
This study explored the association between psychological strengths and perceptions of being a victim of a bullying relationship in the school environment. Using self-report questionnaires with grades 7 and 8 students, the role of psychological strengths as potential protective factors against various forms of bullying were examined including the…
Descriptors: Middle Schools, Bullying, Grade 7, Grade 8
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McClay, Jill Kedersha – Alberta Journal of Educational Research, 2006
Multiliteracies theory, with an emphasis on literacy as diverse and negotiated social practices involving multimodal work, is particularly compatible with collaborative research, as such research enables researchers and teachers to consider students' multiple perspectives and intentions for their work. This article discusses three collaborative…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Literacy, Cooperation, Middle School Students