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Download full textKaty Farber; Rachel Mark – Middle Grades Review, 2024
How do service learning and self-directed learning connect and what are the implications for early adolescent students? The authors explore both the service learning and self-directed learning literature and research to discover the connections between the two approaches and concepts. This essay reviews existing frameworks for self-directed…
Descriptors: Independent Study, Service Learning, Early Adolescents, Student Development
Direct linkEfsun Birtwistle; Olga Chernikova; Miriam Wünsch; Frank Niklas – SAGE Open, 2025
We investigated the effect of cognitive training of executive functions on children's cognitive outcomes. To address this issue, a systematic meta-analysis of published research articles on cognitive training interventions was performed considering children's age, training duration, -procedure, and -technology in moderator analyses. The results (N…
Descriptors: Preschool Children, Elementary School Students, Middle School Students, Executive Function
Cathy Weng; Kifle Kassaw; Pei-Shan Tsai; Tsai-Ju Lee – Education and Information Technologies, 2024
This study aimed to make and introduce a curriculum in Taiwan for fifth-grade students, merging Scratch animation with the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). The curriculum combined the Scratch Reflective AI digital learning platform with conventional teaching methods to assess its effect on students' empathy, self-efficacy, and scriptwriting…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Elementary School Students, Grade 5, Sustainable Development
Nisha Acharya Julien – Journal for Leadership and Instruction, 2025
The purpose of this article is to address the importance of beliefs middle school general education teachers hold and how those beliefs have an impact on students they are teaching, especially SWDs within the inclusion classroom. This article considers the following: (a) defining inclusion classrooms; (b) how are teachers beliefs constructed; (c)…
Descriptors: Teacher Attitudes, Middle School Teachers, Beliefs, Students with Disabilities
Hajimu Hayashi; Ayumi Matsumoto; Minehiro Akagawa – European Journal of Developmental Psychology, 2025
This study examined the development of the evaluation of praise that differs in congruence between what the praiser is praising (i.e. effort or ability) and what led the recipient to succeed. Children aged 7 and 8 years (second graders) and 10 and 11 years (fifth graders), as well as adults, made emotional and motivational evaluations about…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Elementary School Students, Grade 2, Grade 5
Shaylyn Marks; Alice Hays; Tim Monreal; Amardeep Bajwa – Voices from the Middle, 2024
Inspired by the work of Muhammad (2020) and building upon the previous work of Hays (2021) in using young adolescent literature as a tool for social change, the authors highlight the ways in which educators such as Amardeep Bajwa can cultivate students' intellect through literature circle-based activities. More specifically, Hays worked with local…
Descriptors: Adolescent Literature, Social Change, Teaching Methods, Learning Activities
Heather Hodge – ProQuest LLC, 2024
This quantitative study examined the impact of professional learning communities (PLCs) implementing a "Focus on Learning" in a Title I school in north central Georgia. The purpose of this study was to determine the impact PLCs can have on student growth and achievement in fourth and fifth-grade mathematics, once teachers spend time…
Descriptors: Elementary School Mathematics, Student Development, Communities of Practice, Federal Programs
Johanna S. Quinn; E. Danielle Roberts; Wei-Lin Chen; Rachael Doubledee; Jennifer Brown Urban; Miriam R. Linver – Journal of Adolescent Research, 2024
This paper focuses on data from a study of middle- to upper-middle class Scottish S2 ([approximately]seventh grade) students who participated in Inspiring Purpose, a school-based character development program, during the 2016 to 2017 school year. Directed by their teachers, participating youth reflected on values and future aspirations and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Middle Class, Middle School Students, Grade 7
Moon, Peter F.; Himmelsbach, Joshua; Weintrop, David; Walkoe, Janet – Journal of Pedagogical Research, 2023
Computational thinking (CT) has the potential to enhance learning when integrated into mathematical classroom activities. Teachers are being asked to include CT concepts in their core disciplines; however, there is an open question as to how best to equip teachers to integrate CT into their practice. Oftentimes teacher candidates enter math and…
Descriptors: Methods Courses, Mathematics Education, Science Education, Computation
Lashaunda M. Terry-Johnson – ProQuest LLC, 2024
This study aimed to investigate the correlation between the emotional intelligence (EI) of K-12 school principals with student outcomes that included: student achievement, student growth, and student attendance. The participants in this student included principals form various schools in the state of Tennessee. The data from this mixed method…
Descriptors: Principals, Elementary Secondary Education, Emotional Intelligence, Elementary School Students
Sophie Russell; Jane S. Herbert; Amy L. Bird – Journal of Cognition and Development, 2024
Research has shown links between parent-child emotion reminiscing and socio-emotional outcomes, yet little research has investigated why parents talk about emotions with their children and how this relates to children's development. The purpose of this study was to explore how parents' self-reported goals and observed behavior in emotion…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Elementary School Students, Middle School Students, Recall (Psychology)
Julia Shields Chrestay; Kyra Atterbury, Contributor; Janet Chance, Contributor; Stecy Mbemba, Contributor; Helena Miller, Contributor; Joe Alberti, Contributor; Sara Caselle, Contributor; Suzanne Cilli, Contributor; Katherine Collier, Contributor; Erica Darken, Contributor; Emily Goedde, Contributor; Rochelle Krauss, Contributor; Bernadine Magee, Contributor; Noga Newberg, Contributor; An Nguyen, Contributor; Candice Smith, Contributor – Penn GSE Perspectives on Urban Education, 2024
Need in Deed's work with Philadelphia public school teachers and their students centers empathy, informed investigation, and civic action. Bolstered by these values and with the support of the My Voice framework and dedicated Need in Deed staff, educators are equipped to co-create authentic classroom communities with their students. In Need in…
Descriptors: Intelligence, Citizen Participation, Public School Teachers, Empathy
Atsushi Sakai; Hiroto Murohashi; Seiji Watanabe – Journal of Adolescence, 2025
Introduction: This study aims to investigate how mother-adolescent relationships evolved before and during the COVID-19 pandemic and their correlation with pandemic-related stress and adolescents' psychological distress. Methods: A longitudinal study involving 579 mother-adolescent dyads (junior high school students at Time 1; 50% male students)…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Junior High School Students, Mothers, COVID-19
André J. Branch – Teachers College Press, 2025
Teachers share their stories, detailing how their own ethnic identity development transformed their teaching and their ability to connect with their students. The text includes research that informs the discussion of important issues such as "code switching," "acting White," "the importance of familial and given…
Descriptors: Self Concept, Ethnicity, Inclusion, Student Development
Addie Keshunda Miller – ProQuest LLC, 2021
The purpose of this qualitative, descriptive, single-case study was to explore educators' perceptions and uses of strategies to support 5th-grade middle school students' basic psychological needs for relatedness in the Southeastern region of the United States, because it was not known how educators perceived and used strategies to support…
Descriptors: Grade 5, Middle School Students, Student Needs, Interpersonal Relationship
