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Direct linkSydoruk, Paige D. – ProQuest LLC, 2018
Higher order thinking skills have been embedded into state teaching standards, including Standard 9 of the New Jersey Core Curriculum Content Standards (NJCCCS) for 21st Century Life and Careers. These standards aim to encourage problem solving, critical thinking, reasoning, and real-world application in order to prepare students for the workplace…
Descriptors: English, Language Arts, Thinking Skills, State Standards
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Download full textWhat Works Clearinghouse, 2021
Inquiry-based science interventions aim to improve students' science proficiency by helping them understand scientific processes. In these interventions, students conduct hands-on investigations of science concepts and everyday phenomena, construct explanations for what they observe, consider alternative explanations, and communicate and justify…
Descriptors: Science Instruction, Intervention, Teaching Methods, Inquiry
What Works Clearinghouse, 2021
Inquiry-based science interventions aim to improve students' science proficiency by helping them understand scientific processes. In these interventions, students conduct hands-on investigations of science concepts and everyday phenomena, construct explanations for what they observe, consider alternative explanations, and communicate and justify…
Descriptors: Inquiry, Science Instruction, Science Process Skills, Teaching Methods
What Works Clearinghouse, 2021
Inquiry-based science interventions aim to improve students' science proficiency by helping them understand scientific processes. In these interventions, students conduct hands-on investigations of science concepts and everyday phenomena, construct explanations for what they observe, consider alternative explanations, and communicate and justify…
Descriptors: Intervention, Science Education, Educational Change, Inquiry
Gallagher, H. Alix; Arshan, Nicole; Woodworth, Katrina – Journal of Research on Educational Effectiveness, 2017
By 2013, all 50 states and the District of Columbia had adopted college- and career-ready standards in English language arts and mathematics, placing a greater emphasis on argument writing to prepare students for life after high school. Solving the specific problem of how to help teachers teach to new standards for argument writing as well as the…
Descriptors: Writing Instruction, Program Effectiveness, National Programs, College Readiness
Schütte, Kerstin; Köller, Olaf – International Journal of Science Education, 2015
Considerable research has focused on how best to satisfy modern societies' needs for skilled labour in the field of science. The present study evaluated an intervention programme designed to increase secondary school students' motivation to pursue a science career. Students from 3 schools of the highest educational track participated for up to 2…
Descriptors: Science Education, Student Motivation, Statistical Analysis, Intervention
Amundsen, Ellen J.; Ravndal, Edle – Drugs: Education, Prevention & Policy, 2010
Aim: To test whether the school-based Olweus prevention programme against bullying may have lasting effects on substance use, a hypothesis based on the characteristics of bullies having misconduct behaviour associated with substance use. Methods: The Olweus programme was introduced from grades 7 through 9 in four schools and monitored up to grade…
Descriptors: Experimental Schools, Bullying, Marijuana, Prevention
Wu, Chiu-hui; Coady, Maria R. – Language, Culture and Curriculum, 2010
READ 180 is a reading program primarily designed for both struggling readers and English language learners (ELLs) in the United States. In this paper, we report findings from a qualitative study that investigated how four adolescent ELLs responded to using READ 180, particularly in relation to their cultural needs. Findings from the study showed…
Descriptors: Curriculum Development, Reading Programs, Culturally Relevant Education, Second Language Learning
Hayden, Katherine; Ouyang, Youwen; Scinski, Lidia; Olszewski, Brandon; Bielefeldt, Talbot – Contemporary Issues in Technology and Teacher Education (CITE Journal), 2011
The iQUEST (investigations for Quality Understanding and Engagement for Students and Teachers) project is designed to promote student interest and attitudes toward careers in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM). The project targets seventh- and eighth-grade science classrooms that serve high percentages of Hispanic students.…
Descriptors: Inquiry, Student Interests, Science Teachers, Inservice Teacher Education
Wolf, Elaine M.; Wolf, Douglas A. – Evaluation Review, 2008
Disciplinary alternative schools have a reputation as gateways to the juvenile and criminal justice systems. The authors conducted an evaluation of an intervention (Strategies for Success) designed to divert seventh-, eighth-, and ninth-grade alternative school students from this gateway. They used propensity score matching and a multivariate…
Descriptors: Nontraditional Education, Attendance Patterns, Multivariate Analysis, Objective Tests
Games, Ivan Alex – Learning, Media and Technology, 2010
This article presents the results of a three-year study of "Gamestar Mechanic" (www.gamestarmechanic.com), a flash-based multiplayer online role-playing game developed for the MacArthur Foundation's digital media learning initiative by the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and Gamelab in New York. The game's objective is to help children…
Descriptors: Design, Role Playing, Discourse Analysis, Thinking Skills
Oatman, Eric – School Library Journal, 2006
Students at Gill St. Bernard's are introduced to guided inquiry as soon as they enter either the middle or upper school. It's the job of the research librarian, to guide younger students along the path to information literacy, the ability to locate, evaluate, and use needed information. The research librarian meets seventh and eighth graders twice…
Descriptors: Grade 8, Research Methodology, Research Skills, Librarians
Corcoran, Thomas B. – Consortium for Policy Research in Education, 2008
This is the first report on the evaluation of the Inquiry Based Science and Technology Education Program (IN-STEP), an innovative and ambitious science education initiative for lower secondary schools being undertaken by a public-private partnership in Thailand funded by MSD-Thailand, an affiliate of Merck & Co. IN-STEP is a public-private…
Descriptors: Feedback (Response), Schools of Education, Evaluators, Science Interests
