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Wahid Yunianto; Rully Charitas Indra Prahmana; Ratu Ilma Indra Putri; Monica Wijers; Darmawijoyo; Dolly van Eerde – Curriculum and Teaching, 2024
Students encounter difficulties in solving areas of triangles and quadrilaterals due to a lack of conceptual understanding of the topic. The researchers have developed the following activities and the hypothetical learning trajectory (HLT) through the design research approach focusing on developing activities for students to learn the concepts…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Secondary School Students, Grade 7, Middle School Mathematics
Liang, Wenyan; Li, Tao; He, Qian – Best Evidence in Chinese Education, 2023
Based on data from China Education Panel Survey, this article examined the impact of teacher gender on student human capital development at the junior secondary education level. The research findings showed that female teachers were more capable of promoting cognitive and non-cognitive ability development of both girl and boy students than their…
Descriptors: Gender Differences, Human Capital, Student Development, Foreign Countries
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
Zappala-Piemme, Kerri E.; Sturman, Edward D.; Brannigan, Gary G.; Brannigan, Michael J. – Psychology in the Schools, 2023
We evaluated a curriculum that focused on bolstering grit and locus of control in seventh grade students at a school in upstate New York. The intervention included lessons aimed at building a growth mindset and determination, along with writing projects and collaborative work. A pre-post design was utilized such that surveys measuring grit and…
Descriptors: Locus of Control, Resilience (Psychology), Persistence, Student Characteristics
Demirçali, Semra; Selvi, Mahmut – Journal of Turkish Science Education, 2022
This research aims to determine the effects of model-based science teaching on students' academic achievements and science process skills for a science and technology course. A quasi-experimental research method was used for this study. Study participants were 48 7th grade students. The application was carried out over a period of 4 weeks. During…
Descriptors: Models, Science Education, Academic Achievement, Science Process Skills
Emma Phillips; Aaron Jarden; Terence Bowles – Australian Educational Researcher, 2025
Empathy is a key contributor to moral, pro-social behaviour and an important element of socio-emotional learning (SEL). Schools deliver SEL programmes during adolescence to develop a range of skills including empathy. As education becomes increasingly digital, more research is needed to understand the role digital technologies may play in…
Descriptors: Secondary School Students, Empathy, Computer Simulation, Technology Uses in Education
Scott J. Peters; Meredith Langi; Megan Kuhfeld; Karyn Lewis – Journal for the Education of the Gifted, 2025
The COVID-19 pandemic resulted in substantial unfinished learning for U.S. students, but to differing degrees for various subgroups. Students of color, from low-income families, or who attended high-poverty schools experienced greater unfinished learning. In this study, we examined the degree of unfinished learning for students who went into the…
Descriptors: Achievement Gains, COVID-19, Pandemics, Student Development
Capp, Gordon P.; Sullivan, Kathrine S.; Park, Yangjin – Oxford Review of Education, 2023
Few studies holistically examine how students experience the multiple dimensions of school climate and resilience promoting characteristics, or how these two constructs may be interrelated. This study utilised a sample of 78,550 7th, 9th, and 11th grade students in California. Roughly half of the participants were female (52%), and roughly half…
Descriptors: Educational Environment, Resilience (Psychology), Student Characteristics, Grade 7
Panjwani, Sonya; Garney, Whitney R.; Harms, Kathy; Rodine, Sharon; Ajayi, Kobi M.; Lautner, Shelby C.; Wilson, Kelly – American Journal of Sexuality Education, 2022
The Sexual Health And Peer Education (SHAPE) program implemented in middle schools in Oklahoma County utilizes a hybrid adult and peer educator model to deliver sexual health programming. While peer educators have been incorporated into school-based sexual health programs in the past, this program is unique in its approach to preparing and…
Descriptors: Peer Teaching, Middle School Students, Health Education, Sex Education
Ismail Sarikaya; Mesut Ozturk; Mustafa Ozgol – International Journal of Assessment Tools in Education, 2023
This study was conducted to develop a valid and reliable measurement tool that can identify middle school students' self-regulation skills. Firstly, the literature was utilized in the development of the measurement tool. The form was finalized with the support of the opinions of different experts and a trial application. Then, the form was…
Descriptors: Middle School Students, Self Control, Self Management, Student Development
Lavrijsen, Jeroen; Ramos, Alicia; Verschueren, Karine – Journal of Experimental Education, 2022
Beliefs about academic functioning play an important role in the academic development of students. This study considers perceptions about underachievement, that is, the degree to which accomplishments are believed to be in line with potential. In particular, we examined why these perceptions might deviate from measured underachievement, determined…
Descriptors: Identification, Underachievement, Student Attitudes, Parent Attitudes
Ketonen, Laura; Nieminen, Pasi; Hähkiöniemi, Markus – Journal of Educational Research, 2020
A growing body of research has recognized the importance of students' having active roles in feedback processes. Feedback literacy refers to students' understandings of and participation in feedback processes, and research on students' feedback literacy has so far focused on higher education; secondary schools have not received attention. This…
Descriptors: Feedback (Response), Peer Evaluation, Intervention, Formative Evaluation
Scott J. Peters; Meredith Langi; Megan Kuhfeld; Karyn Lewis – Annenberg Institute for School Reform at Brown University, 2023
The COVID-19 pandemic resulted in substantial unfinished learning for U.S. students, but to differing degrees for various subgroups. For example, students of color, from low-income families, or who attended high-poverty schools experienced greater unfinished learning. In this study we examined the degree of unfinished learning for students who…
Descriptors: Achievement Tests, Achievement Gains, COVID-19, Pandemics
Rebecca Slotkin; Karen L. Bierman; Brenda S. Heinrichs; Janet A. Welsh – Prevention Science, 2024
The Research-based Developmentally Informed (REDI) program enriched Head Start classrooms with teacher-delivered curriculum components designed to enhance child social-emotional learning and language-literacy skills. Parents received information about the program via backpack express, including weekly handouts about program topics and three DVDs…
Descriptors: Preschool Education, Parent Child Relationship, Intervention, Parent Participation
Ednita L. Prentiss – ProQuest LLC, 2021
Statement of Purpose and Method of Study: This non-experimental descriptive study compared the behavior and academic performance of students in grades sixth, seventh, and eighth enrolled at Urban Academy. This study compared the academic performance and behavior of students who were randomly assigned to a visual arts course with the academic…
Descriptors: Grade 6, Grade 7, Grade 8, Nontraditional Education