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Maria Berge; Per Anderhag – Science & Education, 2025
Talking science is based on the premise of being serious and dignified. Still, both teachers and students use humour when they communicate. However, little is known about the mechanisms of how learning science is constituted when teachers and students are using spontaneous humour in science classroom activities. In this study, we acknowledge this…
Descriptors: Science Education, Humor, Class Activities, Physics
Nina K. Simms; Bryan J. Matlen; Benjamin D. Jee; Dedre Gentner – Grantee Submission, 2023
Visual comparisons are pervasive in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) instruction and practice. In previous work, adults' visual comparisons of simple stimuli were faster and more accurate when the layout of a display facilitated alignment of corresponding elements--the "spatial alignment principle" (Matlen et al.,…
Descriptors: Spatial Ability, Biological Sciences, Visual Aids, Stimuli
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Hamilton, Erica R.; Margot, Kelly C. – International Journal for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning, 2023
This research article reports results of a study centered on an undergraduate instructor who facilitated a practice-based field experience with undergraduate preservice teachers (n=125) in an urban museum setting, working with middle school students with a public museum school. In addition to exploring this practice-based field experience, we also…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Preservice Teachers, Museums, Middle School Students
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Andrea Arnold – PRIMUS, 2024
Sonia Kovalevsky Days (SK Days) are nationally-held outreach events that are commonly organized by local chapters of the Association for Women in Mathematics (AWM) to encourage young women to continue their study of mathematics. The AWM Student Chapter at Worcester Polytechnic Institute hosted virtual renditions of SK Day for middle school girls…
Descriptors: Mathematics Education, Outreach Programs, Middle School Students, Females
Lisa Sandlos; Rennie Tang – Harvard Educational Review, 2024
In this essay, Lisa Sandlos and Rennie Tang investigate the potential for movement to play a more significant role in schoolyard design processes to enhance the physical literacy of middle school youth. This research responds to a need for prioritizing physical literacy for historically marginalized youth whose movement needs are often different…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Grade 6, Movement Education, Motion
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Stephanie May de Montigny – Teaching & Learning Inquiry, 2024
This research recounts a scholarship of teaching and learning (SoTL) project aimed at facilitating students' empathic development while also offering ways to identify and assess students' written expressions of empathy. I ground this work in an exploration of the many processes labelled as empathy and the reasons for including empathy as a course…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Empathy, School Community Relationship, Service Learning
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Laurie MacGillivray; Bryan Walker; Sarah Burson Langley; Kimberly Owens-Pearson; Wideline Seraphin; Jasmine Worthen – Journal of Service-Learning in Higher Education, 2025
This study focuses on a pivotal discursive interaction with a university instructor and "Roseanna," an undergraduate situated as a writing mentor in a service-learning course centered around an after-school writing club with Black fifth graders. Course instructors sought to humanize pedagogical practices by establishing an asset-based…
Descriptors: Service Learning, Elementary School Students, Grade 5, College School Cooperation
Frederick W. Gooding Jr. – Teachers College Press, 2024
Talking about race does not have to be incredibly awkward. In this book, Gooding offers twelve clear, cogent, and concise racial rubrics to help users of mainstream media more readily discern patterns hidden in plain sight. The text primarily leverages popular movies as the medium of analysis--since they are unparalleled in their cultural…
Descriptors: Race, Controversial Issues (Course Content), Films, Popular Culture
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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
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Bayram Özer; Nurgün Gençel – European Journal of Psychology and Educational Research, 2025
This research aims to investigate students' "test anxiety", "the satisfaction with life", "mindfulness" according to some demographic characteristics, as well as their correlations and predictive importance level for the distance education they took during the COVID-19 period. The study is a quantitative study based…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Middle School Students, High School Students, Undergraduate Students
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Folake Modupe Adelabu; Jogmol Kalariparampil Alex – Research in Social Sciences and Technology, 2023
This paper report on first-year student teachers' reflections on the difficulty levels of mathematics concepts in the senior phase baseline assessments. This paper emanated after first year student teachers completed the baseline assessments for each of the three grades in the senior phase, Grades 7, 8, and 9. One hundred and sixteen (116) first…
Descriptors: Student Teachers, Mathematical Concepts, Difficulty Level, Grade 7
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Nadide Yilmaz – Anatolian Journal of Education, 2023
This study was aimed to reveal what types of questions were asked by pre- service teachers and what kind of interactions they established with the 5th-8th grade students. The extent to which the questions the pre-service teachers asked are related to the interactions they established with the students was also investigated. Case study, one of the…
Descriptors: Questioning Techniques, Teacher Student Relationship, Preservice Teachers, Teacher Education Programs
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Hanbing Li; Hongyan Zhang; Wenquan Liu; Jie Huang; Kejian Lu; Jinwen Shi; Hui Jin; Wenshuai Chen; Maochang Liu – Journal of Chemical Education, 2023
In recent years, solar-powered photocatalytic water splitting for hydrogen production has drawn great attention as a method to supply clean energy and reduce environmental pollution. This approach, driven by solar energy to synthesize hydrogen gas, is completely renewable and can be used to power hydrogen fuel cells to effectively solve the global…
Descriptors: Fuels, Chemistry, Science Instruction, Undergraduate Students
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Peter Stoepker; Duke Biber; Jaimie McMullen – Journal of Teaching in Physical Education, 2024
Purpose: To explore undergraduate students' experiences leading and facilitating an out-of-school-time (OST) physical activity program for middle school girls. Method: Five female undergraduate students (N = 4 Black or African American) participated in semistructured individual interviews and submitted weekly reflections during their time leading…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Females, Physical Activities, Middle School Students
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Zer Vue; Chia Vang; Celestine N. Wanjalla; Andrea G. Marshall; Kit Neikirk; Dominique Stephens; Sulema Perales; Edgar Garza-Lopez; Heather K. Beasley; Annet Kirabo; Yelena Janumyan Doe; Desmond Campbell; Letimicia Fears; Ahmad Alghanem; Estevão Scudese; Beverly Owens; Derrick J. Morton; Clintoria R. Williams; Zachary Conley; Hinton Antentor Jr. – Advances in Physiology Education, 2024
Physiology is an important field for students to gain a better understanding of biological mechanisms. Yet, many students often find it difficult to learn from lectures, resulting in poor retention. Here, we utilize a learning workshop model to teach students at different levels ranging from middle school to undergraduate. We specifically designed…
Descriptors: Workshops, Physiology, Science Education, Hands on Science
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