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Anuraag Sensharma – William & Mary Educational Review, 2018
New technology, including online gradebooks and learning management systems, allow schools to remotely involve families in their children's educations. This "engagement at a distance", as well as its impact on student learning, is examined through the lens of the author's experiences as a student-teacher. It is argued that while a…
Descriptors: Science Education, Parent Participation, Parent Influence, Parent Role
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Zavrel, Erik – Physics Teacher, 2016
"MythBusters," the long-running though recently discontinued Discovery Channel science entertainment television program, has proven itself to be far more than just a highly rated show. While its focus is on entertainment, the show employs an array of pedagogical techniques to communicate scientific concepts to its audience. These…
Descriptors: Scientific Concepts, Misconceptions, Science Instruction, Television
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Warnick, Bryan R. – Educational Theory, 2016
In this essay Bryan Warnick examines two recent analyses of the practice of paying students for grades, with a focus on educational justice. Philosopher Derrick Darby argues against cash-for-grades programs on the grounds that such programs leave educational inequality intact. Warnick contends that Darby's arguments are incomplete. Increasing…
Descriptors: Educational Change, Educational Policy, Grades (Scholastic), Incentive Grants
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Ke, Fengfeng; Xie, Kui; Xie, Ying – British Journal of Educational Technology, 2016
The promise of using games for learning is that play- and learning-engagement would occur cohesively as a whole to compose a highly motivated learning experience. Yet the conceptualization of such an integrative process in the development of play-based learning engagement is lacking. In this analytical paper, we explored and conceptualized the…
Descriptors: Educational Games, Learner Engagement, Play, Theory Practice Relationship
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Koca, Fatih – Journal of International Education and Leadership, 2016
When children enter school for the first time, they encounter a variety of new challenges that include creating positive relationships with peer groups and adults as well as learning to meet the demands of a wide range of cognitive, social, and academic tasks (Baker, 2006; Birch & Ladd, 1997; Pianta, Steinberg, & Rollins, 1995). Infants…
Descriptors: Student Motivation, Teacher Student Relationship, Learning Motivation, Literature Reviews
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Huang, Jiagan – Science Insights Education Frontiers, 2020
The "county high school phenomenon" of Chinese rural high school education to pursue higher education has attracted much attention from the education field and society. Earlier studies were mostly from the perspective of education and believed that the "county high school education model" was contrary to education's essence…
Descriptors: High School Students, College Entrance Examinations, Rural Schools, Student Mobility
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Molway, Laura; Mutton, Trevor – Language Learning Journal, 2020
Recent research has established that it is academically advantageous for students to adopt an incremental view of their intelligence and that this is a key marker of a student's level of self-efficacy. The self-efficacy of students following Modern Foreign Languages (MFL) courses in UK secondary schools is known to be low. Interventions have been…
Descriptors: Reading Strategies, Intervention, Self Efficacy, Second Language Learning
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Lo, Chung Kwan; Hew, Khe Foon – Interactive Learning Environments, 2020
This study examines Grade 9 students' mathematics achievement and cognitive engagement under three different instructional approaches: traditional learning, flipped learning with gamification, and online independent study with gamification. The duration of the study lasted an entire school year. The central theories underpinning flipped learning…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Secondary School Students, Grade 9, Secondary School Mathematics
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Alharbi, Aisha T. – English Language Teaching, 2020
This study looked into Saudi female English as a Foreign Language (EFL) teachers' perception of their motivational practices in the actual classroom in public and private schools. Forty (n=40) EFL teachers filled out a questionnaire consisting of forty-four motivational strategies that were based on a five-point Likert scale ranging from…
Descriptors: High School Teachers, Teaching Methods, Language Teachers, Second Language Learning
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Yan, Chunmei; Gao, Yuanyuan; He, Chuanjun – Frontiers of Education in China, 2020
This study set out to explore non-English major postgraduates' use of motivational regulation strategies in English learning. Subjects for this study were 156 Chinese postgraduates studying in a national teacher education university in central China. A self-reported questionnaire and individual semi-structured interviews were complementarily…
Descriptors: Graduate Students, Asians, Learning Motivation, Second Language Learning
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Vakilifard, Amireza; Ebadi, Saman; Zamani, Mahmood; Sadeghi, Bahador – Cogent Education, 2020
Learners' motivation has been widely accepted as a key factor which influences the rate, success, and failure of second/foreign language learning. On the other hand, demotivation is regarded as a flip side of motivation which has negative effects on language learning processes and outcomes. This study intended to examine what factors may…
Descriptors: Learning Motivation, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Indo European Languages
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Kohnke, Lucas – International Journal of Computer-Assisted Language Learning and Teaching, 2020
In recent years, the widespread growth of mobile-assisted language learning using apps has made English vocabulary learning increasingly accessible. This study investigated students' perceptions of a vocabulary learning app developed by the researcher as a tool to help them to improve their L2 receptive vocabulary. The app, containing 20 levels,…
Descriptors: Vocabulary Development, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
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Chen, Fu; Cui, Ying – Educational Psychology, 2020
This study used the data from the 2015 OECD Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) to examine the relationship between perceived teacher unfairness and science achievement with a three-level hierarchical linear model (HLM) as the analytic approach. Data of 188,104 students from 4895 schools in 52 countries and economies were used…
Descriptors: Science Achievement, Correlation, Foreign Countries, Achievement Tests
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Glaab, Sabine; Heyne, Thomas – Applied Environmental Education and Communication, 2020
A total of 268 primary school children (age 8.75 ± 0.65) spent one day at a wildlife park attending environmental education aiming at high cognitive achievement and motivation alongside maintained discipline. To accomplish this at an out-of-school learning setting, we compared our preferred 'guided learning at workstations' (G) combining the…
Descriptors: Wildlife, Outdoor Education, Environmental Education, Elementary School Students
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Bademci, H. Özden; Sakmar-Balkan, Elçin; Karadayi, E. Figen; Cefai, Carmel; Alkan, Ceren; Warfa, Nasir – Pastoral Care in Education, 2020
Early School Leaving (ESL) is a complex phenomenon caused by multidimensional factors spanning personal, social and economic problems. We carried out two online surveys with 796 teachers and 900 students from Bulgaria, Italy, Malta, Romania and Turkey completed standard electronic surveys. The teachers' survey consisted of secondary school…
Descriptors: Inclusion, Dropouts, Foreign Countries, Secondary School Teachers
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