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Showing 1 to 11 of 11 for “"Middle Grades Education"”.
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Using schools to watch program's self-study and rating rubric to examine middle-grades education in an urban district
… multiple characteristics of high-performing middle schools as identified in the schools to watch rubric and how those characteristics as well as grade configurations may affect students’ progression through their first year of high school. A student’s middle level experience strongly impacts …
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Examining the interaction of academic optimism, enabling school structures, middle level practices, and academic achievement
… study focused on young adolescent development, middle grades education, and the underlying supporting structures that assist students in achieving academically. Results were examined through the lens of Bandura’s social cognitive theory, and a big picture view of the interplay of beliefs, …
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Middle Level Schools in an Era of Standards and Accountability: Adaptations of the Features of the Middle School Concept
The literature related to the development of education in the middle grades and to the features associated with the implementation of the middle school concept provides a theoretical grounding for the development and testing of an Innovation Configuration map for the middle school concept. The …
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Implementing global citizenship education: A case study of exemplary practices, opportunities, and challenges
… of a differentiated curriculum for gifted middle grades students that was based on both state standards and within a global citizenship education framework (GCE). The study used active middle grades social studies practitioners as research participants. The study was guided by two research …
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Poetry in the Classroom: The Why and How of Teaching and Inspiring Students Through Poetry
… and observing three classrooms (an elementary, middle, and high school classroom) in which the teachers were teaching poetry. Based off these experiences and peer-reviewed articles, 1 discovered that both analyzing and experiencing or connecting with a poem are valuable; however, helping …
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Navigating the Context: Implementing Inquiry in the Middle School Social Studies Classroom
… contextual barriers to implement inquiry in middle school (6<sup>th</sup>-8<sup>th</sup>) social studies. This study aimed to identify and describe these exemplary practices to inform professional development and learning focused on increasing the use of IBL in social studies classrooms. The …
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Teachers Re-Imagining Parental Involvement: Using Parents' Funds of Knowledge in Math Lesson Designs
… United States, included six parents of middle grade students and two middle grade mathematics teachers. The study utilized questionnaires, semi-structured interviews, and document analysis to gather data to explore how Black and Latinx families’ funds of knowledge can be used to create …
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8th Grade Students’ Perceptions of 1:1 Laptops in Algebra 1
<p>One-to-one (1:1) initiatives in education refer to the practice in which schools provide each student with a personal computing device, such as a laptop or tablet, for students to have access to the internet to complete coursework and access digital course materials. One-to-one initiatives are …
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Growth Mindset Intervention and Its Impact on Productive Struggle in the Eighth-Grade Mathematics Classroom
<p>This study aims to seek means to increase student productive struggle while adhering to the strenuous performance demands by our school systems. This study examines connections between growth mindset interventions, attitude towards struggle, and productive struggle in the mathematics classroom. …
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Self-Regulation & Student Achievement in Mathematics
… youth. Students that succeed and contradict educational outcomes and predictions of future success. The purpose of the study is to investigate the influence of self-regulation (SRL) on student achievement in math. Student development of self-regulatory skills in academic and non-academic …
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Tracking and mathematical identity for rural adolescent students of color
<p>Tracking, or segregating students into varying levels of a course based on their mathematical ability and prior performance, is truly a social justice issue as it perpetuates racial injustice, widens the income gap, and does not foster equality (Gamoran, 2016). This is even more prominent for …