Among the most common form of collaborative discourse in middle school science classrooms is the carefully planned laboratory investigation, where groups of students follow prescribed procedures in order to reproduce and measure some scientifically explainable event. While there are clear pedagogical benefits to replicating scientific processes in a controlled classroom setting, students often ...

In this paper, we motivate and describe a term long game tournament. The tournament has different milestones, including breadth first search, heuristic search, knowledge representation and reasoning and the tournament proper. For this last milestone, students are encouraged to use machine learning techniques. We describe in detail each of the milestones as well as the game and its specification...

The purpose of this study was to determine the relationship between sixth grade students' academic achievement levels in math and their perceptions of school climate. Student characteristics of socioeconomic status and gender were used to identify groups for the purpose of data analysis. Data was gathered using the five independent variables of the My Class Inventory (satisfaction, friction, co...

objectives: the aim of current research was the investigation of the role of classroom social psychosocial climate and shyness with academic performance of students. method: for this purpose, 370 students of third grade high schools of sabzevar city in iran, selected by clustering random sampling, and all of them filled the timidness and class social psychosocial climate questionnaires. results...

Motivational research in the classroom has adopted a social cognitive perspective but has mainly been restricted to the study of individual achievement cognitions. In addition to this, there is a need to study and assess the perception children have of the class climate. Using social cognitive theory as a base, this research reports the development of class climate scales in French and English ...

The purpose of this study is to determine perspectives teachers about classroom climate by investigating teachers' descriptions a positive climate, their practices towards the challenges they encounter in creating and suggestions for climate. research adopted case design. group consisted 45 data was collected via questionnaire form which composed four open-ended questions. Based on content anal...

Classroom environment encompasses a broad range of educational concepts, including the physical setting, the psychological environment created through social contexts, and numerous instructional components related to teacher characteristics and behaviors. The study classroom environment has been widespread across nearly all subspecializations of educational psychology. Researchers are intereste...