Kaler-Jones, Cierra
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Frontiers in Education
For Black girls, whose histories are often taught in schools through deficit-based narratives, the need to create and reauthor their personal and communal stories is a resistant act that gives their stories permanence in the present and the future. This article explores how Black girls leveraged creative expression to freedom dream in a virtual sum...
Peppler, Kylie Keune, Anna Thompson, Naomi Saxena, Pooja
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Frontiers in Education
There is tremendous excitement around makerspaces for deepening and enriching curricula across subjects, as well as engaging traditionally marginalized learners in new ways. To address the lack of translation of maker education projects to mathematics learning, we propose that educators aspire to create a “Mathland” when designing maker educational...
Velarde, Victoria Casado-Barragán, Felipe Thamar, Michelle Rands, Vicky F. Gonzalez, Alexis A.
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Frontiers in Education
The coronavirus pandemic (COVID-19) pointed out new challenges to teaching in laboratory-based disciplines, such as chemistry, biology, and biochemistry with on-site practical sessions interrupted or suspended during 2020 and 2021. Observation and experimentation are part of education in science-based disciplines and provide necessary skills for pr...
Eegdeman, Irene Cornelisz, Ilja van Klaveren, Chris Meeter, Martijn
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Frontiers in Education
Introduction Machine learning algorithms use data to identify at-risk students early on such that dropout can be prevented. Teachers, on the other hand, may have a perspective on a student’s chance, derived from their observations and previous experience. Are such subjective perspectives of teachers indeed predictive for identifying at-risk student...
Lohse-Bossenz, Hendrik Bloss, Christopher Dörfler, Tobias
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Frontiers in Education
Research on evidence-based argumentation shows that (pre-service) teachers have difficulties in orienting their actions to existing theories and empirical evidence. This article addresses the knowledge content needed for this and presents a vignette-based procedure. Within each vignette, two different theoretical perspectives are addressed. The beh...
Hurtado-Mazeyra, Alejandra Núñez-Pacheco, Rosa Barreda-Parra, Aymé Guillén-Chávez, Evelyn-Paola Turpo-Gebera, Osbaldo
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Frontiers in Education
Digital teaching competence is directly related to the knowledge, use of Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs). Its use in educational contexts and processes seeks to integrate technology and pedagogy. The objectives of this study are to evaluate the level of Digital Teaching Competencies (DTCs) possessed by basic education (BE) teacher...
Krein, Ulrike Hartenstein, Anna Schiefner-Rohs, Mandy
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Frontiers in Education
Digital data have a major impact on school practices and play a central role for teachers, including their pedagogical practice. From a research perspective, the question arises how data practices and data-related transformation processes in schools can be studied. Therefore, the aim of this paper is to methodically review research approaches and u...
Sanches-Ferreira, Manuela Martins, Helena Valquaresma, Andreia Alves, Sílvia
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Frontiers in Education
The global COVID-19 pandemic disrupted face-to-face teaching, having a significant impact on the teaching-learning process. As a result, many students spent less time reading (and learning to read) than they did during face-to-face instruction, requiring the use of alternative approaches of instruction. A combined online and peer tutoring intervent...
Morkevičius, Vaidas Erentaitė, Rasa Raižienė, Saulė
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Frontiers in Education
This article investigates methodological problems of measuring family wealth among secondary school students with home possessions indicators. It employs multiple correspondence analysis (MCA) in order to explore (1) the dimensionality of home possessions items, (2) the nature of relationship between these items, and (3) the substantive meaning of ...
Yueyue, Cai Nordin, Nor Akmar Panatik, Siti Aisyah
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Frontiers in Education
Introduction This study focuses on the factors influencing the intercultural adaptation stress and strategies of students in the Sino-American Joint Training Dual Degree Program. Methods A total number of 400 questionnaires were distributed to Chinese students who participating in the Program and the 355 responded. Motivation and Expectation Scale,...
