The article discusses results from 2010 to 2014 on the social studies sections of the U.S. National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP), noting a lack of improvement by students in proficiency on tests covering history, geography, and civics during that time.BROWN...
From the Constitution to ancient civilizations, these social studies activities for middle school students will help your 6th, 7th, and 8th graders have fun while exploring the past. With these world history and American history resources, you will be able to develop comprehensive, fun history less...
Tags:19th century,civil war,lesson plans,Primary Source Documents,Teaching history,teaching social studies,teaching the Civil War,teaching us history,US History,US History lesson plans 1912 Exam for 8th graders This exam was given to 8th grade students in Bullitt County, Kentucky. ...
Meanwhile, in the United States, students’ knowledge of both history and civics is at an all-time low. Scores on theNational Assessment of Educational Progress(NAEP) showed a steep decline in 8th-graders’ knowledge and comprehension of history and civics. Only 13 percent of students rated as...
Functions in textbook studies Several prior studies have compared the topic of functions between Western and Eastern countries’ textbooks. For example, Hong and Choi’s (2018) examination of Korean and American textbooks found that the American ones used more real-life problems and introduced the ...
With the continued unfolding of major climatic shifts, questions continue to emerge about how to approach climate change in the science classroom, at least in the USA where it is often perceived as socio-politically controversial. Broadly, research in science education has shown that the learning ...
Texas Woman’s University had a huge year on social, going from 54th in our 2023 rankings to 8th this year. Instagram has always been their strongest channel, but the Pioneers still managed to jump from 21st to 8th on arguably the most relevant channel for Higher Ed social media. This co...
“Ben said he used to average up to five hours of screen time per day. Once he switched to a flip phone, it went down to about 30 minutes. So, CBS News asked four of Ben’s friends, Carson, Ranita, Jamison and Maya — all 8th graders in New Jersey — to try flip phones for ...
Sleep. An estimate of the amount of sleep per night was calculated as a weighted average of responses for the question concerning the five weekdays and the question concerning the two weekend days. Sleep amount was estimated as a difference between the questions “At what time do you usually ...
assess the extent to which youth engage in social comparison and feedback seeking (SCFS) behaviors on social media, we utilized a modified version of the Motivations for Electronic Interaction Scale (Nesi and Prinstein, 2015), which was originally validated on older youth (8th and 9th graders)....