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Zong, Zheng; Schunn, Christian D.; Wang, Yanqing – Instructional Science: An International Journal of the Learning Sciences, 2023
Students benefit from receiving and providing peer feedback, but the degree of participation limits the benefit. Further, students sometimes resist participation, providing few or only short comments. Prior researchers have examined the role of general attitudes toward peer feedback in limiting participation. However, little research has examined…
Descriptors: Peer Evaluation, Feedback (Response), Performance, Prior Learning
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Garg, Anchal; Rajendran, Ramkumar – Education and Information Technologies, 2023
Procrastination is one of the issues affecting more than half of the student population and is known to impact them negatively. It is also one of the major reasons for failure and dropout. Therefore, several studies have been conducted in this domain to understand when and why students procrastinate. The existing studies use self-reported…
Descriptors: Behavior Patterns, Time Management, Web Sites, Editing
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Brownell, Cassie J. – Education Sciences, 2020
Drawing on data generated following the 2016 United States presidential election, in this article the author considers how a classroom makerspace made Black girls' literacies visible in new ways. During a six-week integrated humanities unit in a third-grade public school classroom in the Midwestern U.S., four Black girls used making to create a…
Descriptors: African American Students, Females, Literacy, Grade 3
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Grady, Marilyn L. – Journal of Learning in Higher Education, 2018
The purpose of this manuscript is to present strategies and resources for advisors of doctoral students in online programs. The strategies include an approach to creating a community of doctoral students, a video initiative to provide encouragement to students in the doctoral program, and assignments that enhance students' writing skills to…
Descriptors: Online Courses, Doctoral Degrees, College Faculty, Academic Advising
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Lay, Kathy; McGuire, Lisa – Journal of Teaching in the Addictions, 2008
Students come to the classroom with life experience that may reinforce stigmatization of those who struggle with addiction. Educators must address this dynamic directly if addiction practitioners are to move beyond their personal experiences and come to understand the neuroscience of addiction, evidence-based practices, and the human potential for…
Descriptors: Addictive Behavior, Reflection, Assignments, Social Attitudes
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Havel, P. D. – American Biology Teacher, 1995
Presents assignments as an important mechanism for developing writing skills and for learning about science. Describes a teaching strategy that allows a student's writing skills to develop while researching a particular science topic. Discusses topic selection, collection of information, drafting, and editing. (18 references) (JRH)
Descriptors: Assignments, Biology, Elementary Secondary Education, Science Education
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Sexton, Kathryn – OAH Magazine of History, 1991
Offers techniques to make book reports a more meaningful experience for students. Suggests guidelines for book selections and for what the students should look for in their reading. Lists alternatives to traditional book reports that allow an evaluative approach to reading and provide an opportunity for creativity and critical thought. (DK)
Descriptors: Creativity, Elementary Secondary Education, Evaluative Thinking, History Instruction
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Anderson, Dana D. – Teaching of Psychology, 1992
Describes a teaching exercise in an undergraduate psychology course in which students read a book with unconventional perspectives on the field of study. Maintains that the activity develops critical reading and thinking skills by confronting students with controversial views. Identifies some of the books selected to fit the criteria of this…
Descriptors: Clinical Psychology, Critical Reading, Critical Thinking, Higher Education
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Bytwerk, Randall L. – Communication Education, 1985
Presents six impromptu speaking exercises suitable for developing a variety of speaking skills. (PD)
Descriptors: Assignments, Public Speaking, Speech Instruction, Speech Skills
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English Journal, 1980
Fifteen writing instructors report their favorite ways of getting students to write. (RL)
Descriptors: Assignments, Secondary Education, Writing (Composition), Writing Instruction
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Conrad, Susan Howes – Journal of Geological Education, 1991
An assignment centered on reading journal articles and writing abstracts is an effective way to improve student reading and writing skills in sedimentology and stratigraphy laboratories. Each student reads two articles and writes informative abstracts from the author's point of view. (PR)
Descriptors: Abstracting, College Science, Earth Science, Geology
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DeCoster, Patricia A. – Science Teacher, 1991
Describes a high school biology assignment that had students read a self-selected book where the main character experiences nature and is changed by it. Evaluation was based on journal entries and a formal paper. Seventy percent of the students indicated they greatly enjoyed the assignment. (PR)
Descriptors: Biology, Instructional Materials, Journal Writing, Reading Assignments
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Meixner, Linda L. – Religion & Public Education, 1990
Presents a four-day lesson plan for secondary U.S. literature or Bible-and-literature classes, using the Garden of Eden story and Nathaniel Hawthorne's "Rappaccini's Daughter." Identifies objectives, materials, procedure, and evaluation measures. Develops students' ability to discover analogies and irony in literary texts. Lists teacher…
Descriptors: Biblical Literature, Instructional Films, Instructional Materials, Irony
Ohanian, Susan – Learning, 1987
An expense account book report encourages students to be creative and doesn't penalize students with reading and writing disabilities. Pie graphs showing expenditures a character from a book might make reveal divergent thinking skills and with a minimum of words. A reproducible worksheet is included. (MT)
Descriptors: Books, Divergent Thinking, Elementary Education, Graphs
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Drake, Harold L. – Communication Quarterly, 1983
Suggests that class assignments include activities outside the school which will allow students to apply newly acquired information and skills to real life situations. (PD)
Descriptors: Assignments, Higher Education, Semantics, Speech Communication
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