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Amy Stornaiuolo; Clara Abbott; Kathy Walsh – Journal of Adolescent & Adult Literacy, 2025
This discussion introduces a heuristic to guide writing instruction with adolescents and young adults. Our framework, called "Open World Writing," consists of six writing territories (vision, material, design, voice, flow, polish) that provide focus and clarity for writing and educators working across academic and creative writing…
Descriptors: Writing Instruction, Teaching Methods, Heuristics, Adolescents
St. Peter, Claire; Shuler, Natalie J.; Toegel, Cory; Diaz-Salvat, Claudia; Jones, Stephanie H. – Education and Treatment of Children, 2022
Matching job tasks to the individual's preferences improves job performance. Preference assessments, including paired stimulus (PS) and multiple-stimulus-without-replacement (MSWO) procedures, can be used to identify preferred vocational tasks for individuals with disabilities. However, there are few direct comparisons of the efficacy and…
Descriptors: Autism, Pervasive Developmental Disorders, Preferences, Stimuli
Accelerating Literacy for Adolescents (ALFA): Evaluating ALFA Using a Regression Discontinuity Study
Marcia H. Davis; Jason Schoeneberger; Christopher Rhoads; Douglas J. Mac Iver; Xiaodong Zhang; Martha Mac Iver; Samantha Spinney – Grantee Submission, 2024
This paper investigates the impact of assignment to the Accelerating Literacy for Adolescents (ALFA) Lab, an additional semester-long class taken during an elective period, on ninth grade student reading achievement, motivation, and frequency. We conducted a regression discontinuity (RD) study where 1,378 students from diverse high schools in four…
Descriptors: High School Students, Grade 9, Acceleration (Education), Literacy
Kathy Gibbs; Lukas Barker; Leah Le – Australian Journal of Learning Difficulties, 2023
This study sought to increase awareness of ADHD though the context of a school assignment completed by a student with ADHD. The student (pseudonym Jim) sought opinions of 67 Australian school students with ADHD between 11-16 years to investigate their schooling experiences. Findings revealed that schooling mostly was a positive experience due to…
Descriptors: Assignments, Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder, Adolescents, Student Experience
Erin Nerlino – Educational Action Research, 2024
Despite the value of reading, research documents declining reading rates among American adolescents - a decline that exacerbates student dropout rates and academic performance. As a high school English teacher in a public, regional, suburban school, increasing the number of students who deeply read the assigned texts for class has been a…
Descriptors: Reading, Public Schools, Suburban Schools, Reading Assignments
Linda P. Juang; Maja K. Schachner; Tugçe Aral; Miriam Schwarzenthal; David Kunyu; Hanna Löhmannsröben – Social Psychology of Education: An International Journal, 2024
We tested whether a brief self-affirmation writing intervention protected against identity-threats (i.e., stereotyping and discrimination) for adolescents' school-related adjustment. The longitudinal study followed 639 adolescents in Germany (65% of immigrant descent, 50% female, M[subscript age] = 12.35 years, SD[subscript age] = 0.69) from 7th…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Adolescents, Middle School Students, Longitudinal Studies
Macedo-Rouet, M.; Trópia, G.; Castilhos, W.; Massarani, L.; Brasil, V.; Almeida, C. – International Journal of Science Education, Part B: Communication and Public Engagement, 2023
Sourcing is the ability to evaluate information by analysing source parameters such as author's expertise on a given topic. Past research, mostly based on school-related materials and tasks, shows that adolescents do not pay attention to source parameters when evaluating online scientific information. However, recent research has suggested that…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Adolescents, Evaluative Thinking, Information Sources
Adele K. Wallis; Marleen F. Westerveld – Language, Speech, and Hearing Services in Schools, 2024
Purpose: Comprehensive spoken language assessment should include the evaluation of language use in naturalistic contexts. Discourse elicitation and analysis provides the opportunity for such an evaluation to occur. In this article, our overall aim was to describe adolescents' language performance on four elicitation tasks and determine if there…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Secondary School Students, Language Fluency, Language Skills
Phelps, Vicki A. – Roeper Review, 2022
This qualitative cross-case study explores gifted adolescents' perspectives on motivation in learning as a means to better understand their complex motivational and academic needs. Participants consisted of 6 students, ranging in age from 11 to 16, identified as gifted through holistic measures including cognition scores, interviews, and other…
Descriptors: Academically Gifted, Student Motivation, Adolescents, Gifted Education
Stewart, Mary Amanda; Walker, Katie; Revelle, Carol – Texas Journal of Literacy Education, 2018
In various conversations regarding how to teach language and literacy to adolescent English Learners (ELs), students' voices are often lost. This article privileges those voices by surveying ELs in Texas high schools regarding what, why, and how they want to read and write in and out of school. The authors surveyed the students before and after an…
Descriptors: Adolescents, English Language Learners, Student Surveys, High School Students
Chen, Cheryl Wei-yu – Innovation in Language Learning and Teaching, 2020
The current study invited a group of adolescent Taiwanese learners to take the role of citizen journalists and make news reports on issues of their interests. Student perceptions of the affordances and constraints of this multimodal writing assignment were gauged through an open-ended questionnaire which students filled out at the end of the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Secondary School Students, Adolescents, Citizen Participation
Zajic, Matthew Carl; Solari, Emily Jane; McIntyre, Nancy Susan; Lerro, Lindsay; Mundy, Peter Clive – Grantee Submission, 2021
Children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) demonstrate heterogeneous writing skills that are generally lower than their typically developing (TD) peers and similar to peers with attention difficulties like attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD). Recent evidence suggests children with ASD spend less time engaging in writing tasks…
Descriptors: Autism, Pervasive Developmental Disorders, Writing Skills, Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder
Worthman, Christopher; Troiano, Beverly – Critical Studies in Education, 2019
In this article, we draw on the work of Michel Foucault to analyze one student's subject development in an expository writing classroom. James, the participant, was embarking on the project of becoming a good student, as he understood it, after struggling and leaving school previously. Drawing on interviews, classroom observations and written…
Descriptors: Expository Writing, Discourse Analysis, Adolescents, Writing Processes
Khoram, Alireza – Cogent Education, 2019
Task-based language teaching comprises both a novel language teaching approach and a burgeoning area of study in the field of second-language acquisition. This study investigated the effects of task type and planning conditions on the accuracy of learners' oral performance during pre-task planning. Eighty intermediate EFL learners were assigned to…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Instruction, Assignments, Planning
Sun, Xiaomei – Reading Matrix: An International Online Journal, 2021
Numerous studies have tested the effects of extensive reading (ER) on L2 acquisition, while limited research has investigated the implementation of ER, especially in secondary L2 teaching contexts. In line with the advocacy of integrating ER into L2 curriculum, this qualitative case study explores a veteran EFL teacher's perceptions of ER…
Descriptors: Reading Strategies, Reading Material Selection, Reading Interests, Experienced Teachers