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Adams, Cindy Chesworth; Columba, Lynn – School Science and Mathematics, 2014
College instructors often teach scientific thinking by asking students to review and analyze a primary research article. The main purpose of this study was to explore how classroom response systems (CRS) could help impact the quality of written analysis papers submitted for this assignment by students taking 100-level biology courses at a…
Descriptors: Introductory Courses, Science Education, Audience Response Systems, Biology
Abbott, William; Nantz, Kathryn A. – Issues in Integrative Studies, 2012
Having engaged in interdisciplinary team-teaching in both the two-course cluster format and the single course format, we intend to show how we helped students recognize and find their own integrative insights between the disciplines of history and economics. In the process we not only compare the advantages and disadvantages of each format but…
Descriptors: Thinking Skills, Integrated Activities, History Instruction, Economics Education
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Karchmer-Klein, Rachel; Shinas, Valerie Harlow – Research in the Schools, 2012
This study investigated the modes, semiotic resources, and intersemiotic relationships present in the design of multimodal electronic texts. The participants comprised 10 women and 2 men, who were enrolled in a graduate-level course focused on multimodality and who used a virtual poster tool to respond to a classroom assignment. Content analysis…
Descriptors: Content Analysis, Teacher Education Programs, Investigations, Literacy
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Lam, Paul; Lam, Shun Leung; Lam, John; McNaught, Carmel – Australasian Journal of Educational Technology, 2009
The number of academic eBooks in university libraries is increasing. Reading digital materials such as newspapers is valued in Hong Kong; however, students' perceptions of the value of reading academic eMaterials are not well known. In this study we investigated 12 students' use of academic eBooks on mobile readers in two ways. Six students had…
Descriptors: Student Attitudes, Research Libraries, Foreign Countries, Electronic Libraries