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María José Aragón – Reading Teacher, 2025
This article explores the affordances of employing an "affective lens" to document bilingual learners' engagement with texts. Drawing from a larger ethnographic study conducted in a sixth-grade classroom, I focus on the experiences of two emergent bilinguals and how their displays of affect provide insight into their complex sense-making…
Descriptors: Bilingual Students, Grade 6, Reading Instruction, Affective Behavior
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Brown, Stephen; Baume, David – Innovations in Education and Teaching International, 2023
This paper reports on responses of 645 students (N = 6540) on 4 University of London (UoL) distance learning courses to a variety of course components. Published research on best practice in student learning stresses the value of active learning and of student collaboration. By contrast, our respondents report that they regard more active…
Descriptors: Cooperative Learning, Group Activities, Student Attitudes, Learning Activities
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Boubekki, Ahcène; Jain, Shailee; Brefeld, Ulf – International Educational Data Mining Society, 2018
Analyzing user behavior in electronic textbooks offers appealing insights into how pupils interact with the book and internalize the content. Using these insights may help to personalize the book, e.g., to support users with special educational needs. Conventional approaches often focus on atomic, user-triggered events like clicks or scrolls. In…
Descriptors: Electronic Publishing, Textbooks, Student Behavior, Reader Text Relationship
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Fiorella, Logan; Pilegard, Celeste – Educational Psychology, 2021
Two experiments investigated how writing an explanation after studying a multimedia lesson influences restudy behavior (eye movements) and learning. In Experiment 1, college students who wrote a retention-based explanation ('Explain how the car's brake system works') spent more time focusing on the text and less time on the picture during the…
Descriptors: College Students, Multimedia Instruction, Student Behavior, Writing Assignments
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Stacey A. Gibson – English Journal, 2017
At a time when some high school English classrooms erase and distort experiences and identities, it is vital for educators to explore pedagogies that provide radically reimagined forms of liberatory thought. This article explores ways the work of Coates can serve as "blueprint liberation" in the English classroom. The line of broken,…
Descriptors: Language Arts, Decolonization, Student Behavior, Cultural Influences
Carey, Jenna L.; Howard, Cameron C.; Leftwich, Rebecca J. – Online Submission, 2013
The purpose of this action research project report was to increase engagement during independent reading for 32 fourth-grade students and 26 seventh-grade science students. At Site A, data was collected from August 27, 2012 through December 14, 2012. At Site B, data was collected from September 24, 2012 through December 14, 2012. Students'…
Descriptors: Reading Difficulties, Student Behavior, Elementary School Students, Grade 4
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Marinak, Barbara A.; Gambrell, Linda B. – Literacy Research and Instruction, 2008
This study investigated the effects of reward proximity and choice of reward on the reading motivation of third-grade students as measured by indicators of task persistence. The major finding from this study was that students who were given a book as a reward and students who received no reward were more motivated to engage in subsequent reading…
Descriptors: Proximity, Persistence, Reading Motivation, Rewards
Lelli, Colleen M. – Online Submission, 2010
This mixed methods study examined preservice teachers' awareness of domestic violence through an undergraduate reading course which focused on children's literature. Pre and post surveys were administered to preservice teachers to determine whether their knowledge and skills in recognizing signs of domestic violence in behaviors of the elementary…
Descriptors: Childrens Literature, Undergraduate Students, Preservice Teachers, Methods Courses
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Tatum, Alfred W. – Educational Leadership, 2006
By selecting appropriate reading materials, teachers can engage African American adolescent males with text, particularly students who have not mastered the skills, strategies, and knowledge that will lead to positive life outcomes. This approach takes into account students' four literacy needs--academic, cultural, emotional, and social--and…
Descriptors: African Americans, Males, Reading Materials, Adolescents