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Björn Kindenberg – Language and Education, 2025
This study delves into the complex relationship between storytelling and historical understanding. Focused on how lower-secondary students employ narrative discourse in writing, it examines the extent to which their storytelling aids or limits historical comprehension. Drawing on systemic-functional linguistics and history education theories, the…
Descriptors: Secondary School Students, Story Telling, History, Comprehension
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Rebecca B. Penrose; Kristi J. Chavez – Communications in Information Literacy, 2024
This article showcases an instructor-librarian collaborative model for teaching critical information literacy (CIL) skills in a higher education course by incorporating interactive workshops into a sequence of required course assignments. Using an asset-focused design, this assignment sequence allows students to first demonstrate their existing…
Descriptors: Information Literacy, Teacher Collaboration, Student Writing Models, Research Skills
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Do Ba, Khang; Do Ba, Khai; Lam, Quoc Dung; Le, Dao Thanh Binh An; Nguyen, Phuong Lien; Nguyen, Phuong Quynh; Pham, Quoc Loc – Higher Education Research and Development, 2017
This paper assesses and compares the prevalence of plagiarism across different student and assignment characteristics at a university in Vietnam, using the similarity index reported by the text-matching software Turnitin as a proxy measure of plagiarism on a sample of 681 student papers. The findings present a level of match higher than reported…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Higher Education, Plagiarism, Assignments
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Belinda Mendelowitz – English Teaching: Practice and Critique, 2017
Purpose: Imagination in critical literacy research is usually referred to as a taken for granted concept that is seldom theorised, leaving the assumptions unchecked that everyone has a shared understanding of imagination. This paper aims to challenge critical literacy researchers to rethink the relationship between criticality and imagination and…
Descriptors: Writing Instruction, Imagination, Critical Theory, Data
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Wood, Marianna D.; Wood, Jessa M. – Journal on Excellence in College Teaching, 2018
Students in upper-level courses are expected to observe disciplinary conventions in writing assignments. Common recommendations for teaching conventions require substantial time for instructor feedback and in-class instruction. As an alternative, we tested the effectiveness of a checklist in improving students' performance of these conventions.…
Descriptors: Check Lists, Writing Achievement, Writing Skills, Writing Strategies
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Monte-Sano, Chauncey; De La Paz, Susan; Felton, Mark; Piantedosi, Kelly Worland; Yee, Laura S.; Carey, Roderick L. – Teacher Education Quarterly, 2017
The Common Core State Standards (CCSS) emphasize disciplinary literacy by making literacy instruction every teacher's responsibility (National Governors Association Center for Best Practices & Council of Chief State School Officers, 2010). The CCSS require content area teachers to adapt curriculum and pedagogy to support disciplinary literacy…
Descriptors: Partnerships in Education, History Instruction, Best Practices, Common Core State Standards