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Mnayer, Margaret Jean Christensen – ProQuest LLC, 2022
In the literature specifically addressing the needs of underserved and academically underprepared first-year college student-athletes, research to provide writing strategies that could be learned, applied, and implemented by academic tutors is lacking. In this multiple-case study, I explicitly taught the Inquiry, Modeling, Shared, Collaborative,…
Descriptors: Student Athletes, Literacy, Student Writing Models, College Freshmen
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Goldsmith, Rosalie; Willey, Keith; Boud, David – European Journal of Engineering Education, 2019
Writing practices are seen to be essential for professional engineers, yet many engineering students and academics struggle with written communication, despite years of interventions to improve student writing. Much has been written about the importance of getting engineering students to write, but there has been a little investigation of…
Descriptors: Engineering Education, Foreign Countries, Writing Instruction, Writing Strategies
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Tuck, Jackie – Studies in Higher Education, 2016
A growing body of academic literacies research has enhanced our understanding of university writing as contested, institutionally situated practice with important consequences, particularly for students as they learn to negotiate the writing demands of university study. Less empirical attention has been paid to the practices of subject academics…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Higher Education, Academic Discourse, Writing Skills
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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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McKeown, Debra; Brindle, Mary; Harris, Karen R.; Graham, Steve; Collins, Alyson A.; Brown, Megan – Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 2016
In this mixed methods study, qualitative, quantitative, and single-case methods were combined to provide a comprehensive investigation of teacher and student outcomes following practice-based professional development (PBPD) for self-regulated strategy development (SRSD) in writing. Qualitative observations were used to determine outcomes among the…
Descriptors: Faculty Development, Individualized Instruction, Coaching (Performance), Mixed Methods Research
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Kastberg, Signe E.; Lischka, Alyson E.; Hillman, Susan L. – North American Chapter of the International Group for the Psychology of Mathematics Education, 2016
This cross-case analysis of three distinct letter writing activities between prospective teachers (PTs) and K-12 learners provides insights into PTs' levels of feedback according to Hattie and Timperley's (2007) framework. PTs' written feedback from letter writing activities conducted in teacher preparation programs were analyzed using this…
Descriptors: Feedback (Response), Preservice Teachers, Preservice Teacher Education, Mathematics Activities
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Houston, Cynthia R. – Action in Teacher Education, 2016
Reflective practice is an important skill that teachers must develop to be able to assess the effectiveness of their teaching and modify their instructional behavior. In many education programs reflective narratives, which are often part of teaching portfolios, are intended to assess students' abilities in these areas. Research on reflectivity in…
Descriptors: Scaffolding (Teaching Technique), Reflection, Writing Processes, Content Analysis
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Laura Magalas; Thomas G. Ryan – International Journal of Progressive Education, 2016
The Young Writers Program (YWP) is the latest writing workshop to be developed for the classroom. It challenges students to choose a topic and write a novel-length piece based on that topic, without worrying about spelling or grammar. While the foundation of this philosophy is solid, the support and structure of the Young Writers Program website…
Descriptors: Laboratories, Writing (Composition), Web Sites, Novels