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Tye G. Campbell; Tracey Hodges; Sheunghyun Yeo; Erin Rich; Kaleigh Pate – International Journal of Mathematical Education in Science and Technology, 2025
Despite research demonstrating positive effects of writing on student achievement, writing-to-learn remains under-utilised in mathematics and mathematics teacher education. In this paper, we explore how writing-to-learn tasks in a mathematics methods course influenced elementary preservice teachers' beliefs about teaching in two domains:…
Descriptors: Mathematics Teachers, Preservice Teachers, Mathematics Instruction, Content Area Writing
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Kristen L. Cole – Communication Teacher, 2025
This semester-long original teaching activity is a scaffolded writing assignment with accompanying rubrics that utilize an adapted academic publishing model (i.e. accept, revise and resubmit with minor revisions, or revise and resubmit with major revisions) to facilitate a growth mindset. This revise-and-resubmit approach to teaching and assessing…
Descriptors: Self Efficacy, Beliefs, Scaffolding (Teaching Technique), Writing Assignments
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Dandotkar, Srikanth; Cruz, Laura E.; Stowell, Jeffrey R.; Britt, M. Anne – Journal of Effective Teaching in Higher Education, 2022
Epistemic beliefs are one's assumptions about knowledge and knowing. Given the research in educational psychology that established epistemic beliefs as reliable predictors of student success, we devised a pedagogical intervention to improve students' epistemic beliefs. In this study, we examined the effectiveness of the reflective writing task as…
Descriptors: Epistemology, Beliefs, Undergraduate Students, Reflection
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Simona Goldin; Chandra L. Alston; J. W. Hammond – SAGE Open, 2024
Higher education is working to diversify the undergraduate curriculum to support critical thinking and promote racial justice--pressing work, particularly at predominantly white colleges and universities. To support students' critical thinking, we need to better understand their awareness of systemic inequities as they enter and exit undergraduate…
Descriptors: Diversity, Barriers, Critical Thinking, Equal Education
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Geoffrey Borman; Trisha Borman; Cong Ye; Lauren Stargel – Society for Research on Educational Effectiveness, 2024
Background: To combat stereotype threat, several school-based field trials have leveraged self-affirmation theory (Steele & Liu, 1983; Liu & Steele, 1986), wherein affirming one's important beliefs and values can buffer against identity threats. Self-affirmation theory posits that individuals are motivated to maintain a positive overall…
Descriptors: Middle School Students, Writing Assignments, Self Advocacy, Self Determination
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Tarchi, Christian – Journal of College Reading and Learning, 2021
People need to critically comprehend information across multiple sources that express contradictory viewpoints to make decisions on relevant everyday-life issues and participate in the democratic discourse. However, the processing of multiple documents depends on readers' prior beliefs. The present study investigated the moderating effect of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Undergraduate Students, Prompting, Reading Comprehension
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Ammah-Tagoe, Naa; Caspary, Kyra; Cannady, Matthew A.; Greenwald, Eric – Teachers College Record, 2021
Background/Context: The emphasis on scientific practices articulated by the National Research Council framework and the Next Generation Science Standards requires significant pedagogical shifts for U.S. science teachers. Purpose/Objective/Research Question/Focus of Study: This study provides a rare window into the challenges and opportunities…
Descriptors: Middle School Teachers, Science Instruction, Persuasive Discourse, Writing Assignments
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Papangkorn, Papitchaya; Phoocharoensil, Supakorn – International Journal of Instruction, 2021
The present study aimed at investigating the similarities and differences of interactional metadiscourse markers and 3-word and 4-word participant-oriented bundles used in English argumentative texts of native speakers of English (NATIVE) and L1 Thai speakers (THAI) through the use of AntConc. The findings revealed that stance resources were used…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Native Speakers, Thai, Second Language Instruction