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Greene Nolan, Hillary; Vang, Mai Chou – Digital Promise, 2023
Providing feedback to students in a sustainable way represents a perennial challenge for secondary teachers of writing. Employing artificial intelligence (AI) tools to give students personalized and immediate feedback holds great promise. Project Topeka offered middle school teachers pre-curated teaching materials, foundational texts and videos,…
Descriptors: Middle School Students, Grade 7, Grade 8, Predictor Variables
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Memis, Esra Kabatas; Öz, Muhittin – Journal of Education and Training Studies, 2017
The purpose of this research is to determine the impact of using multimodal representation modes in the writing practices done by the fifth grade students on their scientific process skills. A combined research method which had both quantitative and qualitative characteristics was used in the research and the groups were chosen as control and…
Descriptors: Writing Skills, Grade 5, Science Process Skills, Elementary School Students
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Camacho, Ana; Alves, Rui A. – Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 2017
Learning to read and write efficiently is of the utmost importance in elementary school. However, writing is frequently difficult and can be demotivating for beginning writers. Fortunately these barriers can be partially alleviated with parental help. Many studies showed that parental involvement influences children's competence and motivation in…
Descriptors: Parent Participation, Writing Instruction, Barriers, Parent Role
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Lee, Bridget Kiger; Enciso, Patricia – Journal of Literacy Research, 2017
Drawing on assets-oriented, sociocultural theories of imagination and learning, the authors argue that the improvisational qualities and expanded resources of dramatic approaches to teaching make a positive difference in the quality of and persistence in students' story writing. The authors describe findings from a controlled quasi-experimental…
Descriptors: Imagination, Creativity, Drama, Teaching Methods
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Martínez-Álvarez, Patricia – International Multilingual Research Journal, 2017
This study explores the impact of hybrid instructional spaces on the purposeful and expansive use of translanguaging practices. Utilizing technology, the study explores the role of multimodality in bilinguals' language multiplicity and dynamism. The research addresses: (a) how do emergent bilinguals in dual language programs deploy their full…
Descriptors: Language Usage, Bilingual Students, Code Switching (Language), Bilingualism
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Petko, Dominik; Egger, Nives; Cantieni, Andrea – Journal of Digital Learning in Teacher Education, 2017
The study examines the use of weblogs in teacher education internships and its impact on student stress levels, self-efficacy, and reflective abilities. One hundred and seventy-six student teachers were randomly assigned to five groups. Four groups used weblogs (a) with emotion-focused or with problem-focused writing assignments in combination (b)…
Descriptors: Student Journals, Electronic Journals, Preservice Teacher Education, Student Teachers
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Price, Deborah Ann; Yates, Gregory C. R. – Educational Psychology, 2015
In the course of normal classroom lessons, 103 students (median 11.10 years) were asked to spend 15 min writing "anything you can think of" about the number 50 on a blank page. The products were independently scored by 2 specialist art teachers and 2 specialist mathematics teachers on criteria relevant to their specialisations.…
Descriptors: Creativity, Writing Assignments, Creative Writing, Art Teachers
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Sun, Zhong; Yang, Xian Min; He, Ke Kang – Computer Assisted Language Learning, 2016
The rapid development of the digital classroom has made it possible to combine extensive reading with online writing, yet research and development in this area are lacking. This study explores the impact of online writing after extensive reading in a classroom setting in China where there was one computer for each student (a 1:1 digital…
Descriptors: Reading Strategies, Elementary School Students, Writing Assignments, Foreign Countries
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Clarke, Aleisha M.; Sixsmith, Jane; Barry, Margaret M. – Health Education Journal, 2015
Objective: This paper reports on the use of child participatory approaches to evaluate the implementation and impact of the "Zippy's Friends" emotional wellbeing programme on children in disadvantaged primary schools in Ireland. Design: As part of the overall evaluation study, which comprised a clustered randomised controlled trial,…
Descriptors: Elementary School Students, Program Implementation, Emotional Development, Well Being
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Wissinger, Daniel R.; De La Paz, Susan – Journal of Educational Psychology, 2016
In this experimental study, 151 middle school students explored 3 historical controversies, first reading and discussing primary source documents in groups, then writing arguments on their own. Students were either randomly assigned to an experimental condition, using argumentative schemes and critical questions as guides during discussions, or to…
Descriptors: Middle School Students, Writing Assignments, History, Controversial Issues (Course Content)
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Hoogeveen, Mariëtte; van Gelderen, Amos – Elementary School Journal, 2015
This study examined whether instruction in genre knowledge enriches students' feedback on each other's writing, resulting in better writing quality. In total 140 sixth-grade students (age 11-13) participated in the study. Two approaches to peer response with additional instruction were compared. In one condition, students were taught specific…
Descriptors: Literary Genres, Writing Instruction, Peer Evaluation, Feedback (Response)
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Karsak, H. Gulhan Orhan; Fer, Seval; Orhan, Feza – Educational Technology & Society, 2014
Academic writing, whether individual or cooperative, is an essential skill for today's graduates. However, motivating and helping students to learn to write effectively, either in cooperative or individual scenarios, poses many challenges, many of which can be overcome by technical means. The aim of this study is to investigate the effect of using…
Descriptors: Web Sites, Diaries, Writing (Composition), Writing Skills
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Thomas-Tate, Shurita; Connor, Carol McDonald; Johnson, Lakeisha – Society for Research on Educational Effectiveness, 2013
Reading comprehension, defined as the active extraction and construction of meaning from all kinds of text, requires children to fluently decode and understand what they are reading. Basic processes underlying reading comprehension are complex and call on the oral language system and a conscious understanding of this system, i.e., metalinguistic…
Descriptors: Dialects, Language Tests, Comparative Analysis, Diagnostic Tests