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Frensley, John – Physics Teacher, 2019
Traditional high school physics instruction often comes across as a mere extension of the mathematics classroom to many of our students. Solving numerical physics problems using structures such as the GUESS method (given, unknown, equation, substitute, solve) doesn't help students with conceptual understanding. With the advent of physics education…
Descriptors: High School Students, Secondary School Science, Physics, Science Process Skills
Safwa Abdul-Aziz – ProQuest LLC, 2024
Many students struggle with decoding and implementing feedback given to them on writing assignments. Researchers and instructors have used various technologies and strategies to improve students' uptake of feedback given on written assignments, one of which is a form of video feedback called screencasting. Research has been conducted on students'…
Descriptors: Visual Aids, Video Technology, Feedback (Response), Secondary School Teachers
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Myhill, Debra – British Educational Research Journal, 2009
This article reports on an Economic and Social Research Council-funded study into secondary-aged writers' compositional processes, both as observed in a naturalistic classroom setting and as gathered through post hoc reflections. The sample comprised 38 children drawn from Year 9 and Year 11 who were observed, using an annotated timeline,…
Descriptors: Writing Ability, Time Factors (Learning), Writing (Composition), Writing Processes
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Olson, Carol Booth; Land, Robert; Anselmi, Thelma; AuBuchon, Charlie – Journal of Adolescent & Adult Literacy, 2010
Members of a site of the California Writing Project conducted the study in this article in partnership with a large, urban, low-SES school district where 93% of the students speak English as a second language and 69% are designated Limited English Proficient. Over an eight-year period, a relatively stable group of 55 secondary teachers engaged in…
Descriptors: Writing Evaluation, Learning Strategies, Essays, Limited English Speaking
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Norton, Anderson; Rutledge, Zachary – Mathematics Educator, 2006
In a secondary school mathematics teaching methods course, a research team engaged 22 preservice secondary teachers (PSTs) in designing and posing tasks to algebra students through weekly letter writing. The goal of the tasks was for PSTs to elicit responses that would indicate student engagement in the mathematical processes described by NCTM…
Descriptors: Secondary School Mathematics, Preservice Teachers, High School Students, Task Analysis
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Pouit, Delphine; Golder, Caroline – European Journal of Psychology of Education, 2002
The aim of this study was to show how general models of text production can account for argumentative text planning. It focuses in particular on retrieval process in 11- to 18-year-old children. Various experimental situations were designed to promote different ways of retrieving ideas from long-term memory. Essays written by students were…
Descriptors: Long Term Memory, Essays, Information Retrieval, Persuasive Discourse
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Rowley, Kurt; Meyer, Nick – Journal of Educational Computing Research, 2003
A Computer Tutor for Writers (CTW) was designed to provide procedural facilitation to high school students while they learn the skills and knowledge associated with composition writing. Four previous year-long studies helped identify how to facilitate specific elements of the writing process. The CTW was designed to combine lessons learned from…
Descriptors: Writing Achievement, Achievement Gains, Writing Processes, Writing Assignments