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Cornelia Schoor; Jean-François Rouet; M. Anne Britt – Journal of Educational Psychology, 2024
Previous research on document selection has found that college-level readers are generally able to differentiate trustworthy from less trustworthy sources. Yet, a preference for selecting trustworthy sources may depend on features of the reading situation and readers' beliefs in science. In the current study, college students were tasked with…
Descriptors: Reading Material Selection, College Students, Publications, Expertise
Wall, K. Blaine – CEA Forum, 2021
Given the political and social fragmentation and incivility that currently exists in America, this paper examines existing scholarship on diversifying the American literary canon in order to increase cultural literacy and to encourage reflective and critical conversations about modern-day issues of social justice. A brief overview of pedagogical…
Descriptors: Stranger Reactions, College Faculty, Literature Appreciation, United States Literature
Lee, Hye Yeon; List, Alexandra – Discourse Processes: A Multidisciplinary Journal, 2023
This study examined the role of relevance determinations within the context of undergraduates' multiple text reading and writing. In this study, undergraduate students were randomly assigned to one of two experimental conditions (i.e., to compose a research report about either the causes of or the solutions to the urban housing crisis), using a…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Literacy, Comparative Analysis, Relevance (Education)
Randall, David – National Association of Scholars, 2019
The National Association of Scholars (NAS) has analyzed college common readings since 2010. The limitations of college common reading selections derive from their institutional frameworks. Non-academic mission statements steer selection committees away from intellectually challenging books toward those promoting progressive beliefs or activism;…
Descriptors: College Students, Recreational Reading, Books, Reading Programs
Randall, David – National Association of Scholars, 2018
The National Association of Scholars (NAS) has analyzed college common readings since 2010. Common reading selections partly reflect the constraints on their selection committees. Each year colleges admit large number of students who have not yet read a college-level book and some of whom have never read a full-length adult book at all. Faculty…
Descriptors: College Students, Recreational Reading, Reading Programs, Books
Meese, Brenda L.; Gustafson, Julia Chance – Journal of Electronic Resources Librarianship, 2018
This article highlights key points in the process of collaboration, creation, and assessment of a digital exhibit that tells the story of a larger digital collection, and its use in project-based assignments for a course on women's sporting experiences. The exhibit is intended to be both a classroom research tool and a model of digital…
Descriptors: Womens Athletics, Females, Physical Education, College Students
Sara Kathleen Sterner – ProQuest LLC, 2019
Since its beginning, children's literature has been influenced by white gatekeepers and power brokers. From authors, illustrators, and publishers to librarians, educators, and booksellers, the people creating and promoting children's literature have been predominantly white (Borsheim-Black, 2015, Thomas, 2016, Welch, 2016). Due in no small part to…
Descriptors: Childrens Literature, Phenomenology, Whites, Power Structure
Stone, Carolyn; Conrad, Deborah – Language and Literacy Spectrum, 2017
The use of quality texts in elementary classrooms plays a major role in children's literacy development. Quality children's literature helps learners develop into skilled readers and writers with increased gains in vocabulary knowledge and comprehension. This paper demonstrates how pre-service teachers gained an understanding of the educational…
Descriptors: Childrens Literature, Teaching Methods, Vocabulary Development, Preservice Teachers
Thompson, Carol L.; Kleine, Michael W. – International Journal for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning, 2016
New scholarship advocates that students should learn deeply and well. Little information exists on exactly how to get students deeply into material so that they understand it inside and out, backward and forward and in a way that enables them to construct knowledge schemas. The authors have developed a heuristic list of communication response…
Descriptors: Metacognition, Reading, Heuristics, Learning Strategies
Preuss, Gregory S.; Schurtz, D. Ryan; Powell, Caitlin A. J.; Combs, David J. Y.; Smith, Richard H. – Journal of the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning, 2013
This article evaluates a writing assignment in which students read a
non-fiction book that they chose from a list provided by their instructor, identified examples of social psychological phenomena, and fully explained how those examples fit social psychology concepts. This novel twist on a traditional assignment yielded surprisingly robust…
Descriptors: Social Psychology, Nonfiction, Book Reviews, Writing Assignments
Thorne, Ashley; Turscak, Marilee; Wood, Peter – National Association of Scholars, 2014
Assigning a summer reading to entering freshmen is a growing trend at hundreds of American colleges and universities. Colleges typically pick one book and ask students to read it outside their courses. Many invite the author to help kick off the year by speaking on campus at convocation. Most colleges see the key purpose of a common reading…
Descriptors: Books, College Freshmen, Reading Programs, College Programs
Finn, Heather B.; Avni, Sharon – Current Issues in Language Planning, 2016
This qualitative study offers critical insight into how language policy interacts with daily classroom decisions at a large and highly diverse urban community college in the United States. Specifically, it examines the challenges that faculty teaching developmental writing courses for English language learners experience when determining what…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Developmental Programs, Language Planning, Literacy
Thorne, Ashley – National Association of Scholars, 2011
What books do colleges and universities assign as common reading? What themes do the books contain? Are they old books or recent ones? What kinds of colleges and universities have common reading programs? What does a typical common reading program look like? What does all this tell us about the state of American higher education today? To find…
Descriptors: Cultural Influences, Relevance (Education), Cultural Pluralism, Reading Material Selection
Duffy, William – Composition Studies, 2013
English 341: Advanced Composition for Teachers is a three-credit undergraduate course for pre-service educators at Francis Marion University, a mid-size public university located in northeast South Carolina. According to the university catalog, students enrolled in English 341 "explore connections among writing, teaching, and learning as they…
Descriptors: Writing (Composition), Advanced Courses, Undergraduate Study, Preservice Teacher Education
Zickuhr, Kathryn; Rainie, Lee; Purcell, Kristen; Madden, Mary; Brenner, Joanna – Pew Internet & American Life Project, 2012
More than eight in ten Americans between the ages of 16 and 29 read a book in the past year, and six in ten used their local public library. At the youngest end of the spectrum, high schoolers in their late teens (ages 16-17) and college-aged young adults (ages 18-24) are especially likely to have read a book or used the library in the past 12…
Descriptors: Library Services, Public Libraries, Young Adults, Research Needs
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