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Direct linkKarin L. Becker; Danielle Gilbert; Paul Bezerra – Journal of Political Science Education, 2024
College faculty often struggle with getting their students to read assigned materials. Even if students do read, they may not read closely or critically. Not only does the lack of effective reading undermine understanding, but it also hampers class discussions and engagement. To promote close and critical reading in a required, upper-division…
Descriptors: College Faculty, Reading, Reading Assignments, Reading Motivation
Fu Chen; Shan Li; Lijia Lin; Xiaoshan Huang – Education and Information Technologies, 2024
Social annotation plays a crucial role in nurturing and sustaining a collaborative reading community, offering the potential to enhance students' motivation and performance within socially supportive learning environments. Nonetheless, research on the dynamic changes in student engagement in social annotation remains limited. This study aims to…
Descriptors: Computer Mediated Communication, Documentation, Undergraduate Students, Reading Assignments
Taneisha Vilma; Daniel A. Nuccio; Amanda M. Durik; M. Anne Britt – Psychology Learning and Teaching, 2025
Introductory psychology students need supports to read and think in a discipline-specific way when learning psychology theories. We tested the effectiveness of using a task-model steps chart to help students understand, evaluate, and use theories presented in their introductory psychology textbook and lecture videos. We randomly assigned 52…
Descriptors: Introductory Courses, Psychology, Content Area Reading, Textbooks
Amanda J. Shaker; Christopher Brignell; Mathew Pugh – International Journal of Mathematical Education in Science and Technology, 2025
A commonly-held belief is that many university students are 'assessment-driven'; that is, students engage more with activities that are assessed compared with those that are not. 'Incentivised engagement' includes the practice of providing incentives (such as marks or otherwise) for students to engage in particular activities. Perusall is a social…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Reading Assignments, Educational Technology, Technology Uses in Education
Briley L. Lewis; Abygail R. Waggoner; Emma Clarke; Alison L. Crisp; Mark Dodici; Graham M. Doskoch; Michael M. Foley; Ryan Golant; Skylar Grayson; Sahil Hegde; Nathalie Korhonen Cuestas; Charles J. Law; R. R. Lefever; Ishan Mishra; Mark Popinchalk; Sabina Sagynbayeva; Samantha L. Wong; Wei Yan; Kaitlyn L. Ingraham Dixie; K. Supriya – Physical Review Physics Education Research, 2025
Undergraduate physics and astronomy students are expected to engage with scientific literature as they begin their research careers, yet reading comprehension skills are rarely explicitly taught in major courses. We seek to determine the efficacy of a reading assignment designed to improve undergraduate astronomy (or related) majors' perceived…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, College Science, Science Process Skills, Astronomy
Lishan Zhang; Lili Liu; Shuwen Wang; Min Xu; Sixv Zhang; Yun Tang – Journal of Computer Assisted Learning, 2025
Background: Collaborative reading can facilitate students' understanding of complex learning materials. High-quality annotations provided by peer learners are essential for successful collaborative reading. However, it remains to be understood how annotation quality affects reading comprehension. Objectives: A simulated collaborative reading…
Descriptors: Educational Quality, Documentation, Reading Processes, Eye Movements
Lijia Lin; Shan Li; Xiaoshan Huang; Fu Chen – Distance Education, 2024
The purpose of the study was to examine (a) students' social annotation behaviors and engagement change in an undergraduate course throughout the semester, and (b) which social annotation behaviors impact active engagement time. A total of 91 university students' social annotation behaviors, as well as their active engagement time in readings,…
Descriptors: Computer Mediated Communication, Documentation, Undergraduate Students, Student Behavior
Li Zhao; Suqi Li; Yu-Sheng Su – Education and Information Technologies, 2024
Microlearning, as an informal learning approach, has gained increasing popularity in both the training industry and professional studies disciplines over the last several years. However, despite the rising interest in microlearning, how to design microlearning activities and what microcontent is reasonable for microlearning activities have rarely…
Descriptors: Learning Activities, Electronic Learning, Learning Modules, Reading Assignments
Download full textMintra Puripunyavanich – TESL-EJ, 2025
This study explores how Thai university teachers integrate extensive reading (ER) into foundation English courses for non-English majors. 63 participants completed an online questionnaire and eight respondents joined semi-structured Zoom interviews. Questionnaire respondents were categorized into Groups A (less experienced with ER) and B (more…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, College Faculty, College Students, English (Second Language)
Patrick R. Walden; Brittany Khan – Teaching & Learning Inquiry, 2025
This project examined the effectiveness of two reading strategies for graduate speechlanguage pathology students: peer-guided questioning using social annotation and individual reading with general instructor guidance. Thirty-six students were randomly assigned to one of the strategies, alternating for four assignments. Comprehension quizzes and…
Descriptors: Graduate Students, Reading Strategies, Reading Comprehension, Reading Assignments
Guillermo Colls; Melissa Reeve – Journal of College Academic Support Programs, 2024
The past 10 years have seen a major shift in English and English as a Second Language (ESL) placement and pedagogy in California's Community Colleges (CCC), driven by a developmental education reform movement known as acceleration. Popularized by the faculty-led California Acceleration Project (CAP), the acceleration movement focused on reducing…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, College Faculty, Acceleration (Education), English (Second Language)
Ogochukwu Onyiri – HAPS Educator, 2024
In the United States, there is a demand for registered nurses. To be admitted into the nursing program, students need to complete prerequisite courses such as human anatomy and physiology. Many students find human anatomy and physiology challenging due to the nature of the content. Poor performance in human anatomy and physiology can preclude a…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Learner Engagement, College Faculty, Formative Evaluation
Maria Prozesky; Naomi Nkealah – Arts and Humanities in Higher Education: An International Journal of Theory, Research and Practice, 2024
We teach English literature in South Africa, to third- or fourth-language English speakers. Increasingly dissatisfied with the effectiveness of our pedagogy under conditions of massification, we seek to agitate propositions about our students' reading and what these propositions means for our pedagogy. Drawing on narrative theory we analyse our…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Portfolio Assessment, Literacy, Reading Instruction
