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Katherine Batchelor; Kelli Rushek; Julia Beaumont – Journal of Adolescent & Adult Literacy, 2024
In this discussion, we argue for those who are literacy educators to reframe gossip as a dialogic, feminist act in their teaching and interpretation of gossip as framed in the literature they teach in secondary English language arts (ELA) classrooms. Reframing gossip as a feminist act invites meaning-makers to view those conversations and…
Descriptors: Language Arts, Literacy Education, Information Dissemination, Error Patterns
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Siegfried, John; Colander, David – Journal of Economic Education, 2022
Teaching students to use critical thinking skills is a popular goal of many economics courses. But what does "critical thinking" really mean, and how is it implemented? This article considers various interpretations of "critical thinking" and distinguishes "big-think" from "little-think" critical thinking,…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Economics Education, Critical Thinking, Textbooks
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James Van Loon; Shawn McCann – Journal of Electronic Resources Librarianship, 2024
Academic libraries must provide accessible electronic and information technology to patrons using assistive technology to access library materials. Accessibility of scholarly material is particularly important in the STEM disciplines, where attrition rates of students with disabilities is higher than in other fields. In this study, the…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, STEM Education, Accessibility (for Disabled), Bibliographic Databases
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Campbell, Matthew P.; Baldinger, Erin E.; Graif, Foster – Mathematics Teacher Educator, 2020
Approximations of practice provide opportunities for teacher candidates (TCs) to engage in the work of teaching in situations of reduced complexity. A problem of practice for teacher educators relates to how to represent student voice in approximations to engage TCs with interactive practices in meaningful ways. In this article, we share an…
Descriptors: Preservice Teacher Education, Preservice Teachers, Teaching Methods, Student Participation
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Joseph, Ariana; Budden, Katherine; Cisek, Richard; Tokarz, Danielle – Journal of Chemical Education, 2018
In a university third-year instrumental chemistry laboratory students build a laser based polarimeter for determining light scattering with commercially available optical components used in modern optics research laboratories. During this laboratory experiment, students learn that solutions containing molecules which scatter light also influence…
Descriptors: Chemistry, Science Instruction, Undergraduate Students, Error Patterns
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Alharbi, Majed – Arab World English Journal, 2020
This paper takes on a heuristic approach (Crowley & Debra, 2004) to the study of Saudi writerly identity. In this critical review paper, the author argues that little work has been carried out to study Saudi English as a second langauge (ESL) writers' identity, for most of the empirical studies approach their writing as substandard writers.…
Descriptors: Heuristics, Self Concept, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
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Hodgson, Paula; Corolla, Kristof; Ho, Wai Yee Angel – International Association for Development of the Information Society, 2018
Instilling a creative mind is the foundation to prepare future architecture students. University educators can adopt an iterative approach in which students go through cycles of learning. This paper reports student experiences on a three-cycle team project in an architecture course that was part of a master program. This consisted of the group…
Descriptors: Cooperative Learning, Creativity, Architectural Education, Reflection
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Cop, Michael; Hatfield, Hunter – New Zealand Journal of Teachers' Work, 2016
Inspired by the 'teaching as inquiry' model, we initiated a focusing inquiry on 2,811 English diagnostic tests that were taken in 2014-2015 by first-year students entering the Health Sciences programme at the University of Otago, a programme for aspiring health professionals. That inquiry aimed to improve the first-year paper taken by students who…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, College Freshmen, Grammar, Error Patterns
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Galligan, Linda; Hobohm, Carola – Mathematics Education Research Journal, 2015
This paper investigates how an online test ("Self-Test" developed at the University of Southern Queensland) can enrich students' understanding of their academic numeracy, through a purpose-built, self-assessment tool aligned with online modules. Since its creation and evaluation, the tool has been developed and tailored to suit other…
Descriptors: Self Evaluation (Individuals), Mathematics Skills, Numeracy, College Mathematics
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Solovieva, Tatiana I.; Bock, Jeremy M. – Journal of Postsecondary Education and Disability, 2014
Under the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), people with disabilities are guaranteed access to all postsecondary programs and services. The purpose of this study, conducted by the Center for Excellence in Disabilities, was to evaluate the current status of a major university's web accessibility. The results indicated that in 2011 only 51% of…
Descriptors: Disabilities, Postsecondary Education, Universities, Web Sites
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Zhao, Changhua – English Language Teaching, 2013
In Inner Mongolia, those Mongolian students face lots of difficulties in learning English. Especially the English translation ability of Mongolian students is a weak point. It is worth to think a problem that how to let our students use the English freely on a certain foundation. This article investigates the problems of Mongolian English learners…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Translation
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Jordan, Sally – European Journal of Science and Mathematics Education, 2014
Inspection of thousands of student responses to computer-marked assessment questions has brought insight into the errors made by adult distance learners of science. Most of the questions analysed were in summative use and required students to construct their own response. Both of these things increased confidence in the reliability of the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Undergraduate Students, College Science, Science Education
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Kaweera, Chittima – English Language Teaching, 2013
This paper aims to review the theoretical concept of interlingual interference of the mother tongue, Thai to the target language, English and intralingual interference found in EFL student writing in Thai context with the attempt to define the existence of errors according to their sources. This review article also exemplifies some frequent errors…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Interference (Language), Native Language
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Rees, Emma L. E. – Gender and Education, 2011
In this article, the author discusses three books whose shared concern is what constitutes an "individual". Each, in its own way, challenges the idea that "identity" is fixed or uncomplicated. The books, in trying to find the underlying cause of what makes up an individual's "identity", advocate strongly the need…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Self Concept, Identification (Psychology), Females
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Pasin, Federico; Giroux, Helene – Computers & Education, 2011
This study presents a new simulation game and analyzes its impact on operations management education. The proposed simulation was empirically tested by comparing the number of mistakes during the first and second halves of the game. Data were gathered from 100 teams of four or five undergraduate students in business administration, taking their…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Business Administration Education, Teaching Methods, Educational Games
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