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Johnson, Marcus Lee; Sinatra, Gale M. – Contemporary Educational Psychology, 2013
This study explored the relationship between task values, engagement, and conceptual change. One hundred and sixty-six under graduate students were randomly assigned to one of three task value instructional inductions (utility, attainment, and control) to determine whether induced task values would result in different degrees of engagement and…
Descriptors: Learner Engagement, College Students, Concept Formation, Student Motivation
Capanegra, Ana Isabel – ProQuest LLC, 2014
Many scholars have researched reading-to-writing relations, some of which found reading to be an effective enhancer of writing (Al-Jarf, 2004; Asencior, 2006; Lee, 1986a; Lee & Riley, 1990; Perez-Sotelo & Gonzalez-Bueno, 2003; Shang, 2007). Similar beginner college student samples were used previously by Asencior (2006), Perez-Sotelo and…
Descriptors: Reading Writing Relationship, College Students, Experimental Groups, Control Groups
Wickramaarachchi, Thilina Indrajie – Advances in Language and Literary Studies, 2014
The study examines the interaction between reading and writing processes in general and more specifically the impact of pre-reading tasks incorporating writing tasks (referred to as "prw tasks") in helping the development of inferential reading comprehension. A sample of 70 first year ESL students of the University of Kelaniya were…
Descriptors: Writing Exercises, Writing Processes, Reading Comprehension, Experimental Groups
Hugerat, Muhamad; Kortam, Naji – EURASIA Journal of Mathematics, Science & Technology Education, 2014
Twenty-eight freshmen majoring in biology and/or chemistry in an Arab college in Israel, were given a pre-test and a post-test in which they had to identify the control group and design a controlled experiment. During the course an intervention was used. Science was taught by inquiry while using strategies that promote higher-order thinking skills…
Descriptors: Thinking Skills, Inquiry, Science Instruction, Teaching Methods
Slusser, Suzanne R.; Erickson, Rebecca J. – Teaching Sociology, 2006
Research has documented that collaborative learning groups improve student learning and increase the likelihood that students will have positive attitudes about both the subject matter and their peers. However, researchers know much less about how collaborative learning groups may influence student behavior and the extent to which their utility…
Descriptors: Control Groups, Student Behavior, Testing, Cooperative Learning