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Cserni, Robert T.; Rademacher, Heidi E. – College Teaching, 2021
Studies show only 20 to 40 percent of students read assigned texts and are prepared for class discussions. To address this issue we created the "3-2-1 Reading Assignment," in which students engage in critical reading and deep learning by providing "three" points that summarize the text, "two" points that analyze it,…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Reading Assignments, Compliance (Psychology), Critical Thinking
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Cizmar, Anne M.; Holt, Benjamin Tyler – Journal of Political Science Education, 2023
Reading is critical to success in college. Faculty members often decry students who come to class without reading, and unprepared for the lessons of the day. Yet, relatively little empirical research assesses how to best stimulate collegiate reading and what types of reading assessments provide the best student learning outcomes. This paper…
Descriptors: Reading Tests, Randomized Controlled Trials, Critical Reading, Assignments
Head, Alison J. – Project Information Literacy, 2021
While educators believe reading is an investment in learning and knowing, what many are not considering is what reading analytically means to civic life in the digital age when many of the old gatekeepers of traditional publishing are disappearing. As new voices have emerged, and there is an explosion of reading material, there is also less…
Descriptors: Reading Comprehension, Undergraduate Students, Content Area Reading, Reading Materials
Trisha Kelly Travers – ProQuest LLC, 2024
This dissertation explored how effectively first-year writing (FYW) evaluated and selected sources for their researched writing assignments. Though students were taught how to access sources from the library and offered sources on the course management system, most often they obtained sources via the open internet. As mis- and disinformation…
Descriptors: Misinformation, Writing Assignments, Information Sources, Learning Processes
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Egege, Sandra; Vered, Karen Orr – Across the Disciplines, 2019
It is commonly accepted in the academy that developing a critical thinking capacity and related capabilities will make students more effective thinkers and writers, and that these are desirable traits for graduates to have no matter what path they take after graduation. While most academics agree that critical thinking is an essential component of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Critical Thinking, Abstract Reasoning, Inquiry
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Wood, Suzanne – Collected Essays on Learning and Teaching, 2020
In the later years of undergraduate study, students read, process, and evaluate primary literature within specific fields of study. Shifting from textbooks to the vast amounts of peer-reviewed current literature can be difficult for students. This article details an innovative approach to helping students successfully make this transition through…
Descriptors: Sequential Approach, Writing Assignments, Writing Instruction, Critical Thinking
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Ives, Lindsey; Mitchell, Taylor Joy; Hübl, Helena – InSight: A Journal of Scholarly Teaching, 2020
Recognizing a need to promote critical reading among students at our STEM university, the authors implemented an active reading strategy called double-entry notes across four general education writing and humanities courses. We hypothesized that the tool would help engage students in the critical reading strategies they tended to lack. The tool…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Reading Instruction, Critical Reading, STEM Education
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Higley, Corrine; Elliott, Kevin C.; Cheruvelil, Jubin – Teaching in Higher Education, 2020
Course readings play a crucial role in many college courses, but students often struggle to comprehend this material. Building on evidence that students benefit from playing the role of an editor when reading each other's writing, this exploratory study investigated whether they benefit from taking the same editorial stance to assigned readings.…
Descriptors: Reading Comprehension, Reading Improvement, Editing, Critical Reading
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Hall, Maureen Patricia – AERA Online Paper Repository, 2017
This case study involved a deep reading intervention, creating a way to bridge theories of contemplative practice and mindfulness into classroom practice. Participants were graduate students enrolled in Reading Literacy and Content Methods, a capstone course for teacher licensure before their practicums. The students were led through a deep…
Descriptors: Graduate Students, Preservice Teachers, Reading Processes, Reading Skills
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Bacabac, Florence Elizabeth – CEA Forum, 2019
Since writing in the disciplines (WID) is focused on learning how to write formal documents of a professional register, it is important to note that each field or discipline has its own style, structure, and format when it comes to writing, and most composition courses seldom facilitate the transfer of these specialized skills in the classroom.…
Descriptors: Writing Across the Curriculum, Critical Thinking, Writing Instruction, Students
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Wiles, Janine L.; Allen, Ruth E. S.; Butler, Rachael – Journal of University Teaching and Learning Practice, 2016
This paper adds to the nascent literature on teaching research methods and what students learn from courses and assessment. Postgraduate students are often confronted with large amounts of reading, and the content of material can be intimidating. Convincing them also to engage critically with readings is even more difficult. We report on a…
Descriptors: Graduate Students, Critical Reading, Critical Thinking, Writing Skills
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Stearns, S. A. – College Teaching, 2017
Designing courses for optimal level student learning is dependent upon student participation. This study examined one way to encourage further student participation in online discussions. Of specific importance was how to encourage students to read their student-colleagues' online discussion responses: not just a minimum number of responses but…
Descriptors: Blended Learning, Instructional Design, Student Participation, Computer Mediated Communication
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Ford, Natalie Mera – Journal on Excellence in College Teaching, 2016
Required first-year English courses present instructors with a challenge common in the humanities: How do we motivate students to engage in active reading rather than passively scroll down online guides? Introductory literature courses aim to develop students' critical thinking through close reading, analysis, and argumentation--skills demanding…
Descriptors: Introductory Courses, Learner Engagement, Critical Reading, Reading Achievement
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Cohen, Avi J.; Williams, Andrea L. – Journal of Economic Education, 2019
Despite widely acknowledged benefits of integrating writing into economics courses, instructors' costs are often prohibitive. To reduce costs and make writing assignments more feasible, the authors describe multi-part, scaffolded writing assignments developed by an economist and a WAC (Writing Across the Curriculum) specialist, integrated into an…
Descriptors: Writing Assignments, Scaffolding (Teaching Technique), Peer Evaluation, Introductory Courses
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DeWall, Nichole – Journal on Excellence in College Teaching, 2016
With the advent of online synopses, e-guides, and Internet study aids, millennial college students have many ways to evade direct interactions with the texts assigned in humanities classes. As a result, fewer and fewer of them are developing the analytical and close reading skills that college instructors value so highly. In this essay, the author…
Descriptors: Active Learning, Memorization, College Students, Critical Reading
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