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Benjamin M. Torsney; Sarah Rawls; Joseph I. Eisman; Catherine Pressimone Beckowski; Cheryl B. Torsney – Educational and Developmental Psychologist, 2025
Objective: The objective of this study was threefold: (a) to create a rubric for response complexity (RC), defined as an admixture of response length, grammatical diversity, categorisation, and sophistication; (b) to measure behavioural and cognitive engagement through students' written responses on a school-based written activity, and (c) to…
Descriptors: College Students, Learner Engagement, Responses, Difficulty Level
Fisher, Rick; DeDiego, Amanda C.; Cooper, Kathryn E.; Frye, Kathleen; Larson, Michele D.; Duball, Chelsea – Across the Disciplines, 2022
In this study at a research-intensive public university, a group of eight instructors across a range of disciplines designed a writing assignment in which students (n=104) chose to write to one of three audiences--the teacher, a novice, or an adjacent expert. Students were then asked to complete a questionnaire that included open-ended questions…
Descriptors: College Students, Writing Assignments, Audiences, Teachers
Saha, Sujan Kumar – Smart Learning Environments, 2021
In this paper, we present a system for automatic evaluation of the quality of a question paper. Question paper plays a major role in educational assessment. The quality of a question paper is crucial to fulfilling the purpose of the assessment. In many education sectors, question papers are prepared manually. A prior analysis of a question paper…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Graduate Students, Writing Assignments, Writing Evaluation
Na Tao; Ying Wang – Language Teaching Research, 2025
Task design features have different effects on second language (L2) production and can be adopted for different pedagogical purposes. However, the synergistic effects of task features were left unexplored in the extant task-based literature. The present study investigated the synergistic effects of two task design features, namely, prior knowledge…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, English (Second Language), Second Language Instruction, Writing (Composition)
Breno B. Silva; Katarzyna Kutylowska; Agnieszka Otwinowska – Language Teaching Research, 2024
The involvement load hypothesis (ILH), which predicts the lexical learning potential of tasks, assumes that writing sentences (SW) and compositions (CW) using novel target words (TWs) lead to similar lexical gains. However, research on the issue is scarce and contradictory. One possibility is that the higher cognitive load of CW hinders learning…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Difficulty Level, Writing Assignments, Writing (Composition)
Mirva Heikkilä; Miira Häkkinen; Anni Vidbäck; Mirjamaija Mikkilä-Erdmann; Ilari E. Sääksjärvi – Environmental Education Research, 2025
Environmental content is becoming increasingly important in schools, but teachers may have difficulty grasping accurate knowledge. This study investigated how student teachers construct a conceptual understanding of biodiversity loss in an online environment. Sixty-five first-semester primary student teachers at a Finnish university were given the…
Descriptors: Student Teachers, Teacher Education Programs, Biodiversity, Scientific Concepts
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
Ruben Daniel Cayoja Ancalle – ProQuest LLC, 2023
The focus of the current study was to explore and describe the shared experiences of international students as they adapted academically and socially to a Christian university in North Texas. The research focus resulted from the gap identified in the literature review: the lack of knowledge about the experiences of international students as they…
Descriptors: Social Adjustment, Student Adjustment, Undergraduate Students, Friendship
Cisco, Jonathan – Teaching & Learning Inquiry, 2020
Students face challenging texts and concepts across the disciplines in higher education, and many students lack the reading skills and strategies to make sense of them. The aim of the small study described in this article was to explore the benefits, if any, of the difficulty paper, a written formative assessment that asks students to explore…
Descriptors: Writing Assignments, Writing Across the Curriculum, Formative Evaluation, Content Area Reading
Junker, Christine R.; Jacquemin, Stephen J. – College Teaching, 2017
Scholars have suggested that reading literature can foster empathy. However, learning empathy through literature in the classroom is understudied. The primary objective of this study was to assess whether affective and cognitive empathy, as demonstrated in student writing, relates to textual attributes, the style of writing prompt, student writing…
Descriptors: Empathy, Literature, College Students, Writing (Composition)
Canning, Elizabeth A.; Priniski, Stacy J.; Harackiewicz, Judith M. – Grantee Submission, 2019
Utility-value (UV) writing interventions help students find the personal relevance of course material to promote interest and performance. However, little is known about how best to frame the intervention, particularly in the 2-year college context where students have more varied backgrounds than the samples previously studied. Using a randomized…
Descriptors: Two Year Colleges, Intervention, Comparative Analysis, Psychological Patterns
Yood, Jessica – Composition Forum, 2014
Writing studies' "recent enthusiasm" (Roderick "CF 25") for complexity theory has morphed into higher education's rabid embrace of reform. New curricula claim commitment to an "advanced," "networked," and "global" culture by erasing introductory composition, thereby dismissing the…
Descriptors: Beginning Writing, Difficulty Level, Educational Change, Higher Education
Elgort, Irina – Language Learning & Technology, 2017
This study investigates differences in the language and discourse characteristics of course blogs and traditional academic submissions produced in English by native (L1) and advanced second language (L2) writers. One hundred and fifty-two texts generated by 38 graduate students within the context of the same Master's level course were analysed…
Descriptors: Graduate Students, Student Journals, Electronic Journals, Writing Assignments
Caropreso, Edward J.; Haggerty, Mark; Ladenheim, Melissa – Journal of the National Collegiate Honors Council, 2016
Learning to write well is a significant outcome of higher education, as confirmed and illustrated in the Written Communication VALUE Rubric of the Association of American Colleges and Universities (AAC&U). Scholars agree that writing and thinking are linked. Thinking about this relationship between writing and thinking in the context of…
Descriptors: Writing Instruction, Writing Assignments, Honors Curriculum, Program Effectiveness
Teaching to the Task: Preservice Teachers' Instruction for Cognitively Demanding Writing Assignments
Susanna Latham Benko – ProQuest LLC, 2012
In this study, I examine the instruction of four preservice English teachers (PSTs) for cognitively demanding literature-based writing tasks in order to investigate the types of tasks that PSTs identify as cognitively demanding, how PSTs' instruction for such tasks maintains or degrades the task's intellectual rigor, and possible influences and/or…
Descriptors: Preservice Teachers, Writing Instruction, Writing Assignments, Difficulty Level
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