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Goldina, Anya; Licona, Peter; Ricci, Patricia Likos – HAPS Educator, 2020
Extra credit assignments are often viewed with disdain by educators as opportunities to earn points for students that lack the study skills to do well on exams and quizzes. However, these assignments can serve as a platform for students to apply the course material to their own lives, optimizing their strengths and creativity, and encouraging them…
Descriptors: Assignments, Anatomy, Physiology, Allied Health Occupations Education
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Copper, Jenna – Journal of Interactive Learning Research, 2018
Considering the prevalence of mobile technologies among secondary students, this case study examined a new mode for reflective writing: mobile journaling. Because reflective writing is spontaneous and continuous, mobile journaling, using a mobile device to record, store, and share personal reflections, is an innovative approach to improve the…
Descriptors: Electronic Learning, Handheld Devices, Technology Uses in Education, Journal Writing
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Piergiovanni, Polly R. – College Teaching, 2014
A college education is expected to improve students' critical thinking skills. Keeping students active in class--through writing activities and class discussion--has been shown to help students think critically. In this article, creative hands-on activities, which are common in engineering courses, are shown to improve students' critical thinking…
Descriptors: Critical Thinking, Engineering Education, General Education, College Students
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Dee, Thomas S. – Journal of Research on Educational Effectiveness, 2015
One provocative explanation for the continued persistence of minority achievement gaps involves the performance-dampening anxiety thought to be experienced by minority students in highly evaluative settings (i.e., "stereotype threat"). Recent field-experimental studies suggest that modest, low-cost "buffering" interventions…
Descriptors: Minority Group Students, Achievement Gap, Intervention, Self Efficacy