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McLeod, Stephen G.; Brown, Gavin C.; McDaniels, Preselfannie W.; Sledge, Lawrence – International Journal of Teaching and Learning in Higher Education, 2008
In response to widespread concern that many American students do not write well enough to meet the requirements of higher education and the workplace, the College Board's National Commission on Writing in America's Schools and Colleges has called for a writing revolution. A key component of this revolution is evaluation, with particular emphasis…
Descriptors: Feedback (Response), Writing Evaluation, Student Evaluation, Reading
Ngwudike, Benjamin C. – Online Submission, 2009
The purpose of this paper was to examine the cross-national performance of fourth- and eighth-grade students in mathematics on the Trends in International Mathematics and Science Study (TIMSS) 2003. The TIMSS assessment data were used to identify nations that have a competitive edge in the critical area of mathematics. The Trends in International…
Descriptors: Teacher Education, Teaching (Occupation), Teacher Education Programs, Teacher Persistence
Ramage, John D.; Bean, John C. – ADE Bulletin, 1990
Updates an earlier report to underscore the inadvisability of imposing large sections of freshman composition students on reluctant departments and to promote further discussion of the issues raised by the program. Discusses some of the more controversial implications raised by the program. (RS)
Descriptors: Class Organization, Class Size, Freshman Composition, Higher Education
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Lang, Kate – History Teacher, 2001
The author began using student assistants when she arrived at the University of Wisconsin (UW)-Eau Claire in the fall of 1996. As a new faculty member, she found herself with a heavy teaching load and no graduate assistant. She observed that some of her colleagues employed undergraduate history majors as tutors for their introductory classes, and…
Descriptors: Majors (Students), World History, Mentors, Teaching Load