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Dixon, Zachary; George, Kelly – Journal of Academic Ethics, 2021
This paper reports on a study of crowd-sourcing 'study aid' web platforms. Students are sharing completed academic coursework through a growing network of 'study aid' web platforms like CourseHero.com. These websites facilitate the crowd-sourced exchange of coursework, and effectively support plagiarism. However, virtually no data exists…
Descriptors: Ethics, Plagiarism, Web Sites, Sharing Behavior
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Wright, Vince – Curriculum and Teaching, 2017
Specific acts of problem solving with rates and ratios were interpreted using a journey metaphor derived from Skemp's (1979) construct of director systems. To successfully undertake a problem solving journey a learner must recognise their starting place (present state), have a sense of destination (goal state), and co-ordinate sub-routes along the…
Descriptors: Problem Solving, Figurative Language, Mathematics, Mathematical Concepts
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Branum-Martin, Lee; Patchan, Melissa M. – Society for Research on Educational Effectiveness, 2016
Peer learning is often used in classrooms to help and support knowledge and skill acquisition. One form of peer learning, peer assessment, involves the quantitative (i.e., peer ratings) or qualitative (i.e., peer feedback) evaluation of a learner's performance by another learner among students. While we might be concerned about the quality of the…
Descriptors: Peer Teaching, Peer Evaluation, Writing (Composition), Writing Assignments
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Barzilai, Sarit; Ka'adan, Ibtisam – Metacognition and Learning, 2017
Learning to integrate multiple information sources is vital for advancing learners' digital literacy. Previous studies have found that learners' epistemic metacognitive knowledge about the nature of knowledge and knowing is related to their strategic integration performance. The purpose of this study was to understand how these relations come into…
Descriptors: Epistemology, Metacognition, Computer Literacy, Information Sources
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Gil-Glazer, Ya'ara; Walter, Ofra; Eilam, Billie – Journal of Education, 2019
This article presents the major findings of a longitudinal study on the use of photograph-based assignments to improve higher-order thinking and language skills among second- and fifth-grade students using an intervention framework and a convergent mixed method (quantitative and qualitative) approach. The method promoted oriented study skills for…
Descriptors: Thinking Skills, Longitudinal Studies, Photography, Assignments
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Liu, Ming; Calvo, Rafael A.; Pardo, Abelardo; Martin, Andrew – IEEE Transactions on Learning Technologies, 2015
Engagement is critical to the success of learning activities such as writing, and can be promoted with appropriate feedback. Current engagement measures rely mostly on data collected by observers or self-reported by the participants. In this paper, we describe a learning analytic system called Tracer, which derives behavioral engagement measures…
Descriptors: Student Behavior, Learner Engagement, Writing Assignments, Visualization
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Serder, Margareta; Jakobsson, Anders – Cultural Studies of Science Education, 2015
Large-scale assessment, such as the Programme for International Assessment (PISA), plays an increasingly important role in current educational practice and politics. However, many scholars have questioned the validity and reliability of the tests and the extent to which they actually constitute trustworthy representations of students' knowledge.…
Descriptors: Science Tests, Knowledge Level, Scientific Literacy, Assignments
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Elmslie, Bruce T.; Tebaldi, Edinaldo – Journal of Economic Education, 2010
Many instructors in subjects such as economics are frequently concerned with how to teach technical material to undergraduate students with limited mathematical backgrounds. One method that has proven successful for the authors is to connect theoretically sophisticated material with actual data. This enables students to see how the theory relates…
Descriptors: Economic Progress, Undergraduate Students, Economics Education, Macroeconomics