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Klein, Perry; Bildfell, Ashley; Dombroski, Jill D.; Giese, Christine; Sha, Kristen Wing-Yan; Thompson, Serena C. – Reading & Writing Quarterly, 2022
Experimental research on strategy instruction for beginning writers has only recently begun. This study investigated the role of self-regulation instruction in Grade 1 strategy learning. In a pretest-post-test quasi-experiment, 120 Grade 1 students participated in a unit of study on personal narrative in one of three conditions: (1) Self-Regulated…
Descriptors: Metacognition, Writing Strategies, Pretests Posttests, Comparative Analysis
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Higashi, Ross M.; Schunn, Christian D.; Flot, Jesse B. – Educational Technology Research and Development, 2017
Free online courses, including Massively Open Online Courses, have great potential to increase the inclusiveness of education, but suffer from very high course dropout rates. A study of 172 K-12 students and 114 K-12 teachers taking the same free, online, summertime programming course finds that student and teacher populations have different…
Descriptors: Online Courses, Large Group Instruction, Dropout Rate, Academic Persistence
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Blaauw-Hara, Mark – Community College Journal of Research and Practice, 2016
Community colleges are experiencing growing numbers of student veterans. Unfortunately, much training for faculty and staff tends to stem from a deficit mindset: the focus is on remediating what student veterans lack rather than building on their unique strengths. Training programs, courses, and college interventions that acknowledge and build on…
Descriptors: Veterans, Community Colleges, Intervention, College Students