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Abu-Snoubar, Tamador Khalaf – English Language Teaching, 2017
This quantitative study aimed to investigate and compare the use of metacognitive reading Strategies among English as a foreign language students at Al-Balqa Applied University based on their academic field of study. The Survey of Reading Strategies (SORS) (Mokhtari & Sheory, 2002) was the instrument employed. This survey divides the…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Foreign Countries, College Students, Second Language Instruction
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Kinkead, Joyce; Curtis, Kynda – Journal of Service-Learning in Higher Education, 2018
The value of service-learning as a high-impact educational practice in college courses is further documented here through client-centered student projects seeking to increase SOLE food-- sustainable, organic, local, and ethically produced--on the Utah State University campus. Honors students enrolled in a Think Tank series of courses in Science,…
Descriptors: Service Learning, Honors Curriculum, Sustainability, Universities
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Herro, Danielle; Quigley, Cassie; Andrews, Jessica; Delacruz, Girlie – International Journal of STEM Education, 2017
Background: The shortage of skilled workers choosing STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math) careers in the USA and worldwide has fueled a movement towards STEAM, in which the "A" addresses the arts and humanities. STEAM education has been proposed as a way to offer relevant problems to solve while drawing on creative and…
Descriptors: STEM Education, Art Education, Humanities, Elementary Secondary Education
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Khanam, Wahidun N.; Kalman, Calvin S. – Canadian Journal for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning, 2017
It has been argued that for novice students to acquire a full understanding of scientific texts, they also need to pursue a recurrent construction of their comprehension of scientific concepts. The course dossier method has students examine concepts in multiple passes: (a) through reflective writing on text before it is considered in the…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Teaching Methods, Science Education, Physics
Colorado State Dept. of Education, Denver. Office of Federal Relations and Instructional Services. – 1986
Responding to the Colorado State Board of Education's request for recommendations concerning the need to improve humanities instruction and its relationship to the development of higher-order thinking skills, this task force report specifies a scope for humanities teaching; defines higher-order thinking skills as the ability to judge information,…
Descriptors: Critical Thinking, Decision Making, Elementary Secondary Education, Humanities