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Hardy, Sarah Madsen; Kordonowy, Gwen; Liss, Ken – Composition Forum, 2022
This study explores the relationship between the dispositions toward research that writing teachers convey through their assignments and those that their students express in their reflective writing. We applied the term "problem-exploring" to a set of dispositions described by the ACRL Framework and coded each clause of instructor…
Descriptors: Writing Assignments, College Freshmen, Freshman Composition, Student Research
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Schieber, Danica L.; Robles, Vincent D. – Business and Professional Communication Quarterly, 2019
This study describes how reflections allowed students to express their audience awareness as they wrote a multiaudience messages packet. We present an analysis of 27 reflections in which students described their experience when responding to the various audiences. Students' reflective depth varied, though deeper reflections demonstrate…
Descriptors: Reflection, Audience Awareness, Business Communication, Negative Attitudes
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Tripp, Brie; Shortlidge, Erin E. – CBE - Life Sciences Education, 2020
In a world of burgeoning societal issues, future scientists must be equipped to work interdisciplinarily to address real-world problems. To train undergraduate students toward this end, practitioners must also have quality assessment tools to measure students' ability to think within an interdisciplinary system. There is, however, a dearth of…
Descriptors: Data Collection, Interdisciplinary Approach, Scoring Rubrics, Science and Society
Richardson, Hannah – Online Submission, 2017
This research explores solutions and challenges pertaining to a child's development of self-efficacy. After working with fifth grade students in a public education setting, Inoticed an increased reliance on teachers for both creative and procedural directions. This paper explores research of educators who examine the internal and external factors…
Descriptors: Self Efficacy, Self Management, Grade 5, Check Lists
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Sakamoto, Mitsuyo – IAFOR Journal of Language Learning, 2017
According to Swain, Kinnear, & Steinman (2011), we use a language with others as a form of shared cognition, and in the process we scaffold each other. This action research investigates how students' online written output affects each other's writing. One thousand twenty online entries written by 21 Japanese university sophomore English majors…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Interaction, Teaching Methods, College Students
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Rich, Jennifer; Miller, Daisy; DeTora, Lisa – Across the Disciplines, 2011
Writing plays an integral role in any disciplinary course setting. In the sciences, WAC and WID initiatives primarily focus on using writing to deepen student understanding of scientific concepts. Scholars, however, have paid less attention to how writing may facilitate an understanding of the link between concepts and their quantitative…
Descriptors: Personal Narratives, Cognitive Processes, Problem Solving, Writing Assignments
Goff-Kfouri, Carol Ann – 2001
Research has shown that although university instructors of English as a Second Language are aware of the benefits that active learning can bring the student, teacher-centered, traditional lecture method classes are still the norm. Resistance to change is due in part to large class sizes, limited instruction hours, and the perception that proactive…
Descriptors: Active Learning, Business Communication, Business English, Case Studies