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Brielle Campos – Practitioner to Practitioner, 2025
The purpose of this article is to present the author's anecdotal findings from using a grade defense assignment as a supplemental aspect of an ePortfolio assignment. This is not a full research study, but the author did a few semesters of testing with the assignment before implementing the grade defense in all sections of the University Seminar…
Descriptors: Assignments, Portfolio Assessment, Grades (Scholastic), Seminars
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Samantha Applin – Teaching Sociology, 2024
Students hold foundational assumptions that interact with information they are introduced to in college. By learning to identify, assess, and restructure these foundational ideas, students' ability to acquire topical knowledge improves. This article presents a format for teaching students how to evaluate their beliefs through four levels of…
Descriptors: Critical Thinking, Thinking Skills, Individual Development, Assignments
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Imre Csaszar; Jennifer R. Curry – Research Issues in Contemporary Education, 2024
Students have gravitated toward the convenience of artificial intelligence (AI) to generate text, music, and for entertainment. Faculty are also emerging as AI consumers. Given that faculty workloads have become increasingly difficult to manage, AI holds promise for assisting with teaching and research. In this article, a pedagogical case study is…
Descriptors: Artificial Intelligence, Assignments, Critical Thinking, Ethics
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Greenleaf, Justin; Kniffin, Lori; Klaus, Kaley; Rust, Megan – Journal of Leadership Education, 2023
Mind mapping can be a pedagogical tool that helps students brainstorm how to organize information in a way that incorporates creative and active learning, as well as critical thinking. In this article, we describe the application of using mind maps in an undergraduate course focused on teaching leadership theory as an effort to help students think…
Descriptors: Leadership, Holistic Approach, Cognitive Mapping, Leadership Training
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Amy Ray; Julie Herron – School Science and Mathematics, 2024
In our mathematics methods courses for elementary preservice teachers, we work to uncover and confront students' understandings as well as misconceptions about important mathematical topics. Karp and colleagues' ("Teaching Children Mathematics", 21(1), 18-25) "13 Rules That Expire" article has been a useful resource for us to…
Descriptors: Mathematics Instruction, Misconceptions, Elementary School Teachers, Methods Courses
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Carmen Saunders-Russell – Journal on Excellence in College Teaching, 2023
The author explains how using creative assignments reinforces invention, problem-solving, and critical thinking skills in undergraduate health administration students. While several studies look at the use of creative assignments to help students develop these skills, few studies exist on their use in health administration. In addition, the use of…
Descriptors: Creativity, Assignments, Innovation, Problem Solving
Jennifer Ortega – ProQuest LLC, 2022
This study examined transformative sustainability learning (TSL) by determining the occurrence of perspective transformation (PT) regarding sustainability in sustainability-focused courses offered at a public university. 131 students in two upper-division general education courses with a sustainability-focused course designation were included in…
Descriptors: Transformative Learning, Sustainability, Higher Education, Undergraduate Students
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Paul A. E. Piunno; Anna Shahmuradyan – Journal of Chemical Education, 2024
A science, technology, society, and environmental (STSE) impact assignment framework was developed that bridges the gap between analytical chemistry education and broader societal and environmental contexts. Over the course of [approximately]8 weeks, students were provided with the opportunity to engage in a self-directed learning opportunity to…
Descriptors: Science Education, Environmental Education, Social Influences, Chemistry
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Nguyen Thi Thanh Tam; Tran Ngoc Tien – rEFLections, 2024
Promoting critical thinking (CT) skills has largely attracted the concern of numerous relevant stakeholders, including teachers, students, and policymakers, with the assumption that CT is a vitally learned skill needed by graduates. This study explores the extent of classroom-based assessment strategies used to promote the CT ability of…
Descriptors: Critical Thinking, Student Evaluation, Evaluation Methods, Higher Education
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Hunter, Rebecca A.; Kovarik, Michelle L. – Journal of Chemical Education, 2022
Students develop process skills through repeated practice of data interpretation, problem solving, and critical thinking. The primary literature provides a rich source of data and application problems to engage students in this practice within the context of chemistry content knowledge. However, most existing classroom activities based on the…
Descriptors: Science Process Skills, Problem Solving, Critical Thinking, Skill Development
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Tulis, Maria – Psychology Learning and Teaching, 2022
This experimental field study (pre-post-follow-up design) with 184 student teachers examined the effectiveness of an intervention to reduce misconceptions about psychology within an introductory psychology course. For this purpose, over the course's one-semester duration, all students attended six lectures and, in addition, worked individually on…
Descriptors: Introductory Courses, Psychology, Misconceptions, Preservice Teachers
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Morgan M. Bryant; Jen Riley – Marketing Education Review, 2024
Student engagement is a growing challenge within higher education, especially as technology continues to evolve and competition for attention rises. As a business discipline, many marketing students struggle to connect with the theory presented in the classroom and seek interactive, experiential learning opportunities. The authors created the…
Descriptors: Learner Engagement, Marketing, Music, Learning Activities
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Tyler B. Becker; Vanessa N. Cardino; James Lucas; Jenifer I. Fenton – Advances in Physiology Education, 2024
Critical thinking is a common and important learning outcome in college curricula. Case-based and problem-based learning can be used to assess and foster critical thinking skills. HNF 250--Contemporary Issues in Human Nutrition is a critical thinking course developed during the redesign of a nutritional sciences major program. Course assignments…
Descriptors: Critical Thinking, Nutrition, Problem Based Learning, Course Content
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Anton O. Tolman; Benjamin A. Johnson – Journal on Excellence in College Teaching, 2025
Metacognition is a key to effective learning, foundational to critical thinking and fostering scholarly and professional identity. Yet many faculty are uncertain how to integrate metacognitive skill development into classes. This article describes two metacognitive instruments, the TTM-LS and the LSSA, that are short, simple to use, and discipline…
Descriptors: Metacognition, Critical Thinking, Skill Development, Student Responsibility
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Daradoumis, Thanasis; Marquès Puig, Joan Manuel; Arguedas, Marta; Calvet Liñan, Laura – Educational Technology Research and Development, 2021
Recent research has shown a great interest in supporting self-regulated learning (SRL) strategies in online learning. However, there is hardly any study that has investigated how students' self-regulation of behavior could be promoted in online environments for programming learning and assessment, despite the proliferation of automated programming…
Descriptors: Self Management, Student Behavior, Online Courses, Programming
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