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Michael W. Asher; Judith M. Harackiewicz; Patrick N. Beymer; Cameron A. Hecht; Liana B. Lamont; Nicole M. Else-Quest; Stacy J. Priniski; Dustin B. Thoman; Janet S. Hyde; Jessi L. Smith – Grantee Submission, 2023
We tested the long-term effects of a utility-value intervention administered in a gateway chemistry course, with the goal of promoting persistence and diversity in STEM. In a randomized controlled trial (N = 2,505), students wrote three essays about course content and its personal relevance or three control essays. The intervention significantly…
Descriptors: Intervention, Academic Persistence, Diversity, STEM Education
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Ott, Jim E. – New Directions for Adult and Continuing Education, 2020
Abstract Educators are encouraged to engage military veterans enrolling in college in the use of "expressive writing" and related assignments as curriculum interventions to assist these student veterans in their transition from military to civilian life. This article describes semester-long studies conducted in 2015, 2016, and 2017 in…
Descriptors: Creative Writing, Veterans, College Students, Veterans Education
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Pilotti, Maura A. E.; Elmoussa, Omar – Cogent Education, 2022
The present research examined the extent to which the initial approach to a research-writing course by STEM and non-STEM second-language learners may entail the contribution of different dispositions to course performance and ultimately be responsible for dissimilar outcomes. Individual differences in dispositions and behavior were assessed during…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Student Research, Writing (Composition), STEM Education
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Curry, Kevin W., Jr.; Spencer, Dan; Pesout, Ondra; Pigford, Kimberly – Journal of Research in Science Teaching, 2020
Science writing, such as lab reports, allows students to form a meaningful understanding of scientific concepts. However, students often view scientific writing as unimportant and utilize surface level approaches when completing writing assignments. The current study implemented three experimental interventions (directly-communicated,…
Descriptors: Biology, Science Instruction, Science Laboratories, Writing (Composition)
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Khoo, Elaine; Huo, Xiangying – Journal of Teaching and Learning, 2022
International students with low academic English proficiency face challenges with reading their course materials and writing assignments. Their challenges are exacerbated during remote learning, as they remain in their home countries, immersed in their home languages, which may be quite distant from academic English. To investigate the effects of…
Descriptors: Foreign Students, English for Academic Purposes, Second Language Instruction, Second Language Learning
Rosenzweig, Emily Q.; Harackiewicz, Judith M.; Priniski, Stacy J.; Hecht, Cameron A.; Canning, Elizabeth A.; Tibbetts, Yoi; Hyde, Janet S. – Grantee Submission, 2018
Utility-value interventions, in which students are asked to make connections between course material and their lives, are useful for improving students' academic outcomes in science courses. These interventions are thought to be successful in part because the intervention activities afford students autonomy while they complete them, but no…
Descriptors: Intervention, Correlation, Student Attitudes, Decision Making
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Bou Ayash, Nancy – Composition Forum, 2020
This article affords insights into the interdependence between writing and critical translation to inform implementations of antiracist and translingual writing pedagogies. Promoting linguistic and social justice for multilingual writers, it presents a writing assignment design that focuses on critical translation across asymmetrical power…
Descriptors: Translation, Multilingualism, Correlation, Writing (Composition)
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Doolan, Stephen M.; Fitzsimmons-Doolan, Shannon – TESOL Journal, 2016
Student success in higher education often involves the effective integration of source texts into students' writing (Horowitz, 1986); therefore, advanced second language (L2) students are particularly well served by effective reading-to-write instruction. Teaching L2 students to write from sources is challenging because of several issues,…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Advanced Students, Reading Instruction
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McKevitt, Conor Thomas – Journal of University Teaching and Learning Practice, 2016
Assessment is one of the most important elements of student life and significantly shapes their learning. Consequently, tutors need to ensure that student awareness regarding assessment is promoted. Students should get the opportunity to practise assessing work and receive tutor feedback so that they might improve on both the work and their…
Descriptors: Student Evaluation, Self Evaluation (Individuals), Tutors, Feedback (Response)
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Thouësny, Sylvie – Research-publishing.net, 2013
Computer and Internet literacy is often taken for granted in the case of young adults born into the digital world; it is generally assumed that they can all use technology effectively. However, as mentioned by Fowley (2011), "it is easy to forget that in Ireland for example, many of the young people whom we routinely call digital natives have…
Descriptors: Internet, Web Based Instruction, Second Language Learning, French
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Kalman, Calvin S.; Sobhanzadeh, Mandana; Thompson, Robert; Ibrahim, Ahmed; Wang, Xihui – Physical Review Special Topics - Physics Education Research, 2015
This study was based on the hypothesis that students' epistemological beliefs could become more expertlike with a combination of appropriate instructional activities: (i) preclass reading with metacognitive reflection, and (ii) in-class active learning that produces cognitive dissonance. This hypothesis was tested through a five-year study…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, College Students, Intervention, Attitude Change
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Duijnhouwer, Hendrien; Prins, Frans J.; Stokking, Karel M. – Educational Research and Evaluation, 2010
The effects of progress feedback on university students' writing mastery goal, self-efficacy beliefs, and writing performance were examined in this experiment. Students in the experimental condition (n = 42) received progress feedback on their writing assignment, whereas students in the control condition (n = 44) received feedback without progress…
Descriptors: Feedback (Response), Writing Assignments, Self Efficacy, Student Motivation