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Curtis, Guy J.; McNeill, Margot; Slade, Christine; Tremayne, Kell; Harper, Rowena; Rundle, Kiata; Greenaway, Ruth – Studies in Higher Education, 2022
The highest estimates of the prevalence of commercial contract cheating in Australia come from self-report surveys, which suggest that around 2% of students engage in commercial contract cheating during their higher education studies. However, self-report surveys are limited in that participants under-report socially-undesirable behaviours. In…
Descriptors: Measurement Techniques, Incidence, Cheating, Contracts
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Kim, Alice S. N.; Nairn, Brian C.; Popovic, Celia; Carozza, Linda; Balidio, Elaine C. – Canadian Journal for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning, 2020
Past research on face-to-face instructional delivery demonstrates that students' participation is positively related to their achievement in a course (Rocca, 2010), and that participation mediates the relation between attendance and achievement (Kim et al., 2019). Given that blended learning is on the rise in higher education (Johnson et al.,…
Descriptors: Student Participation, Predictor Variables, Blended Learning, General Education
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Junker, Christine R.; Jacquemin, Stephen J. – College Teaching, 2017
Scholars have suggested that reading literature can foster empathy. However, learning empathy through literature in the classroom is understudied. The primary objective of this study was to assess whether affective and cognitive empathy, as demonstrated in student writing, relates to textual attributes, the style of writing prompt, student writing…
Descriptors: Empathy, Literature, College Students, Writing (Composition)
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Sanjaya, I. Nyoman Suka; Sitawati, Anak Agung Raka – TEFLIN Journal: A publication on the teaching and learning of English, 2017
The present study was aimed at examining whether grammatical accuracy and gender were significant predictors of the use of request strategy (direct or indirect). Participants were 39 seventh semester students (29 males and 10 females) majoring in an International Business Management program at a public higher education institution in Bali. Their…
Descriptors: Grammar, Accuracy, Gender Differences, Interlanguage
Crossley, Scott A.; Kyle, Kristopher; McNamara, Danielle S. – Grantee Submission, 2016
An important topic in writing research has been the use of cohesive features. Much of this research has focused on local and text cohesion. The few studies that have studied global cohesion have been restricted to first language writing. This study investigates the development of local, global, and text cohesion in the writing of 57 language (L2)…
Descriptors: Writing (Composition), Essays, Writing Assignments, Second Language Learning
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Peled, Yehuda; Sarid, Miriam – Interactive Technology and Smart Education, 2010
Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to explore the nature of multi-drafting among college students according to demographic characteristics and measure its impact on students' achievements. Design/methodology/approach: The research was conducted in two stages. First, a preliminary research based on data from the Highlearn web-based content…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Feedback (Response), Marital Status, Student Attitudes