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Fitzgerald, Miranda S.; Palincsar, Annemarie Sullivan – Reading & Writing Quarterly, 2017
The goals for engaging students in peer learning range from positioning students as knowledgeable others to promoting social-emotional learning goals to providing contexts in which students can articulate and compare their thinking to supporting opportunities to cogenerate solutions to complex problems. There are a number of complexities…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Educational Technology, Technology Uses in Education, Grade 6
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Clidas, Jeanne – Science and Children, 2010
Students are using the tools of scientists when keeping a science notebook. They are also keeping track of their thinking and the changes to their original ideas. To bring students' existing ideas out for examination, the author implemented a "quick-write," which entails asking an open-ended question and having the students write all they know in…
Descriptors: Laboratories, Science Instruction, Writing Assignments, Cooperative Learning
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Trice, John-Nathan; Wilmes, Barbara Johnson – Administrative Issues Journal: Education, Practice, and Research, 2011
Universities and colleges are experiencing increasing challenges of educating millennial students, individuals who lack motivation and tenacity to engage in the learning process. Ideally, university students have read materials and are prepared to engage in collegial interaction. The purpose of this study was to determine whether university…
Descriptors: Reading Motivation, Student Motivation, Study Habits, Reading Strategies
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Li, Linda Y. – Journal of University Teaching and Learning Practice, 2007
Focused freewriting, broadly defined as writing without stopping and editing about a specific topic, has been viewed and used as a powerful tool for developing student writing in a wide spectrum of educational contexts. This study aimed to further explore the use of focused freewriting in the context of promoting students' academic skills…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, College Freshmen, Freshman Composition, Academic Discourse