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Lin, Alex R.; Lawrence, Joshua F.; Snow, Catherine E.; Taylor, Karen S. – Theory and Research in Social Education, 2016
Communicative self-efficacy serves as an important link between discussing controversial issues and civic engagement because confidence in one's discourse skills is important to managing conflicting perspectives and developing solutions to community-based problems. Freely available to schools, "Word Generation" is a cross-content…
Descriptors: Self Efficacy, Communication Skills, Content Area Reading, Literacy Education
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Dufresne, Robert J.; And Others – Journal of Computing in Higher Education, 1996
College physics teachers describe their experience using a computer-based classroom communication system that facilitates presentation of questions for small-group work, collection of student answers, and display of histograms showing how the class answered, all feeding into classwide discussions. The technique engages students in active learning…
Descriptors: Active Learning, Classroom Communication, College Instruction, College Science