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Greene Nolan, Hillary; Vang, Mai Chou – Digital Promise, 2023
Providing feedback to students in a sustainable way represents a perennial challenge for secondary teachers of writing. Employing artificial intelligence (AI) tools to give students personalized and immediate feedback holds great promise. Project Topeka offered middle school teachers pre-curated teaching materials, foundational texts and videos,…
Descriptors: Middle School Students, Grade 7, Grade 8, Predictor Variables
Schmidt-McCormack, Jennifer A.; Judge, Jessyca A.; Spahr, Kellie; Yang, Ellen; Pugh, Raymond; Karlin, Ashley; Sattar, Atia; Thompson, Barry C.; Gere, Anne Ruggles; Shultz, Ginger V. – Chemistry Education Research and Practice, 2019
Acid-base chemistry is a foundational topic that is taught in courses across the chemistry curriculum. Students often have difficulty distinguishing between the different theories of acid-base chemistry--Brønsted-Lowry and Lewis acid-base chemistry--and applying these two definitions correctly in unfamiliar scenarios. To help students learn these…
Descriptors: Organic Chemistry, Science Education, Writing Assignments, Scientific Concepts
Daniel, Frances; Gaze, Catherine M.; Braasch, Jason L. G. – Teaching of Psychology, 2015
We examined how writing cover letters to the instructor influenced final papers in research methods courses. After receiving instructor feedback on drafts of each section of an American Psychological Association style research paper throughout the semester, students in two classes wrote cover letters to the instructor explaining how the instructor…
Descriptors: Research Methodology, Methods Courses, Feedback (Response), Writing Improvement
Grami, G. M. A.; Alkazemi, B. Y. – Journal of Computer Assisted Learning, 2016
Writing correct English sentences can be challenging. Furthermore, writing correct formulaic sequences can be especially difficult because accepted combinations do not follow clear rules governing which words appear together in a sequence. One solution is to provide examples of correct usage accompanied by statistical feedback from web-based…
Descriptors: Sentences, Writing Skills, Feedback (Response), English (Second Language)
Ali, Amira Desouky – English Language Teaching, 2016
This mixed-methods research was carried out to investigate the effect of screencast video feedback on the writing of freshmen, studying academic writing course at a university in Egypt, and explore their perception towards receiving screencast feedback. Two classes of 63 students were chosen to participate in this study and were assigned into two…
Descriptors: Mixed Methods Research, College Freshmen, Feedback (Response), Video Technology
Khanlarzadeh, Mobin; Nemati, Majid – Iranian Journal of Language Teaching Research, 2016
The effectiveness of written corrective feedback (WCF) in the improvement of language learners' grammatical accuracy has been a topic of interest in SLA studies for the past couple of decades. The present study reports the findings of a three-month study investigating the effect of direct unfocused WCF on the grammatical accuracy of elementary…
Descriptors: Grammar, Control Groups, Pretests Posttests, Experimental Groups
Petko, Dominik; Egger, Nives; Cantieni, Andrea – Journal of Digital Learning in Teacher Education, 2017
The study examines the use of weblogs in teacher education internships and its impact on student stress levels, self-efficacy, and reflective abilities. One hundred and seventy-six student teachers were randomly assigned to five groups. Four groups used weblogs (a) with emotion-focused or with problem-focused writing assignments in combination (b)…
Descriptors: Student Journals, Electronic Journals, Preservice Teacher Education, Student Teachers
Farshi, Sina Soltanabadi; Safa, Saeedeh Khalili – Advances in Language and Literary Studies, 2015
The purpose of this study was to compare the effects of two types of corrective feedback on EFL learners' writing skill. Thirty five advanced learners in three groups participated in this study. Structures of written texts were taught in all three classes during fourteen sessions of treatment; and each session, a related topic was given and the…
Descriptors: Error Correction, Feedback (Response), Control Groups, Comparative Analysis
Hoogeveen, Mariëtte; van Gelderen, Amos – Elementary School Journal, 2015
This study examined whether instruction in genre knowledge enriches students' feedback on each other's writing, resulting in better writing quality. In total 140 sixth-grade students (age 11-13) participated in the study. Two approaches to peer response with additional instruction were compared. In one condition, students were taught specific…
Descriptors: Literary Genres, Writing Instruction, Peer Evaluation, Feedback (Response)
Atashgahi, Bahareh Molazem – Advances in Language and Literary Studies, 2014
This study aimed to show whether administering a battery of time-series diagnostic tests (screening) has any impact on Iranian EFL learners' writing ability. The study was conducted on the intermediate EFL learners at Islamic Azad University North Tehran branch. The researcher administered a homogenizing test in order to exclude the exceptional…
Descriptors: Diagnostic Tests, Time, English (Second Language), Second Language Instruction
Karsak, H. Gulhan Orhan; Fer, Seval; Orhan, Feza – Educational Technology & Society, 2014
Academic writing, whether individual or cooperative, is an essential skill for today's graduates. However, motivating and helping students to learn to write effectively, either in cooperative or individual scenarios, poses many challenges, many of which can be overcome by technical means. The aim of this study is to investigate the effect of using…
Descriptors: Web Sites, Diaries, Writing (Composition), Writing Skills
Ramirez, Helen; Jones, Don – Administrative Issues Journal: Education, Practice, and Research, 2013
This study examined the effectiveness of teaching methods used with a second language reading and writing unit. This investigation addressed discrepancies between assessment scores in the four communicative language skill areas of students in beginning-level Spanish classes at a suburban middle school. Accordingly, the purpose of this study was to…
Descriptors: Reading Strategies, Writing Processes, Second Language Learning, Academic Achievement
Gielen, Sarah; Tops, Lies; Dochy, Filip; Onghena, Patrick; Smeets, Stijn – British Educational Research Journal, 2010
This study examines whether peer feedback can be a substitute for teacher feedback and which measures can be taken to improve its effectiveness. A pre-test post-test control group design examined the long-term learning effects of individual peer feedback and of collective teacher feedback on writing assignments in secondary education. Moreover, it…
Descriptors: Feedback (Response), Control Groups, Writing Assignments, Comparative Analysis
Stewart, Tracie L.; Myers, Ashley C.; Culley, Marci R. – Teaching of Psychology, 2010
We assessed the benefits of employing microthemes--short in-class writing assignments designed to facilitate active learning--as pedagogical tools in psychology courses. Students in target course sections completed 10 in-class microthemes during a semester. We designed the microthemes to serve as active learning assignments that would enhance…
Descriptors: Feedback (Response), Writing Assignments, Active Learning, Psychology
Rock, JoAnn Leah – ETS Research Report Series, 2007
In this study, a hierarchical linear model (HLM) was used within a cluster random assignment design to test the impact of "Criterion"? on students' writing skill when "Criterion" was used as a supplementary instructional tool in ninth grade English classrooms over a 4 week period. The study was conducted in three states:…
Descriptors: Hierarchical Linear Modeling, Teaching Methods, Grade 9, English Instruction