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Ahiskali, Eylem Ezgi; Maltepe, Saadet – Journal of Pedagogical Research, 2023
This study aims to determine the effect of creative writing activities based on narrative expression on preservice teachers' ability to create narrative texts. The research was structured with a mixed research method in which qualitative and quantitative research methods were used together. Quantitatively, the study employed a pre-test post-test…
Descriptors: Creative Writing, Writing Assignments, Preservice Teachers, Narration
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Freitas, Kripa – Journal of Economic Education, 2023
Evidence suggests that active engagement with material as it is being taught improves learning. In-class multiple choice questions are a common way to introduce active learning. Low-stakes writing is another. The author of this article provides evidence that using a content-based low-stakes writing prompt with immediate group feedback during the…
Descriptors: Writing Assignments, Active Learning, Feedback (Response), Instructional Effectiveness
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Yin Deng; Pragasit Sitthitikul – rEFLections, 2025
While extensive research exists on peer feedback and its effects on writing, there are few experimental studies that rigorously investigate the effects of guided dialogic peer feedback on students' argumentative writing performance. This study, adopting a mixed-methods approach, examined the influence of guided dialogic peer feedback within a…
Descriptors: Blended Learning, Teaching Methods, English (Second Language), Second Language Instruction
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Lisa Otto – Africa Education Review, 2024
ChatGPT has been on the lips and minds of academics and students alike since the launch of the generative technology in November 2022. Students have made use of it and academic institutions have debated how to respond to its use, variously either banning it outright or arguing that there should be a place for such technologies in our teaching and…
Descriptors: Artificial Intelligence, Computer Software, Technology Integration, Teaching Methods
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Sotardi, Valerie; Dutton, Hilary – Assessment & Evaluation in Higher Education, 2022
In this study, we sought to understand assessment-related attitudes and authentic experiences of evaluation anxiety with a sample of first-year university students. We focused on identifying: (a) why students had reported high levels of anxiety on a recent, grade-bearing assessment, and (b) how their attitudes toward assessment type and weighting…
Descriptors: College Freshmen, Student Experience, Anxiety, Student Attitudes
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Shengji Li; Huma Akram – SAGE Open, 2024
Effective communication and academic writing in English hinge on a solid grasp of grammar, with pronouns representing a pivotal aspect. However, non-native, particularly English as a second language (ESL) students, often find difficulties in employing pronouns effectively, especially in reference to their antecedents within sentences. The current…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, English (Second Language), Writing (Composition), Writing Evaluation
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Heart, Tsipi; Finklestein, Elad; Cohen, Menashe – Quality Assurance in Education: An International Perspective, 2022
Purpose: The purpose of this study is to assess students' perceptions of four teaching and learning (T&L) methods used in a blended learning Contract Law course, namely, frontal, written assignments, simulations and online asynchronous T&L. Design/methodology/approach: Law students (n = 417) filled in an anonymous questionnaire on their…
Descriptors: Law Students, Legal Education (Professions), Contracts, Blended Learning
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Van Heerden, Martina – Assessment & Evaluation in Higher Education, 2020
Research has shown that written feedback is important for student learning and development. However, the messages embedded in feedback may lead to students being misled about what they need to learn or how they need to develop. This article reports on a small-scale investigation into the messages embedded in feedback. Legitimation Code Theory was…
Descriptors: Feedback (Response), Instructional Effectiveness, Content Analysis, College Freshmen
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Susilana, Rudi; Pribadi, Benny Agus – World Journal on Educational Technology: Current Issues, 2021
The purpose of the present study was to elaborate the effect of providing the constructive feedback to open and distant students who enrolled in the online learning program. The participants were 30 students who studied in eight sessions of the online course. They had to discuss course content in available chat forum of the Learning LMS and…
Descriptors: Feedback (Response), Electronic Learning, Online Courses, Distance Education
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McLean, Neil; Price, Linda – Higher Education: The International Journal of Higher Education Research, 2019
Studies into the efficacy of teacher development courses for early career academics point to graduates conceiving of their teaching in increasingly complex and student-focussed ways. These studies have used pre- and post-testing of conceptions of teaching to identify this finding. However, these studies do not identify what aspects of these…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, College Faculty, Reflection, Logical Thinking
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Davis, Kirsten A.; Mogg, William A.; Callaghan, David P.; Birkett, Greg R.; Knight, David B.; O'Brien, Katherine R. – European Journal of Engineering Education, 2021
In this paper, we introduce 'Concept Questions,' a weekly writing assignment that has been incorporated into multiple upper-level engineering courses at a single university with the intent of enhancing students' conceptual understanding of the course content. To explore the influence of this activity on students in these courses, we compared…
Descriptors: Questioning Techniques, Writing Assignments, Course Content, Concept Formation
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Pribadi, Benny Agus; Susilana, Rudi – European Journal of Educational Research, 2021
The study is intended to expose mind mapping used as strategy for learning which is able to assist students to write their writing assignments. Thirty students who registered in the Teacher Qualification Improvement Program of Universitas Terbuka (UT) was involved as the participants in this present study. The participants had to follow the…
Descriptors: Concept Mapping, Teaching Methods, Instructional Effectiveness, Learning Strategies
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Chompurach, Wichuta – English Language Teaching, 2021
The present study aims to investigate how Thai EFL university students use Google Translate (GT) in English writing, how they post-edit (PE) its outputs, and how they view GT use in English writing. The participants were 15 third-year non-English major students from three universities in Thailand. The data collection tools were an interview and…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Instructional Effectiveness
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Al-Jarf, Reima – Journal on English Language Teaching, 2021
Many EFL teachers spend a lot of time marking students' written assignments and correcting their spelling, grammatical, punctuation, organization and idea generation errors in detail. The more mistakes students make the more meticulously they mark and correct mistakes. Despite meticulous error correction, students continue to make the same…
Descriptors: Error Correction, Writing Instruction, Writing Evaluation, Second Language Learning
Al-Jarf, Reima – Online Submission, 2021
Many EFL students have difficulty generating ideas for writing topics. Writing instructors tend to select topics that are too abstract, repetitive, uninteresting, vague, too broad or unfamiliar. To help students generate ideas for writing topics, the present study suggests the integration of participation goals in writing instruction.…
Descriptors: Student Participation, Undergraduate Students, Goal Orientation, Writing Skills
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