NotesFAQContact Us
Collection
Advanced
Search Tips
Publication Date
In 20250
Since 20240
Since 2021 (last 5 years)0
Since 2016 (last 10 years)4
Since 2006 (last 20 years)6
Audience
Laws, Policies, & Programs
Assessments and Surveys
Personal Attributes…1
What Works Clearinghouse Rating
Showing 1 to 15 of 16 results Save | Export
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
Direct linkDirect link
Newton, Philip – Assessment & Evaluation in Higher Education, 2016
Establishing a positive, proactive approach to issues such as plagiarism requires that students are equipped with the skills and experience to act with integrity, and that educators are fully aware of the attitudes and ability of students, particularly when they start university. This project used a questionnaire-based methodology to probe the…
Descriptors: Integrity, Higher Education, Student Attitudes, Undergraduate Students
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
PDF on ERIC Download full text
Kiss, Gabor – Turkish Online Journal of Educational Technology - TOJET, 2016
The teachers use different presentation tools in Higher Education to make the presentation enjoyable for the students. I used MS Power Point or Prezi in my presentations in two different groups of the freshmen students at the University. The aim of this research was an analysis of the paper results in two groups of students to reveal the influence…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Educational Technology, Technology Uses in Education, Computer Software
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
PDF on ERIC Download full text
Jiang, Dongmei – International Journal of Higher Education, 2016
This study investigated the effect of cooperative learning on writing anxiety alleviation through a pre-test/post-test assessment. 120 EFL learners from a Chinese polytechnic institute were assigned into two groups: one experimental (cooperative writing) and the other comparison (solitary writing). Results revealed that cooperative learning…
Descriptors: Writing Apprehension, Cooperative Learning, Foreign Countries, English (Second Language)
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
Direct linkDirect link
Song, Geraldine; Hoon, Lee Hwee; Alvin, Leong Ping – RELC Journal: A Journal of Language Teaching and Research, 2017
Much research work on teacher feedback has concentrated on the perceptions of students and teachers on feedback, but few studies have addressed the extent to which students respond to their teachers' written feedback, particularly at the tertiary level. This study analysed the extent to which students made appropriate revisions based on the…
Descriptors: Student Attitudes, Feedback (Response), Higher Education, Teacher Student Relationship
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
Direct linkDirect link
Trumpower, David L. – Mathematical Thinking and Learning: An International Journal, 2013
Students' informal inferential reasoning (IIR) is often inconsistent with the normative logic underlying formal statistical methods such as Analysis of Variance (ANOVA), even after instruction. In two experiments reported here, student's IIR was assessed using an intuitive ANOVA task at the beginning and end of a statistics course. In both…
Descriptors: Statistical Analysis, Intuition, Inferences, Thinking Skills
Winter, Gaye Bush – ProQuest LLC, 2010
The purpose of this study was to compare scores on writing assignments from traditional, fully online courses in technical writing to pilot, hybrid courses at a southern university. A total of 232 students' assignments were compared in this study. All writing assignments were scored by six trained instructors of English using the same five point…
Descriptors: Majors (Students), Writing Assignments, Technical Writing, Online Courses
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
Barker, Randolph T.; Pearce, C. Glenn – Journal of Educational Computing Research, 1995
Analyzed 17 personal attributes of 160 undergraduate students who wrote reports on a computer or by hand, and compared differences in the quality of computer and handwritten reports with each student's personal attributes. Concludes that some attributes do relate to computer writing quality. (JMV)
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Handwriting, Higher Education, Personality Traits
Kirsh, Steven J. – 1998
Writing assignments involving newspaper portfolios or analyzing the content of a film (animated or live action) are interesting because they help students become involved with course content and improve students' critical thinking. A study examined writing assignments of these types from 21 students taking two sections of a course on child…
Descriptors: Animation, Child Development, Comparative Analysis, Critical Thinking
Adler-Kassner, Linda; Gillen, Shawn – 1993
Two composition instructors assigned literacy autobiographies to their students, in the same way the instructors had received such assignments when they were students in a graduate seminar on literacy. One instructor taught at the University of Minnesota's General College (an open admission college), and the other instructor taught in the…
Descriptors: Academic Discourse, Autobiographies, Comparative Analysis, Higher Education
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
Flanders, Marianne; And Others – Teaching English in the Two-Year College, 1995
Contains six short descriptions of lesson plans that teachers have found effective in a range of areas: (1) first day confidence building; (2) innovative lessons in punctuation; (3) approaches to teaching the comparison/contrast papers; (4) writing about possible careers; (5) student presentations designed to make literature come alive; (6)…
Descriptors: Career Awareness, Career Planning, Comparative Analysis, Grammar
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
Dong, Yu Ren – Teaching English in the Two-Year College, 1999
Investigates English-as-a-Second-Language (ESL) students' native literacy-learning experiences, via written learning autobiographies of 26 students from at least eight different countries. Discusses writing instruction in students' native languages; most satisfying writing assessment in their native languages; and differences between writing in…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Educational Experience, English (Second Language), Higher Education
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
Perotti, Valerie S.; Bridges, Carl Remus – Bulletin of the Association for Business Communication, 1993
Examines differences among five assignments written by both Hong Kong and United States business communication students, focusing on reader orientation, writing objective, organization, grammar, syntax, usage, and format. Finds distinct differences between students of the different cultures using the same language and performing similar…
Descriptors: Business Correspondence, Comparative Analysis, Cultural Differences, Foreign Countries
Cooper, Charles R. – 1990
A study used comparison-group methods to examine the effectiveness of dialogic journal writing in a content area classroom. Subjects were students in a sophomore-level course in Chinese literature at the University of California, San Diego. Students were divided into three comparison groups each of which was further divided into sections. Four…
Descriptors: College Instruction, Comparative Analysis, Content Area Writing, Dialog Journals
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
Reed, W. Michael; Vandett, Nancy M. – Research & Teaching in Developmental Education, 1988
Compares the quality and syntactic complexity of 2 types of essays written by 44 college freshmen in a basic writing course. Essays dealing with group-phenomenon events (intensification) had more words per clause, but received lower quality scores than essays dealing with individually experienced events (initiation). (PAA)
Descriptors: Basic Writing, College Students, Comparative Analysis, Discourse Analysis
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
Holmes, Colette; And Others – Research Strategies, 1993
Describes an expository writing course designed to teach students at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (New York) how to analyze the language and culture of professional literature. The roles of writing instructors and librarians are explained for an assignment that involves comparing 2 issues of the same journal--current and 20-years-old. (LRW)
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Course Content, Course Evaluation, Evaluation Methods
Previous Page | Next Page ยป
Pages: 1  |  2