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Cynthia Puranik; Daphne Greenberg; Zoi Traga Philippakos; Charles MacArthur; Christine Miller; Jennifer Martinez – Grantee Submission, 2025
Students in adult education (AE) programs have limited access to quality writing instruction due to lack of empirical research. The current study is part of a larger research project to design and test the feasibility and effectiveness of a writing curriculum based on strategy instruction with self-regulation. We present the findings of our…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Writing Instruction, Curriculum Development, Instructional Effectiveness
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Noroozi, Omid; Banihashem, Seyyed Kazem; Biemans, Harm J. A.; Smits, Mattijs; Vervoort, Mariëtte T. W.; Verbaan, Caro-Lynn – Education and Information Technologies, 2023
We know little to what extent peer feedback strategies can be applied on a large scale in higher education for complex tasks. This study aimed to design, implement, and evaluate an online-supported peer feedback module for large-scale use to enhance higher education students' argumentative essay writing performance. To do this, 330 students from…
Descriptors: Curriculum Development, Curriculum Implementation, Curriculum Evaluation, Electronic Learning
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Michalaki, Alexia – Teaching History, 2021
Frustrated by her students' glib use of catch-all terms such as 'militarism' in addressing causation, Alexia Michalaki wanted her Year 9 students to produce mature causal explanations of World War I. To encourage this to happen she went back into decades of pedagogical writing and research, teasing out the ways in which others have sought to…
Descriptors: Grade 8, Persuasive Discourse, Knowledge Level, History Instruction
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Künzli, Rudolf – Journal of Curriculum Studies, 2013
The paper outlines the reception of Schwab's essay "The practical: A language for curriculum" in German-speaking countries in the 1970s and 1980s. The story is a good demonstration of the ways in which different circumstances and phases of development determine transatlantic exchanges and the influence of concepts in the field of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Curriculum Development, Educational History, Educational Change
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Theobald, Paul – American Journal of Education, 2006
This essay contends that there are fundamental connections between a nation's political arrangements and its educational efforts on behalf of youth. Though the common school architects of the nineteenth century recognized these connections, they were profoundly forgotten in a later Darwinian milieu that suggested--our allegiance to democracy…
Descriptors: Public Schools, Essays, Organizational Development, Community
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Simonson, Michael, Ed. – Association for Educational Communications and Technology, 2007
For the thirtieth year, the Research and Theory Division of the Association for Educational Communications and Technology (AECT) is sponsoring the publication of these Proceedings. Papers published in this volume were presented at the National AECT Convention in Anaheim, California. The Proceedings of AECT's Convention are published in two…
Descriptors: Research and Development, Instructional Design, Educational Technology, Communications