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Sumrall, William J.; Sumrall, Kristen M. – Science Activities: Projects and Curriculum Ideas in STEM Classrooms, 2021
This article's focus was on transitioning middle grade students from the position of having a positive environmental attitude toward their exhibiting actual behaviors that address climate change. Using research by Newhouse's criteria of changing attitude into behavior, specific activities were developed and tested in a eighth grade classroom. The…
Descriptors: Middle School Students, Environmental Education, Climate, Attitude Change
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Hayes, David – Arts and Humanities in Higher Education: An International Journal of Theory, Research and Practice, 2015
Critical thinking pedagogy is misguided. Ostensibly a cure for narrowness of thought, by using the emotions appropriate to conflict, it names only one mode of relation to material among many others. Ostensibly a cure for fallacies, critical thinking tends to dishonesty in practice because it habitually leaps to premature ideas of what the object…
Descriptors: Critical Thinking, Teaching Methods, Beliefs, Misconceptions
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Tan-Ooi, L. C.; Tan, K. E. – Advances in Language and Literary Studies, 2013
This study investigated the impact of a designed web-based learning module on Year 12 students' learning of argumentative writing. The module known as WebQuest Learning Module or WebQLM comprises four units of learning. The subjects were 68 Year 12 Arts Stream students in an urban school in Penang. The main objective of this study was to…
Descriptors: Persuasive Discourse, Writing Instruction, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
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LaRoche, Mary – College English, 1983
Relates how experience writing technical documents yielded insight into the nature of the problems attending the composition of technical discourse. (JL)
Descriptors: Credibility, Higher Education, Information Services, Persuasive Discourse