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Rebecca B. Penrose; Kristi J. Chavez – Communications in Information Literacy, 2024
This article showcases an instructor-librarian collaborative model for teaching critical information literacy (CIL) skills in a higher education course by incorporating interactive workshops into a sequence of required course assignments. Using an asset-focused design, this assignment sequence allows students to first demonstrate their existing…
Descriptors: Information Literacy, Teacher Collaboration, Student Writing Models, Research Skills
Taleyarkhan, Manaz; Dasgupta, Chandan; Garcia, John Mendoza; Magana, Alejandra J. – Journal of Science Education and Technology, 2018
Engineering design thinking is hard to teach and still harder to learn by novices primarily due to the undetermined nature of engineering problems that often results in multiple solutions. In this paper, we investigate the effect of teaching engineering design thinking to freshmen students by using a computer-aided Design (CAD) simulation…
Descriptors: Design, Educational Technology, Engineering Education, Engineering Technology
Hua, Youjia; Lee, David L.; Stansbery, Sam; McAfee, James K. – Learning Disabilities: A Multidisciplinary Journal, 2014
Task interspersal is an academic material modification procedure implemented by adding a sequence of brief tasks prior to more difficult academic tasks. The purpose of this study was to investigate the effects of the interspersal procedure under both time-based (i.e., time allotted to complete task held constant) and task-based (i.e., number of…
Descriptors: Learning Disabilities, Timed Tests, Time on Task, Task Analysis
Cheeseman, Jill; Clarke, Doug; Roche, Anne; Wilson, Karen – Mathematics Education Research Group of Australasia, 2013
The findings discussed here are a small part of a larger study entitled, "Encouraging Persistence Maintaining Challenge". The paper reports five teachers' observations of the implementation of a task which was new to them. The teachers were asked to identify aspects of the task which they perceived as challenging for the Year 6 students.…
Descriptors: Mathematics Instruction, Foreign Countries, Teaching Methods, Assignments
Duke, Daniel L. – Management in Education, 2014
Prompted by the need for leaders able to turn around chronically low-performing schools, states, universities, education groups, and school districts in the US have initiated a variety of principal development programs. Some programs focus on enhancing the skills of experienced administrators, while others target talented teachers and even…
Descriptors: Low Achievement, Disadvantaged Schools, Leadership Training, Training Methods

Johns, Ann M. – TESOL Quarterly, 1986
Reviews current literature on coherence in written text, defines coherence in broad terms, and then presents a three-lesson revision unit based on modern coherence principles. In this unit, students "deconstruct" assignment prompts, prepare first drafts, examine another student's first draft, and then revise their essays and examine the revisions.…
Descriptors: Assignments, Cohesion (Written Composition), English for Academic Purposes, Essays