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Faeze Safari; Alireza Ahmadi – Language Learning Journal, 2025
Integrated writing tasks, which require students to incorporate information from multiple sources into their writing, are gaining attention in language assessment and writing instruction due to their alignment with the expectations of academic and professional writing. Understanding what aspects of integrated tasks are perceived as challenging by…
Descriptors: Writing Instruction, Writing Assignments, Second Language Learning, Information Sources
Guy J. Krueger – Thresholds in Education, 2025
Generative AI has become a quotidian discussion topic in many writing departments, and the conversations often focus on the negative aspects or the disruptions it has caused. A growing number of teachers and scholars, though, have embraced the new technology and welcomed it into their classrooms. In the Spring 2024 semester, students in my…
Descriptors: Writing Instruction, Artificial Intelligence, Computer Software, Technology Integration
Chad C. Tossell; Nathan L. Tenhundfeld; Ali Momen; Katrina Cooley; Ewart J. de Visser – IEEE Transactions on Learning Technologies, 2024
This article examined student experiences before and after an essay writing assignment that required the use of ChatGPT within an undergraduate engineering course. Utilizing a pre-post study design, we gathered data from 24 participants to evaluate ChatGPT's support for both completing and grading an essay assignment, exploring its educational…
Descriptors: Student Attitudes, Computer Software, Artificial Intelligence, Grading
Narmin Tartila Banu; Aron Darmody; Leighann C. Neilson – Journal of Marketing Education, 2024
This paper discusses the creation and implementation of an experiential learning assignment focused on the United Nation's Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 12, which aims to ensure sustainable consumption and production patterns. Using a grounded theory approach that combines analyzing 90 senior-level marketing students' reflective essays…
Descriptors: Marketing, Active Learning, Business Administration Education, Food
Inan Deniz Erguvan – Discover Education, 2024
With sustainability becoming a familiar concept in society, higher education institutions have also started playing a more active role in this field, showing an increasing interest in students' comprehension of sustainability. This interest has led to the need for developing methods of assessing students' sustainability knowledge, as observed in…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, College Freshmen, Freshman Composition, Sustainability
Noroozi, Omid; Kerman, Nafiseh Taghizadeh; Banihashem, Seyyed Kazem; Biemans, Harm J. A. – International Society for Technology, Education, and Science, 2022
In the literature, little is known regarding the role of students' perceived motivation and perceived fairness of peer feedback for their learning satisfaction, particularly in the context of argumentative essay writing in online learning environments. This study explores the effects of students' perceived motivation and perceived fairness of peer…
Descriptors: Student Motivation, Student Attitudes, Peer Influence, Feedback (Response)
Tarchi, Christian – Journal of College Reading and Learning, 2021
People need to critically comprehend information across multiple sources that express contradictory viewpoints to make decisions on relevant everyday-life issues and participate in the democratic discourse. However, the processing of multiple documents depends on readers' prior beliefs. The present study investigated the moderating effect of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Undergraduate Students, Prompting, Reading Comprehension
Turk, Judith K. – Natural Sciences Education, 2023
Literature circles are student-led, small-group discussions that promote active learning and engagement with literary texts. The objective of this study was to assess the impact of literature circles on student engagement and learning outcomes in a pedology course. For various reading assignments throughout the semester, students either…
Descriptors: Soil Science, Reading Assignments, Science Instruction, Student Attitudes
Luzhen Tang; Kejie Shen; Huixiao Le; Yuan Shen; Shufang Tan; Yueying Zhao; Torsten Juelich; Xinyu Li; Dragan Gaševic; Yizhou Fan – Journal of Computer Assisted Learning, 2024
Background: Learners' writing skills are critical to their academic and professional development. Previous studies have shown that learners' self-assessment during writing is essential for assessing their writing products and monitoring their writing processes. However, conducting practical self-assessments of writing remains challenging for…
Descriptors: Self Evaluation (Individuals), Formative Evaluation, Writing Assignments, Writing Skills
Nujood Al-Reshaid; Ahmad I. Alhojailan – Educational Process: International Journal, 2025
Background/purpose: Academic writing in English as a Foreign Language (EFL) poses challenges for graduate students, particularly in achieving coherence and organization. Thematic choices play a crucial role in guiding readers and ensuring textual cohesion. While Theme selection has been explored in various contexts, little research has examined…
Descriptors: Graduate Students, Literary Genres, Writing Strategies, Semantics
Manik R. Reddy; Nils G. Walter; Yulia V. Sevryugina – Journal of Chemical Education, 2024
The effective and responsible educational application of ChatGPT and other generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) tools constitutes an active area of exploration. This study describes and assesses the implementation of a structured, GenAI-assisted scientific essay writing assignment in nucleic acid biochemistry. Briefly, students created,…
Descriptors: Artificial Intelligence, Technology Uses in Education, Writing Assignments, Biochemistry
Van Tassel, Kristin; Jorsch, Thomas F. – Liberal Education, 2018
Faculty at Bethany College, Kansas found that when engaging with controversial topics like social justice, students needed lower-stakes spaces to think--and history and writing, together, provided these needed spaces. When taught in combination, these two subject areas prompted engagement and self-reflection, and the interdisciplinary synergy…
Descriptors: Social Justice, Interdisciplinary Approach, Writing Assignments, College Faculty
Lee, Senyung; Lim, Gad S.; Basse, Rachel – Language Assessment Quarterly, 2021
This study investigated the extent to which an extended time limit in an argumentative writing test affects the quality of argumentation in L2 writing. Thirty-two adult ESL learners each wrote two essays on different prompts, one in 30 minutes and one in 45 minutes in a counter-balanced design. The 64 essays were analytically rated by four trained…
Descriptors: Second Language Instruction, Persuasive Discourse, Writing (Composition), Adult Learning
Somayeh Tahmouresi – ProQuest LLC, 2021
Individual differences factors (IDs) play significant roles in second language (L2) learning. Compared to the general field of SLA, however, little is known in the L2 writing domain regarding the influence of learner factors in L2 writing achievement. Therefore, in this study, I aimed to extend the IDs research in L2 writing by closely examining…
Descriptors: Writing Instruction, Individual Differences, Universities, English (Second Language)
Ruder, Phil – Journal of Economic Education, 2021
The author of this article describes individual pre-class and group in-class assignments based on current news articles. Guided student pre-class readings of periodical articles can form the basis for engaging in-class group assignments. Many economics instructors seek to develop student skills at applying the concepts under study to analyze…
Descriptors: Reading Materials, Group Activities, Current Events, News Media