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Simonson, Shawn R. – College Teaching, 2017
Fernald developed the Monte Carlo Quiz format to enhance retention, encourage students to prepare for class, read with intention, and organize information in psychology classes. This author modified the Monte Carlo Quiz, combined it with the Minute Paper, and applied it to various courses. Students write quiz questions as part of the Minute Paper…
Descriptors: Tests, Student Motivation, Student Participation, Retention (Psychology)
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Doucette, Danny; Clark, Russell; Singh, Chandralekha – Physical Review Physics Education Research, 2020
At universities where introductory physics labs are taught by graduate student teaching assistants (TAs), there is a need for specialized professional development for those TAs. This paper presents a specific instantiation of a model for lab TA professional development that uses a combination of cognitive apprenticeship and expectancy-value…
Descriptors: Faculty Development, Teaching Assistants, Physics, Science Instruction
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Jeffers, Adam R. – Equity & Excellence in Education, 2017
This research examines academic experiences of African American males (ages 18-25) who attended urban schools in southern California. The participants were incarcerated for at least one year prior to being housed in a pre-release program where they reflected on their academic experiences and perceptions of the school environment. The participants'…
Descriptors: Males, African Americans, Correctional Institutions, Institutionalized Persons
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Romero, Yanilis; Manjarres, Milton Pájaro – English Language Teaching, 2016
This research study examines the assumptions of creating bilingual scenarios to promote English language learning for 384 students of ninth, tenth and eleventh grade of a public school in Monteria Colombia. An action research methodology was carried out in this study. The findings of this research suggested that the creation of bilingual scenarios…
Descriptors: Bilingual Education Programs, Curriculum Design, Vignettes, Grade 9
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Natkin, Lisa Watts – Journal of General Education, 2016
Higher education institutions are increasingly interested in infusing sustainability content into their curricula. This can be accomplished through general education programs, which the University of Vermont recently established. The implementation of this new requirement created a unique opportunity to investigate sustainability- related teaching…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Sustainability, General Education, Teaching Methods
Weider, Lori – ProQuest LLC, 2013
The city and school system in this research project is identified with a pseudonym as City X. This doctoral project, "Online publishing and authentic audience to improve student writing", is designed as one element of a district wide initiative to improve student writing literacy in the City X Public School district. In City X, as in…
Descriptors: Writing Skills, Writing Improvement, Electronic Publishing, Internet
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Husband, Terry – i.e.: inquiry in education, 2015
The purpose of this critical action research study is to examine how critical literacy, when used in the social studies classroom, can open up spaces where children construct, deconstruct, and reconstruct superficial notions of race and racism in an early childhood classroom. A nine lesson unit on African American history was developed and…
Descriptors: Critical Literacy, Social Studies, Race, Racial Bias
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Nganga, Lydiah – Journal of Curriculum and Teaching, 2015
The purpose of this qualitative study was to examine pre-service teachers' perceptions of a culturally responsive, anti-bias curriculum. Additionally, this study explored how the use of culturally responsive course work influenced the participating pre-service teachers' perceptions. Responses to both pre and post-teaching open ended questions,…
Descriptors: Qualitative Research, Preservice Teachers, Student Attitudes, Culturally Relevant Education
Cross, Stephanie Behm; Bayazit, Nermin Tosmur – Teacher Education Quarterly, 2014
The authors designed the project described her in order to address their students' expressed frustrations at the perceived disconnect between theory and practice. The project combined course readings, journaling, collaboratively created observation protocols, and classroom observation into a semester-long iterative assignment. The students' work…
Descriptors: Theory Practice Relationship, Interviews, Preservice Teacher Education, Student Attitudes
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Huang, Hsin-Yi Cyndi – English Language Teaching, 2016
With the availability of Web 2.0 technologies, blogs have become useful and attractive tools for teachers of English as a Foreign Language (EFL) in their writing classes. Learners do not need to understand HTML in order to construct blogs, and the appearance and content can be facilitated via the use of photos, music, and video files (Vurdien,…
Descriptors: Teacher Attitudes, Electronic Publishing, Web Sites, Web 2.0 Technologies
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Fageeh, Abdulaziz; Mekheimer, Mohamed Amin A. – JALT CALL Journal, 2013
This study aimed to recognize the pedagogical effects of Blackboard as a computer-mediated communication (CMC) environment for teaching academic writing and improving students' attitudes toward academic writing. Learners' interactions in the CMC environment of Blackboard were analyzed via a controlled descriptive design to examine how students…
Descriptors: Integrated Learning Systems, Computer Mediated Communication, Writing Instruction, Student Attitudes
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Correia, Marlene Ponte – Young Children, 2011
Informational texts include books as well as text in other formats such as magazines, newspapers, and online articles. The primary purpose of informational text is to provide information about the natural and social world. Literacy research cites many reasons why nonfiction/informational texts should be included in primary classrooms. The…
Descriptors: Literacy, Reading Instruction, Nonfiction, Reading Material Selection
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McConlogue, Teresa – Assessment & Evaluation in Higher Education, 2012
Peer assessment of long written tasks poses particular problems as these tasks typically involve complex learning and solving ill-structured problems which require divergent responses. Marking reliability of this kind of writing task is difficult to achieve. The author illustrates this through an evaluation of two implementations of peer…
Descriptors: Focus Groups, Student Evaluation, Grading, Peer Evaluation
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Hashemi, Sylvana Sofkova; Bunting, Leona Johansson – Research-publishing.net, 2012
Recent investments in schools in Sweden focus on increased availability of technology and ways to incorporate digital media in the classroom. Via the computer screen, students are involved in a new type of writing and communication culture that allows for new approaches in literacy instruction and learning (Lorentzen & Smidt, 2010). The…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Elementary School Students, Educational Technology, Technology Uses in Education
Jett, Janice Rowe – ProQuest LLC, 2013
With the steady increase of ubiquitous computing initiatives across the country in the last decade, there is a pressing need for specific research looking at content area instruction in 1:1 settings. This qualitative multiple case study examines writing instruction at two middle schools as it is delivered by experienced teachers in five English…
Descriptors: Educational Technology, Laptop Computers, Computer Uses in Education, Qualitative Research
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