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Tracey Tokuhama-Espinosa; Jovi R. S. Nazareno; Christopher Rappleye – Teachers College Press, 2024
Writing is the highest form of thinking, as evidenced by neuroimaging that shows how more neural networks are activated simultaneously during writing than during any other cognitive activity. This book will help teachers understand how the brain learns to write by unveiling 15 stages of thinking that underpin the writing process, along with…
Descriptors: Neurosciences, Writing Assignments, Writing Processes, Feedback (Response)
Reynders, Gil; Lantz, Juliette; Ruder, Suzanne M.; Stanford, Courtney L.; Cole, Renée S. – International Journal of STEM Education, 2020
Background: Process skills such as critical thinking and information processing are commonly stated outcomes for STEM undergraduate degree programs, but instructors often do not explicitly assess these skills in their courses. Students are more likely to develop these crucial skills if there is constructive alignment between an instructor's…
Descriptors: STEM Education, Critical Thinking, Thinking Skills, Undergraduate Students
Bambrick-Santoyo, Paul; Chiger, Stephen – Educational Leadership, 2017
Part of helping students learn to read critically and with comprehension is guiding them to use writing to help think through the content and clarify what they understand--or don't. Looking at students' writing also helps teachers see how much learners are really understanding in their reading and where exactly any learner is struggling. After…
Descriptors: Reading Comprehension, Writing (Composition), Teaching Methods, Figurative Language
Safwa Abdul-Aziz – ProQuest LLC, 2024
Many students struggle with decoding and implementing feedback given to them on writing assignments. Researchers and instructors have used various technologies and strategies to improve students' uptake of feedback given on written assignments, one of which is a form of video feedback called screencasting. Research has been conducted on students'…
Descriptors: Visual Aids, Video Technology, Feedback (Response), Secondary School Teachers
Brownell, Cassie J. – Education Sciences, 2020
Drawing on data generated following the 2016 United States presidential election, in this article the author considers how a classroom makerspace made Black girls' literacies visible in new ways. During a six-week integrated humanities unit in a third-grade public school classroom in the Midwestern U.S., four Black girls used making to create a…
Descriptors: African American Students, Females, Literacy, Grade 3
Canning, Elizabeth A.; Priniski, Stacy J.; Harackiewicz, Judith M. – Grantee Submission, 2019
Utility-value (UV) writing interventions help students find the personal relevance of course material to promote interest and performance. However, little is known about how best to frame the intervention, particularly in the 2-year college context where students have more varied backgrounds than the samples previously studied. Using a randomized…
Descriptors: Two Year Colleges, Intervention, Comparative Analysis, Psychological Patterns
Fan, Yu Shu – Universal Journal of Educational Research, 2016
Thinking Maps is a language of eight visual patterns, each based on a fundamental thought process, designed by Dr. David N. Hyerle. The visual patterns are based on cognitive skills and applied in all content areas. Not only are they used in different combinations for depth and complexity, but are also used by all members in the school community.…
Descriptors: Maps, Visual Stimuli, Elementary School Students, Writing Instruction
Richardson, Hannah – Online Submission, 2017
This research explores solutions and challenges pertaining to a child's development of self-efficacy. After working with fifth grade students in a public education setting, Inoticed an increased reliance on teachers for both creative and procedural directions. This paper explores research of educators who examine the internal and external factors…
Descriptors: Self Efficacy, Self Management, Grade 5, Check Lists
DerKhachadourian, Liza – Online Submission, 2019
Many university undergraduates consider writing assignments an overwhelming requirement. Traditional instructions rarely provide students with clear directions of how to use the Internet to search for authentic material and complete a task. The aim of this study was to scaffold the competence of EFL university students in writing an informative…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Foreign Countries
Ahlholm, Maria; Grünthal, Satu; Harjunen, Elina – Scandinavian Journal of Educational Research, 2017
On the basis of one teaching project carried out in a school, this article discusses collaborative writing in wiki platforms. It aims to find out what wiki reveals about pupils' knowledge construction, creation, and division and their collaborative writing skills. In this project, wiki is treated as a useful tool for analyzing these processes…
Descriptors: Web Sites, Electronic Publishing, Collaborative Writing, Writing Skills
Gomez, Kimberley; Lee, Ung-Sang – Interactive Learning Environments, 2015
John Seely Brown suggested that learning environments should be spaces in which all work is public, is subject to iterative critique by instructors and peers, and in which social interaction is primary. In such spaces, students and teachers engage in a situated cognition approach to teaching and learning where "cognitive accomplishments rely…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Interaction, Social Influences, Educational Environment
Villalon, Jorge; Calvo, Rafael A. – Educational Technology & Society, 2011
Writing assignments are ubiquitous in higher education. Writing develops not only communication skills, but also higher-level cognitive processes that facilitate deep learning. Cognitive visualizations, such as concept maps, can also be used as part of learning activities including as a form of scaffolding, or to trigger reflection by making…
Descriptors: Concept Mapping, Writing Assignments, Instructional Design, Cognitive Processes
Olson, Carol Booth; Land, Robert; Anselmi, Thelma; AuBuchon, Charlie – Journal of Adolescent & Adult Literacy, 2010
Members of a site of the California Writing Project conducted the study in this article in partnership with a large, urban, low-SES school district where 93% of the students speak English as a second language and 69% are designated Limited English Proficient. Over an eight-year period, a relatively stable group of 55 secondary teachers engaged in…
Descriptors: Writing Evaluation, Learning Strategies, Essays, Limited English Speaking
Norton, Anderson; Rutledge, Zachary – Mathematics Educator, 2006
In a secondary school mathematics teaching methods course, a research team engaged 22 preservice secondary teachers (PSTs) in designing and posing tasks to algebra students through weekly letter writing. The goal of the tasks was for PSTs to elicit responses that would indicate student engagement in the mathematical processes described by NCTM…
Descriptors: Secondary School Mathematics, Preservice Teachers, High School Students, Task Analysis
Quitadamo, Ian J.; Kurtz, Martha J. – CBE - Life Sciences Education, 2007
Increasingly, national stakeholders express concern that U.S. college graduates cannot adequately solve problems and think critically. As a set of cognitive abilities, critical thinking skills provide students with tangible academic, personal, and professional benefits that may ultimately address these concerns. As an instructional method, writing…
Descriptors: Writing Assignments, Science Laboratories, Biology, Critical Thinking
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