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Download full textCorrigan, Paul T. – Teaching & Learning Inquiry, 2023
Teachers in any discipline where reading matters should practice a robust scaffolding pedagogy to teach critical reading, in contrast to the more common but less direct approaches that often leave students to learn or not learn these skills themselves. In this essay, I describe how to adapt established methods for teaching writing (including…
Descriptors: Critical Reading, Scaffolding (Teaching Technique), Reading Instruction, Writing Assignments
Direct linkJames W. Drisko – Journal of Teaching in Social Work, 2025
The rise of AI generated texts offers promise but creates new challenges for social work teaching. A recent survey found that 89% of higher education students used AI on their homework. AI generated text may be difficult to distinguish from a student's own work, yet are being submitted as the student's own work. This poses new challenges to…
Descriptors: Plagiarism, Social Work, Counselor Training, Artificial Intelligence
Ignacio Máñez; Anastasiya A. Lipnevich; Carolina Lopera-Oquendo; Raquel Cerdán – Educational Assessment, Evaluation and Accountability, 2024
Assessing student writing assignments and providing effective feedback are a complex pedagogical skill teacher candidates need to master. Scarce literature has closely examined the type of feedback that pre-service high-school teachers spontaneously deliver when assessing student writings, which is the main goal of our study. In a sample of 255…
Descriptors: Preservice Teachers, Feedback (Response), Writing Assignments, Student Evaluation
Katherine A. Valentine – ProQuest LLC, 2024
Educators often observe differences in students' writing productivity, with some students stopping early while others continue to write for the given time. This study demonstrates how planning and goal setting are related to these written production patterns. A Growth Mixture Model identified three groups of writers: the "Early…
Descriptors: Elementary School Students, Productivity, Behavior Patterns, Writing Processes
Pervaiz Yaseeni; Fahim Rahimi; Fareed Sahil – Journal of Research Initiatives, 2024
Academic writing is a salient skill for medical students all over the world. Academic writing starts with composing effective paragraphs, laying the foundation for students' advancement in writing during college. This study investigated common mistakes in English paragraph writing committed by the first-year medical students of the Medicine…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Medical Students, Paragraph Composition, Scores
Gina C. Pieters – Journal of Economic Education, 2024
Used correctly, assessments play a vital role in the success of a course: they provide valuable feedback to students regarding their knowledge gaps, encourage deeper understanding of the material, help students to develop critical thinking, and guide students to accomplish a course's learning goals. They also provide a signal to future employers,…
Descriptors: Economics Education, Student Evaluation, Evaluation Methods, Grading
Alqassab, Maryam; Strijbos, Jan-Willem; Panadero, Ernesto; Fernández Ruiz, Javier; Warrens, Matthijs; To, Jessica – Educational Psychology Review, 2023
The growing number of peer assessment studies in the last decades created diverse design options for researchers and teachers to implement peer assessment. However, it is still unknown if there are more commonly used peer assessment formats and design elements that could be considered when designing peer assessment activities in educational…
Descriptors: Literature Reviews, Peer Evaluation, Evaluation Methods, Intellectual Disciplines
Munger, Roger; Johnson, Tyler G. – Journal of Physical Education, Recreation & Dance, 2023
Although often considered a topic reserved for the English classroom, writing has been successfully used by other disciplines to stimulate active learning of course content. This article demonstrates that physical educators can use writing as a tool to help students to better understand and, ultimately, appreciate physical activity. This article…
Descriptors: Physical Education Teachers, Physical Education, Writing Instruction, Secondary School Teachers
Natthaphong Sirijanchuen; Kittitouch Soontornwipast – rEFLections, 2025
Following a paradigm of English as an international language -- one that values cultural diversity -- this classroom research conducted a quasi-experiment using a single-group pretest and posttest design. The study incorporated learning materials from both Anglophone and non-Anglophone settings, utilizing international movie trailers with English…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, English (Second Language), Language Skills, Writing Skills
Charlotta Rönn – Educational Review, 2024
This ethnographic study in education, based on observations, audio-visual recordings and interviews, explored pupils' supportive interactions in a year eight class at a Swedish school. Goffman's dramaturgical theory of the presentation of self was used as a theoretical framework with a focus on the pupils' interactions with their classmates in…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Compulsory Education, Grade 8, Peer Relationship
Piotr Konieczny – College Teaching, 2024
This Quick Fix describes how the emerging "writing for Wikipedia" activity allows replacing a traditional written paper with a more motivating, digital assignment that also allows students to contribute to society. It presents the most efficient ways to incorporate Wikipedia into one's teaching curriculum, while also discussing best…
Descriptors: Encyclopedias, Electronic Publishing, Web Sites, Writing Assignments
Ovid, Dax; Abrams, L'vannah; Carlson, Tess; Dieter, Mark; Flores, Paulos; Frischer, David; Goolish, Jolie; Bernt, Michelle La-Fevre; Lancaster, Amber; Lipski, Christopher; Luna, Joshua Vargas; Luong, Lucy M. C.; Mullin, Marlene; Newman, Mia Janelle; Quintero, Carolina; Reis, Julie; Robinson, Freja; Ross, Allison James; Simon, Hilary; Souza, Gianne; Taylor, Jess; Ward, Katherine E.; White, Yvonne Lever; Witkop, Emily; Yang, Christine; Zenilman, Aliza; Zhang, Eddie; Schinske, Jeffrey N.; Tanner, Kimberly D. – CBE - Life Sciences Education, 2023
Based on theoretical frameworks of scientist stereotypes, possible selves, and science identity, written assignments were developed to teach science content through biographies and research of counter-stereotypical scientists--Scientist Spotlights (www.scientistspotlights.org). Previous studies on Scientist Spotlight assignments showed significant…
Descriptors: Scientists, Secondary School Students, Self Concept, Writing Assignments
Marjorie Barnes – ProQuest LLC, 2025
This participatory action research (PAR) dissertation study investigates the implementation of Universal Design for Learning (UDL) principles by community college faculty in first-year writing courses to support students with learning disabilities at a New Jersey community college. Through a collaborative approach involving faculty as active…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, College Faculty, Access to Education, Freshman Composition
Usman Khalid – Assessment Update, 2025
This article speaks on a critical component of independent learning is to cultivate the habit of self-study, which is an effective way of improving students' grades, material understanding, class participation, and confidence. Self-study also enables students to be independent learners, which not only hones their critical and reasoning skills but…
Descriptors: Economics Education, College Seniors, Independent Study, Lifelong Learning
Karina Lorenz Mrakovcich; Christopher L. LaCasse – Journal of College Science Teaching, 2025
This paper describes the collaboration of a Writing Center director and a professor of a Fisheries Biology course in support of a research paper entitled, "The World Without," which asks students to convince readers of the likely ecological consequences associated with the extinction of a finfish species or aquatic habitat. Opportunities…
Descriptors: Writing (Composition), Laboratories, Biological Sciences, Biodiversity
