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Chinn, Pauline W. U.; Hilgers, Thomas L. – Journal of Research in Science Teaching, 2000
Examines the relationships among instructors' course goals, instructional activities, and students' assessment of their learning of content and writing in writing-intensive undergraduate natural and applied science courses. Finds that instructors are described along a continuum anchored by instructor-as-corrector on one end and…
Descriptors: Content Area Writing, Course Objectives, Higher Education, Science Instruction
Hand, Brian; Hohenshell, Liesl; Prain, Vaughan – Journal of Research in Science Teaching, 2004
Whereas there has been strong advocacy of the value of writing for learning in science, the role of student planning in this approach and the relationships between planning, writing, and learning have been underresearched. Our mixed method study aimed to address this issue by seeking to identify quantitative differences in learning outcomes…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Writing Skills, Secondary Education, Science Instruction