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Alex Hidalgo – History Teacher, 2024
In the early modern era, Spanish missionaries, cosmographers, chroniclers, and physicians wrote major studies on botany, ethnography, navigation, Indigenous languages, war, and history, aided by capable, though often reluctant, Indigenous informants. They penned this rich body of scholarship using iron gall ink -- a mixture of tannins, sulfates,…
Descriptors: History Instruction, Experiential Learning, Assignments, Undergraduate Students
Charles Ernest Wright – ProQuest LLC, 2024
This Dissertation addresses findings from a qualitative case study. The researcher provided a) training and b) analysis of the follow-up performance of a Peer Mentor from the Student Success Center at an Hispanic Serving Institution (HSI), at The University of Texas at San Antonio. Following the training, prepared by Charles Ernest Wright, the…
Descriptors: Hispanic American Students, Minority Serving Institutions, Undergraduate Students, Mentors
Melissa A. Otero – ProQuest LLC, 2024
With the advent of ChatGPT and other artificial intelligence (AI) tools, students have a new instrument that can create writing samples for them, making it easy to violate academic integrity. A constructivist grounded theory multiple-case study was conducted to address faculty perceptions of ChatGPT as a tool for learning and teaching instead of a…
Descriptors: Artificial Intelligence, Computer Software, Synchronous Communication, Cheating
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Melony Shemberger – Journal of Faculty Development, 2024
The framework known as Transparency in Learning and Teaching, often called TILT, advocates small enhancements in teaching, encouraging faculty to build on the existing strengths of their courses. When the COVID-19 pandemic emerged in spring 2020, TILT quickly became a method that college and university teaching centers introduced to faculty to…
Descriptors: Faculty Development, Scaffolding (Teaching Technique), COVID-19, Pandemics
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Tim M. Benning – Active Learning in Higher Education, 2024
Reducing free-riding is an important challenge for educators who use group projects. In this study, we measure students' preferences for group project characteristics and investigate if characteristics that better help to reduce free-riding become more important for students when stakes increase. We used a discrete choice experiment based on 12…
Descriptors: Group Dynamics, Group Activities, Student Participation, Student Attitudes
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Yoshiko M. Herrera – Journal of Political Science Education, 2024
In this article I discuss an approach to teaching about the Russian war in Ukraine that uses the war as a focal point for teaching about topics in comparative politics and international relations. I discuss the pedagogical advantages for political science teaching, including meeting the interests of students, introducing students to theories in…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, War, Political Science, Political Attitudes
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Drury, Jeffrey P. Mehltretter; Paliewicz, Nicholas S.; Drury, Sara A. Mehltretter – Journal of Communication Pedagogy, 2019
This article assists argumentation and debate instructors in developing courses that provide coverage of foundational concepts while reflecting their own interests. Courses in argumentation and debate also offer instructors an opportunity to teach through applied engagement with contemporary events. We encourage instructors to reflect on the…
Descriptors: Persuasive Discourse, Debate, Undergraduate Students, Course Descriptions
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Gordon, Jeremy G. – Journal of the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning, 2021
In response to ongoing expansion of neoliberal ideology in democratic education, this essay details a classroom experiment that attempts to "redo," or "recraft" democracy. Recrafting democracy, in this context, takes shape in active efforts to compose an agonistic public sphere through a specific kind of "lettering a…
Descriptors: Neoliberalism, Democracy, Democratic Values, Activism
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Briscoe, Andrea; Lough, Kyser – Journal of the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning, 2021
This case study uses a diversity and critical thinking exercise in a photojournalism class to show how journalism educators can incorporate race and gender conversations about ethics and judgment into traditionally skills-oriented courses. It is crucial that journalism students learn how to apply their skills properly in an era of social unrest,…
Descriptors: Assignments, Photography, Critical Theory, Photojournalism
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Quirk, Katie – Honors in Practice, 2021
This study presents a scaffold approach to building critical academic writing skills among honors students. Faced with limited instructional time, a reading-intensive curriculum, and students in need of rigorous writing instruction, a scaffold model was developed to include a series of condensed writing assignments called "Close Reading…
Descriptors: Critical Thinking, Writing Instruction, Honors Curriculum, Scaffolding (Teaching Technique)
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Emeny, William G.; Hartwig, Marissa K.; Rohrer, Doug – Applied Cognitive Psychology, 2021
The practice assignments in a mathematics textbook or course can be arranged so that most of the problems relating to any particular concept are massed together in a single assignment, or these related problems can be distributed across many assignments--a format known as spaced practice. Here we report the results of two classroom experiments…
Descriptors: Mathematics Instruction, Assignments, Scores, Mathematics Tests
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Romano, Nike – Education as Change, 2021
This article explores some of the complexities of teaching art and design history to students in a Design Extended Curriculum Programme at a university of technology in the context of post-1994 South African society--a society troubled by the ghosts of colonial and apartheid histories that agitate the present/future. Tracking a series of…
Descriptors: Art History, Foreign Countries, Teaching Methods, Feminism
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Ramadhanti, Dina; Yanda, Diyan Permata – International Journal of Language Education, 2021
One of the factors that can affect the ability to write explanatory text is metacognitive awareness. By using the descriptive method, the students' level of metacognitive awareness was explained, and by using the correlational method the effect of metacognitive awareness towards explanatory text writing ability was explained. The results showed…
Descriptors: Metacognition, Correlation, Writing Skills, Writing Assignments
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Frede, Christiane; Knobelsdorf, Maria – Computer Science Education, 2021
Background and Context: Considerable numbers of Computer science (CS) undergraduate majors struggle in Theory of Computation (ToC) courses, which strengthen bimodality beliefs of student performance. Reasons for students struggling are assumed to be manifold but substantial ground is based on studies providing singular insights into this matter.…
Descriptors: Computer Science Education, Academic Achievement, Introductory Courses, Computation
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Hogan, Mairéad; Young, Karen – Journal of Information Systems Education, 2021
The challenges of designing group assignments in university environments, with the aim of effectively developing teamwork skills, are well documented. It is often assumed that simply placing students in assignment groups will facilitate the development of the task and interpersonal skills necessary for teamwork. However, very often students…
Descriptors: Cooperative Learning, Assignments, Group Activities, Soft Skills
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