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Leporati, Matthew – CEA Forum, 2021
This article explores how college instructors can use William Blake's unique pairing of image and text -- what W.J.T. Mitchell calls "composite art" -- to encourage students to think and write about the dynamic interplay of image and text in modern communications. Opening with an anecdote of teaching Songs of Innocence and of Experience…
Descriptors: Writing Instruction, Freshman Composition, Illustrations, Poetry
Knight, Jefferson D.; Budd, Skylar; Bruehl, Margaret; Pan, Denise – Journal of Chemical Education, 2021
Scientific knowledge is growing rapidly, particularly in biochemistry, an interdisciplinary subject in which the courses attract diverse students with varied disciplinary interests and career goals. Thus, there is a need to teach skills and concepts in biochemistry in a way that is both compelling to a variety of learners and also relevant to…
Descriptors: Biochemistry, Science Education, Writing Assignments, Scientific Concepts
Virtue, Emily E. – Journal of Effective Teaching in Higher Education, 2019
The transition to college can be difficult for many first-year students. Students who are conditionally enrolled may struggle more than their peers in terms of feeling comfortable in an academic setting. This case study explores how conditionally-enrolled students who participated in a summer bridge program read popular literature to explore their…
Descriptors: Fiction, Identification (Psychology), Student Adjustment, At Risk Students
Laura Tanenbaum; Kristen Gallagher – Teachers College Record, 2024
In recent years, increased attention has been paid to mental health struggles among students, and a range of interventions have been proposed to improve student retention and learning through "trauma-engaged pedagogy" and "cultures of caring." Drawing on the insights of affect theory, we argue that such a focus, although…
Descriptors: Alienation, Assignments, Design, Mental Health
Irene K. Guttilla Reed; Michelle L. Kraczkowski; Steven J. Pearlman – Journal of College Science Teaching, 2024
Critical thinking is essential in academia and the workforce. Although writing can be used as a pedagogical tool for fostering deeper subject matter understanding, increased retention, and critical thinking, relatively few science courses are writing based. This writing-based introductory science course provided an opportunity for students to…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Biology, Science Instruction, Molecular Biology
Savannah Lopez; Allison Pham; Jeremy L. Hsu; Patricia A. Halpin – Advances in Physiology Education, 2024
The syllabus is a required document for all courses to provide students with course information, policies, and assignment deadlines. The goals of this study were to investigate students' perception of the role of the syllabus, preferred location of assignment deadlines, and preferred style of receiving deadline notifications. Faculty (n = 14) and…
Descriptors: Course Descriptions, Learning Management Systems, Student Attitudes, Assignments
Teresa Thonney – College Teaching, 2024
This article describes the results of a survey of community college instructors who were asked about the writing they assign in non-English courses. The 171 respondents, representing 140 colleges, identified the kinds of writing they assign and the challenges that come with assigning writing. These challenges included finding time to grade…
Descriptors: Teacher Attitudes, Community Colleges, College Faculty, Writing Instruction
Ruby A. Daniels; Kathryn Appenzeller Knowles; Amanda Lindner; Emily Naasz – Marketing Education Review, 2024
In marketing, the traditional approach for teaching quantitative concepts uses individual courses, such as marketing research and business statistics. While this pedagogy is common, research indicates it is difficult for students to master quantitative concepts in a single course. Instead, quantitative reasoning (QR) requires repeated practice, so…
Descriptors: Marketing, Business Administration Education, Statistics Education, Spiral Curriculum
D. Joel Whalen; Charles Drehmer; Andrew Cavanaugh – Business and Professional Communication Quarterly, 2024
This My Favorite Assignment (MFA) article features 11 teaching innovations first presented at the 2023 Association for Business Communication Annual International Conference held Denver, Colorado, USA. These assignments are designed to boost students' writing, persuasion, crisis management skills, and personal and professional development.
Descriptors: Conferences (Gatherings), Writing Assignments, Business Communication, Persuasive Discourse
Belete Hiluf; Marew Alemu; Hailay Tesfay Gebremariam – Cogent Education, 2024
Emotional intelligence (EI) refers to the ability to recognize, understand, and manage emotions, which has been found to play a crucial role in academic achievement. However, there is limited research on the impact of EI on writing performance, particularly in the Ethiopian context. Therefore, this study aims to address this gap by examining the…
Descriptors: Writing Achievement, High School Students, Emotional Intelligence, Cultural Context
Michael Lewis – ProQuest LLC, 2024
This study integrates visual art with a public speaking assignment to explore participants' experiences and perceptions of engagement in the Teacher-Researcher's course at Lynn University. Using an action research design and with informed consent, seven students volunteered as participants. This study investigates these seven participants'…
Descriptors: Visual Arts, Public Speaking, Assignments, Universities
Anthony Underwood; Aidan Sichel; Emily C. Marshall – Journal of Statistics and Data Science Education, 2024
Economics has become increasingly empirical and, alongside this shift, has come more demand for improved transparency and reproducibility in empirical economic research. In this article, we distribute a survey to almost 1500 economics faculty from the top 161 liberal arts colleges with an economics major (according to U.S. News & World Report)…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Economics Education, Undergraduate Students, Liberal Arts
Tara La Rose – Journal of Teaching in Social Work, 2024
Contract grading provides graduate-level students with greater control and autonomy within the learning process. The contract grading approach requires students to take greater responsibility for achieving course learning outcomes as well as allowing learners to adjust the style and focus of assignments to meet their own unique needs and desires.…
Descriptors: Social Work, Leadership Training, Counselor Training, Graduate Students
Rebecca L. Matz; Mark Mills; Holly A. Derry; Benjamin T. Hayward; Caitlin Hayward – British Journal of Educational Technology, 2024
Mastery-based assignments typically provide students with multiple opportunities to improve their performance, but getting students to take advantage of these opportunities is difficult. We report on the implementation of a two-part series of nudges designed to improve students' engagement with and performance on mastery-based assignments in…
Descriptors: Mastery Learning, Scores, Assignments, Prompting
Jenna M. T. Vest – ProQuest LLC, 2024
This study focuses on creating a reliable and valid instrument to measure high school students' perceptions of academic challenge. The research is divided into four phases: qualitative analysis, item development, exploratory factor analysis (EFA), and validation. Initial data from college students' retrospective views and high school students'…
Descriptors: Test Construction, Test Validity, Student Attitudes, Academic Achievement