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Mairi Cowan – Assessment & Evaluation in Higher Education, 2024
Research on flexible assessment suggests that providing students with choice in assignments can increase motivation and deepen investment in learning. Although instructors are often advised to adopt flexible assessment, they are also warned about potential detriments such as perceived lack of rigour among colleagues, the stress that…
Descriptors: Student Evaluation, Alternative Assessment, Assignments, Educational Benefits
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Kirsten Dean; Julia Feerrar; Katlyn Griffin; Kelsey Hammer – New Directions for Teaching and Learning, 2024
In this chapter, a team of academic librarians offers strategies to address four common challenges instructors face when incorporating digital literacy into their courses.
Descriptors: Holistic Approach, Digital Literacy, Partnerships in Education, Academic Libraries
Michael Fienberg – ProQuest LLC, 2024
Secondary course assignment substantially determines a teacher's day-to-day work life, incentivizing them to realize their personal desires, which prior work shows tend to be working with more advanced students. Teachers have varying abilities to enact these desires, potentially due to their political capital, which is largely influenced by…
Descriptors: Secondary School Teachers, Assignments, Faculty Mobility, Leadership
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Inan Deniz Erguvan – Discover Education, 2024
With sustainability becoming a familiar concept in society, higher education institutions have also started playing a more active role in this field, showing an increasing interest in students' comprehension of sustainability. This interest has led to the need for developing methods of assessing students' sustainability knowledge, as observed in…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, College Freshmen, Freshman Composition, Sustainability
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Congrui Jin; Tareq Daher – Journal of Civil Engineering Education, 2024
In engineering education, there is a prioritization of microethics and an omission of macroethics. Although macroethics is particularly significant for civil engineering, in which decision making directly influences the quality of civil infrastructure, current educational practices in civil engineering do not reflect this importance. This case…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Engineering, Civil Engineering, Environmental Education
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Ani Susanti; Bambang Widi Pratolo; Khusnawati – English Language Teaching Educational Journal, 2024
International Student Mobility Programs (ISMPs) have become increasingly popular among university students. This study explores the perceptions of undergraduate students from the English Education Study Program at a private university in Yogyakarta Indonesia who have participated in ISMPs, focusing on the advantages and challenges they…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Student Attitudes, Foreign Students, Student Mobility
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Lauer, Thomas W. – Information Systems Education Journal, 2020
This paper gives four examples of the use of short speculative fiction for teaching different aspects of information privacy. Information privacy is multi-faceted; as an area of study it intersects with a number of fields. A non-exhaustive list could include: law, information systems, decision science, marketing, management, philosophy,…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Fiction, Privacy, Information Security
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Walls, Jill K. – Journal of the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning, 2020
In this paper we provide two concrete examples of class assignments, developed by the authors, which challenge students to think more critically about themselves, their cultural values and beliefs, and the "invisible forces" that shape their perspectives. We include samples from students' work and our reflections to demonstrate the types…
Descriptors: Assignments, Cultural Awareness, Diversity, Undergraduate Students
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Özenç, Mehmet – International Online Journal of Education and Teaching, 2020
The purpose of this study was to determine primary school teachers' views on homework and their homework practices. In the study, phenomenological study design, one of the qualitative research methods, was employed. The study data were collected by interviews conducted with 14 primary school teachers working in the city of Nigde. The data were…
Descriptors: Elementary School Teachers, Teacher Attitudes, Homework, Assignments
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Koch, Griffin E.; Akpan, Essang; Coutanche, Marc N. – Learning & Memory, 2020
The features of an image can be represented at multiple levels--from its low-level visual properties to high-level meaning. What drives some images to be memorable while others are forgettable? We address this question across two behavioral experiments. In the first, different layers of a convolutional neural network (CNN), which represent…
Descriptors: Prediction, Memory, Brain Hemisphere Functions, Task Analysis
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Rohrer, Doug; Dedrick, Robert F.; Hartwig, Marissa K. – Educational Psychology Review, 2020
A typical mathematics assignment consists of a block of problems devoted to the same topic, yet several classroom-based randomized controlled trials have found that students obtain higher test scores when most practice problems are mixed with different kinds of problems--a format known as interleaved practice. Interleaving prevents students from…
Descriptors: Mathematics Education, Problem Solving, Mathematics Tests, Assignments
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Lind, Stephen J. – Business and Professional Communication Quarterly, 2020
Despite its ubiquity across business contexts, video creation is a rarity in business communication curricula. This article is intended to offer the field of business communication education both a rationale and mechanism by which to better align with modern business communication practice. Part 1 provides a comprehensive demonstration of the…
Descriptors: Video Technology, Business Communication, Alignment (Education), College Instruction
Kittle, Penny; Gallagher, Kelly – Educational Leadership, 2020
Many students enter upper grades unprepared to make decisions and take charge of their work, especially with writing assignments and organizing their thinking in any written piece. With good intention, many teachers make lots of decisions for students on organization and development a piece of writing. Gallagher and Kittle share how they let…
Descriptors: Writing Assignments, Writing Instruction, Teaching Methods, Writing (Composition)
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Gorzycki, Meg; Desa, Geoffrey; Howard, Pamela J.; Allen, Diane D. – Journal of Adolescent & Adult Literacy, 2020
Qualitative data analysis from open-ended comments written by 206 undergraduates illustrates student attitudes, beliefs, and practices that reveal an academic reading paradox. Consistently, undergraduates report that reading is valuable, yet their noncompliance with reading assignments suggests otherwise. Undergraduates report that they achieve…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Reading Attitudes, Reading Assignments, Compliance (Psychology)
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Dawson, Phillip; Sutherland-Smith, Wendy; Ricksen, Mark – Assessment & Evaluation in Higher Education, 2020
Contract cheating happens when students outsource their assessed work to a third party. One approach that has been suggested for improving contract cheating detection is comparing students' assignment submissions with their previous work, the rationale being that changes in style may indicate a piece of work has been written by somebody else. This…
Descriptors: Cheating, Identification, Accuracy, Computer Software
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