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Nash, Brady – English Teaching: Practice and Critique, 2018
Purpose: This paper aims to explore recent research (2007-2017) on the implementation of multimodal writing instruction in secondary English courses. It seeks to highlight the varied ways in which theoretical conceptions of multimodality have been implemented in writing instruction and the impacts of these implementations on students' experiences…
Descriptors: Writing Instruction, Secondary School Students, Teaching Methods, English Instruction
Baca, Jimmy Santiago – Teachers College Press, 2018
This curriculum-based collection of lesson plans is designed to build student confidence for articulating their unique ideas and sensibilities about the world through literary expression. For this book, Jimmy Santiago Baca, one of the foremost poets in America today, collaborates with two National Writing Project Fellows and literacy…
Descriptors: Self Expression, Intellectual Freedom, Lesson Plans, Poetry
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Sarah K. Gunning – English Journal, 2018
Writing and communication skills are important in all fields of employment. During the course of everyday life, people have to perform tasks they have never done before, or learn a technology they have never used. Most tasks are processes, and it takes some time to learn how they work. Instructions are the most common method of explaining how to…
Descriptors: Writing Instruction, Relevance (Education), Technical Writing, High School Students
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Vetter, Matthew A. – Studies in Higher Education, 2020
Research in rhetoric and writing has found that Wikipedia-based education allows for direct and transparent observation of practices and concepts related to writing process, research, social collaboration, and digital rhetoric while also providing opportunities for authentic writing situations. However, much of this literature has been focused on…
Descriptors: Rhetoric, Collaborative Writing, Web 2.0 Technologies, Writing Processes
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Hanusch, Sarah – PRIMUS, 2020
A summative portfolio is a project completed at the end of the semester that gives a student an opportunity to look at a course as a whole. This study investigates whether collegiate mathematics students gain a deeper understanding of course material through the portfolio project, via an analysis of the students' work, and a survey of students'…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Alternative Assessment, Portfolio Assessment, Summative Evaluation
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Russell, Eric J.; Russell, Jamie L.; Lindquist, Christian O., Jr.; Broomé, Rodger E.; McCarthy, Kevin P. – International Journal of Instruction, 2020
The purpose of the study was to ascertain how online asynchronous security coursework influenced learner's understandings by analyzing their end-of-course reflective writings. Following a qualitative single case study protocol, the researchers set forth to discover how a semester-long asynchronous online security course influenced students. The…
Descriptors: Reflection, Introductory Courses, Asynchronous Communication, Online Courses
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Reynders, Gil; Lantz, Juliette; Ruder, Suzanne M.; Stanford, Courtney L.; Cole, Renée S. – International Journal of STEM Education, 2020
Background: Process skills such as critical thinking and information processing are commonly stated outcomes for STEM undergraduate degree programs, but instructors often do not explicitly assess these skills in their courses. Students are more likely to develop these crucial skills if there is constructive alignment between an instructor's…
Descriptors: STEM Education, Critical Thinking, Thinking Skills, Undergraduate Students
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Tripp, Brie; Voronoff, Sophia A.; Shortlidge, Erin E. – CBE - Life Sciences Education, 2020
A desired outcome of education reform efforts is for undergraduates to effectively integrate knowledge across disciplines in order to evaluate and address real-world issues. Yet there are few assessments designed to measure if and how students think interdisciplinarily. Here, a sample of science faculty were surveyed to understand how they…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Interdisciplinary Approach, College Faculty, College Science
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Clabough, Jeremiah; Bickford, John H. – Social Studies and the Young Learner, 2020
The "College, Career, and Civil Life (C3) Framework for Social Studies State Standards" guides teachers to initiate complex inquiries by sparking students' disciplinary literacy and critical analysis of rich sources. With effective scaffolding and engaging content, elementary students can explore and contextualize complex historical…
Descriptors: Grade 4, Elementary School Students, Social Studies, Primary Sources
Obaya V., Adolfo E.; Osorio G., Carlos; Vargas, Yolanda Marina – Online Submission, 2020
Techniques are needed to train students in "writing to learn", whose main goal is to "learn to write". This work aims to exemplify how writing can be a teaching learning technique in an example in Chemistry to develop a correct understanding of the preparation of molar solutions in the laboratory. It is essential that this is…
Descriptors: Content Area Writing, Science Instruction, Chemistry, Science Laboratories
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Fong, Carlton J.; Schallert, Diane L.; Williams, Kyle M.; Williamson, Zachary H.; Lin, Shengjie; Kim, Young Won; Chen, Ling-Hui – Educational Psychology, 2021
Providing constructive feedback is complex due to the interplay of emotional and motivational processes students experience when receiving such feedback. In the present study, we investigated constitutive elements of what would make feedback perceived to be constructive, and whether students' mastery approach goal orientation and writing…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Student Motivation, Feedback (Response), Mastery Learning
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Danielewicz, Jane; Jack, Jordynn; Hall, Ashley; Singer, Sarah Ann; Stuemke, Emi; Ware, Jennifer – Composition Forum, 2021
As WPAs at a research institution without a WAC program, we embarked on this project to learn about the types of writing prompts faculty across the disciplines assign and their expectations for student writing. Although our first-year composition program is genre-based and focuses on teaching for transfer, we did not know what genres other faculty…
Descriptors: Writing Assignments, Writing Instruction, Writing Across the Curriculum, College Faculty
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Ruder, Phil – Journal of Economic Education, 2021
The author of this article describes individual pre-class and group in-class assignments based on current news articles. Guided student pre-class readings of periodical articles can form the basis for engaging in-class group assignments. Many economics instructors seek to develop student skills at applying the concepts under study to analyze…
Descriptors: Reading Materials, Group Activities, Current Events, News Media
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Pribadi, Benny Agus; Susilana, Rudi – European Journal of Educational Research, 2021
The study is intended to expose mind mapping used as strategy for learning which is able to assist students to write their writing assignments. Thirty students who registered in the Teacher Qualification Improvement Program of Universitas Terbuka (UT) was involved as the participants in this present study. The participants had to follow the…
Descriptors: Concept Mapping, Teaching Methods, Instructional Effectiveness, Learning Strategies
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Sadruddin, Munir Moosa – Journal of Education and Educational Development, 2021
The phenomenological case study aimed to unearth the reasons that influence university students to plagiarize assignments. 67 participants were selected for semi-structured interviews, from the Faculty of Education of a public university, located in Karachi, Pakistan. The obtained data were analyzed through thematic analysis. Findings uncovered…
Descriptors: Plagiarism, Case Studies, Phenomenology, Student Attitudes
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