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L. Hannah; E. E. Jang; M. Shah; V. Gupta – Language Assessment Quarterly, 2023
Machines have a long-demonstrated ability to find statistical relationships between qualities of texts and surface-level linguistic indicators of writing. More recently, unlocked by artificial intelligence, the potential of using machines to identify content-related writing trait criteria has been uncovered. This development is significant,…
Descriptors: Validity, Automation, Scoring, Writing Assignments
Wolf, Joanna; Roderick, Ryan; Rooney, Andrea Francioni – Composition Studies, 2019
Despite much attention given to visual rhetoric in Composition, there is evidence that most first-year writing instructors overlook document design, both in their instruction and in the documents they produce for their students. These instructors may be underestimating the role that visually informative prose (that uses document design features…
Descriptors: Layout (Publications), Design Preferences, Freshman Composition, Writing Teachers
Exploring Instructor Perceptions of and Practices for Public Discourse in First-Year Writing Courses
Parrott, Jill; Green, Lucas; Kaiser, Jordan; Smothers, Cody; Rodgers, Sam – CEA Forum, 2019
A central objective of many writing courses is to prepare students to effectively communicate in their personal, professional, and public lives, but writing instruction can seem disconnected from contemporary societal practices that constitute civil public discourse. This project aims to explore the connections between instructors' perceptions and…
Descriptors: Writing Instruction, Freshman Composition, Writing Skills, College Faculty
Worthman, Christopher; Troiano, Beverly – Critical Studies in Education, 2019
In this article, we draw on the work of Michel Foucault to analyze one student's subject development in an expository writing classroom. James, the participant, was embarking on the project of becoming a good student, as he understood it, after struggling and leaving school previously. Drawing on interviews, classroom observations and written…
Descriptors: Expository Writing, Discourse Analysis, Adolescents, Writing Processes
Deng, Yang; Kelly, Gregory J.; Xiao, Lishi – Chemistry Education Research and Practice, 2019
This study examines scientific practices associated with scientific writing in organic chemistry in China. Although there is rapidly growing literature on the features and strategies of scientific writing, further research in this area is needed to recognize and treat scientific writing as a social endeavor to evaluate it in a more comprehensive…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Organic Chemistry, Science Instruction, Undergraduate Students
Lumpkin, Angela; Achen, Rebecca M. – Journal of Leadership Education, 2019
It is important students learn about leadership. The purpose of this study was to assess whether a leadership course for sport management graduate students led to gains in knowledge of leadership and understanding of themselves as leaders. Using quantitative (pre- and post-surveys) and qualitative (email interviews) data, this study found a…
Descriptors: Leadership Training, Graduate Students, Administrator Education, Athletics
Wijekumar, Kay; Graham, Steve; Harris, Karen R.; Lei, Pui-Wa; Barkel, Ashley; Aitken, Angelique; Ray, Amber; Houston, Julia – Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 2019
A core tenet of the model of domain learning is that learning is shaped by cognitive and motivational forces. In writing, these catalysts include learners' knowledge, motivation, strategic behaviors, and skills. This study tested this proposition at two time points (Fall and Spring) with 179 fifth-grade students (52% were girls), examining if…
Descriptors: Elementary School Students, Persuasive Discourse, Writing Skills, Writing Strategies
Brown, Rachael Eriksen; Bogiages, Christopher A. – International Journal of Science and Mathematics Education, 2019
Teachers often struggle to utilize reform-based teaching strategies in their first few years of teaching for many reasons (Ball, Thames & Phelps, Journal of Teacher Education 59, 389-407, 2008; Berlin & White, "International Journal of Science and Mathematics Education" 8, 97-115, 2010; Frykholm & Glasson, "School…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Faculty Development, Science Teachers, Mathematics Teachers
Jolley, Kym – Research-publishing.net, 2019
In this pilot study, two second year writing classes at a university in Japan completed two group writing tasks using Microsoft Word and Google Docs. After both tasks were completed, the students (N=45) completed a short survey containing Likert scale items about their preferences when writing under the different conditions. Willing individuals…
Descriptors: Student Attitudes, Writing Assignments, College Students, Writing Instruction
Pamela Shanahan Bazis; Mackenzie Savaiano; Michael Hebert; Derek B. Rodgers; Natalie Koziol – Grantee Submission, 2022
The purpose of this study was to build on the Nebraska study by conducting a national survey of Teachers of Students with Visual Impairments (TSVIs). The survey included questions about teacher preparation, beliefs about their role in supporting writing, the modes they report using with students, and the proportion of writing practices they use…
Descriptors: National Surveys, Writing Instruction, Students with Disabilities, Visual Impairments
Ramlal, Alana; Augustin, Désirée S. – Educational Action Research, 2020
Due to limited exposure to the reflective genre, students experience cognitive, psychological and linguistic issues that prevent them from producing proficient reflective pieces. This study investigated how these issues could be addressed through modelling, the 6 + 1 traits writing rubric and blended learning. The study reports on the experiences…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Secondary School Students, Writing (Composition), Reflection
Nurmikko-Fuller, Terhi; Hart, Ian E. – Educational Media International, 2020
This paper describes the process of constructive alignment of the content and assessment of a first year university course on Digital Culture. Previous iterations of the course assessed the students using only written assignments, which proved to be problematic. In 2019 the course team decided to revise the assessment tasks in order to align them…
Descriptors: College Freshmen, Alignment (Education), Performance Based Assessment, Student Evaluation
Grysko, Rebeca A.; Zygouris-Coe, Vassiliki I. – Reading Teacher, 2020
The elementary grades provide a rich context for literacy and science learning. Reading, writing, and talk support students' conceptual understanding of and engagement with science. The authors provide theoretical and research evidence to support the teaching of five instructional strategies that can facilitate literacy and science learning in…
Descriptors: Literacy Education, Teaching Methods, Science Instruction, Elementary School Students
Garcia, Antero; Levinson, Amber Maria; Gargroetzi, Emma Carene – American Educational Research Journal, 2020
This article investigates the civic writing practices of more than 11,000 students writing letters to the next president in the lead up to the 2016 U.S. election. We analyze how letter topics are associated with socioeconomic factors and reveal that 43 topics--including ones prevalent among students such as immigration, guns, and school…
Descriptors: Civics, Citizenship Education, Writing Assignments, Writing (Composition)
Boubekeur, Sihem – Arab World English Journal, 2021
The Reader-Response Theory considers the learner as an active participant in extracting meaning from a literary work depending on his/her prior experience. Teaching literature critically allows the reader to create a sense, and compare the previous experience with the written text. Second-year students cannot decode and scrutinize a short academic…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Reader Response, Literary Genres, Second Language Learning