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Kilgore, Christopher D.; Cronley, Courtney – Teaching in Higher Education, 2021
In the US, supplemental writing resources have played a strong role in higher education, emphasizing nondirective peer tutoring, but recent initiatives have developed discipline-specific teaching-oriented resources, which have yet to be adequately analyzed. The present study analyzes data on student use of one such service (N = 2,353 appointments…
Descriptors: Supplementary Education, Academic Support Services, Writing Assignments, Content Area Writing
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Harris, Heidi S.; Greer, Michael – Journal of Technical Writing and Communication, 2021
Teaching and composing with multimedia humanizes online technical writing and communication classes. However, students do not always see the connection between multimedia instructional materials, multimedia assignments, and the course learning outcomes. Purposeful pedagogy-driven course design uses multimedia instructional materials to connect…
Descriptors: Multimedia Instruction, Multimedia Materials, Electronic Learning, Distance Education
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Chong, Sin Wang – Language Education & Assessment, 2019
In the past decade (2007-2017), research on written corrective feedback (WCF) has been proliferating in English-as-a-Second-Language (ESL) and English-as-a-Foreign-Language (EFL) contexts, and new developments in this field of research are evident. To synthesize the latest advancement in WCF research, a systematic review of recent literature on…
Descriptors: Educational Research, Research Design, Writing Assignments, Error Correction
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Raza, Kashif – Language Teaching Research Quarterly, 2019
Despite vast research into the effectiveness of teacher corrective feedback (TCF) in second language writing, little is known about its influence on students' motivation in different contexts and settings. Where teachers complain about their students not responding to their feedback, students do not always find teacher feedback helpful and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Feedback (Response), Second Language Instruction, English (Second Language)
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Moreira, Patricia; Marzabal, Ainoa; Talanquer, Vicente – Chemistry Education Research and Practice, 2019
Understanding how chemistry teachers' interventions shape the reasoning that students express after a lesson is critical to support prospective and in-service teachers as they work with students' ideas in the classroom. In this qualitative research study, we analysed changes in the reasoning expressed by 10th grade students in a Chilean school in…
Descriptors: Science Instruction, Chemistry, Grade 10, Foreign Countries
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Cummings, Ryan D. – Social Studies, 2019
The typical U.S. history curriculum does not ask students to think about justice. While ignoring injustice may reduce controversy in the classroom, critically thinking about justice engages students and prepares them to be citizens in an often contentious democracy. This article proposes five characteristics of history curricula that support…
Descriptors: Critical Thinking, Social Justice, History Instruction, United States History
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Raymond, Rich – CEA Forum, 2019
To challenge resistance to required literature courses, instructors quiz students regularly on the readings; they also require examinations that ask students to define key terms, to answer background questions focused on authors and dates, to identify key passages by author/title/speaker, and to explain the thematic significance of each quotation.…
Descriptors: English Instruction, English Literature, College English, Teaching Methods
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Rashtchi, Mojgan – Asian-Pacific Journal of Second and Foreign Language Education, 2019
The variety of activities and techniques suggested for improving the writing skill shows that EFL/ESL learners need scaffolding to gain mastery over it. The present study employed the reader-response approach to provide the assistance EFL learners require for writing argumentative essays. Five upper-intermediate EFL learners in a private class…
Descriptors: Essays, English (Second Language), Second Language Instruction, Reader Response
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Liu, Shu-Chiu – International Journal of Science Education, 2019
Futures thinking, or foresight, is increasingly recognised as a key element in science and environmental education. We integrated a futures thinking activity into an undergraduate general science course in Taiwan by using an online thinking and discussion tool that provides scaffolding questions to help students think systematically about future…
Descriptors: Genetics, Biotechnology, Food, College Students
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Law, Sweety – Higher Education Studies, 2019
Employers have continually indicated that writing instruction is much needed in higher education across all majors. It has become more imperative now than before to better prepare our graduates for professional success in an age of increasing writing necessity, data analytics and reporting, and technical sophistication. Writing assessment in a…
Descriptors: Student Evaluation, Writing Evaluation, Evaluation Methods, Educational Technology
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Schmidt-McCormack, Jennifer A.; Judge, Jessyca A.; Spahr, Kellie; Yang, Ellen; Pugh, Raymond; Karlin, Ashley; Sattar, Atia; Thompson, Barry C.; Gere, Anne Ruggles; Shultz, Ginger V. – Chemistry Education Research and Practice, 2019
Acid-base chemistry is a foundational topic that is taught in courses across the chemistry curriculum. Students often have difficulty distinguishing between the different theories of acid-base chemistry--Brønsted-Lowry and Lewis acid-base chemistry--and applying these two definitions correctly in unfamiliar scenarios. To help students learn these…
Descriptors: Organic Chemistry, Science Education, Writing Assignments, Scientific Concepts
Richard Samuelson – ProQuest LLC, 2020
Research exploring the efficacy of Service-Learning hasn't fully investigated potential implications for online modalities and transfer of learning. Therefore, during Fall 2016 and Spring 2017 semesters I taught two second-semester composition courses built around essays that required students to engage with communities outside the classroom.…
Descriptors: School Community Relationship, In Person Learning, Electronic Learning, Distance Education
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Kumar, Rita; Refaei, Brenda – Interdisciplinary Journal of Problem-based Learning, 2017
Convinced of the power of PBL to promote students' critical thinking as demonstrated by its application across disciplines, we designed a series of problems for students in a second-year writing course. We collected samples of their writing before and after implementation of the problems. We were concerned about whether PBL pedagogy would…
Descriptors: Problem Based Learning, Critical Thinking, Writing Instruction, Instructional Effectiveness
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Zou, Di; Xie, Haoran; Rao, Yanghui; Wong, Tak-Lam; Wang, Fu Lee; Wu, Qingyuan – International Journal of Distance Education Technologies, 2017
The world has encountered and witnessed the great popularity of various emerging e-learning resources such as massive open online courses (MOOCs), textbooks and videos with the development of the big data era. It is critical to understand the characteristics of users to assist them to find desired and relevant learning resources in such a large…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Vocabulary Development, Predictor Variables, Prior Learning
Bambrick-Santoyo, Paul; Chiger, Stephen – Educational Leadership, 2017
Part of helping students learn to read critically and with comprehension is guiding them to use writing to help think through the content and clarify what they understand--or don't. Looking at students' writing also helps teachers see how much learners are really understanding in their reading and where exactly any learner is struggling. After…
Descriptors: Reading Comprehension, Writing (Composition), Teaching Methods, Figurative Language
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