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Pilkington, Olga A. – Journal of Educational Technology Systems, 2018
Active learning and online education have become important aspects of knowledge delivery. Nevertheless, little research exists on how active learning techniques can be implemented in an online environment. Deliberate equivalence of methods and materials for onsite and online delivery mechanisms is often seen as a strong point in favor of a…
Descriptors: Active Learning, Online Courses, Writing (Composition), Writing Instruction
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Banaruee, Hassan; Khatin-Zadeh, Omid; Ruegg, Rachael – Cogent Education, 2018
There might always be errors during the learning process which need correction; accordingly, providing corrective feedback is critical. However, the various types of feedback applied during classes affect the learning and teaching process. Teaching and learning could be applied within EFL classes by providing learners with recasts. Recasts have…
Descriptors: Feedback (Response), English (Second Language), English Language Learners, High School Students
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Gilman, Denise; Farrow, Shannon; Hartman, Danielle – Scholarship and Practice of Undergraduate Research, 2018
For 12 years, Denise Gillman has taught the course Science on the Stage at Christopher Newport University in Newport News, Virginia. The plays studied awaken intellectual curiosity and understanding of human nature and complex scientific ideas within the framework of a good story and can do so for students of every major. This article presents how…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Science Instruction, Drama, Higher Education
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Day, Indira N. Z.; van Blankenstein, Floris M.; Westenberg, Michiel; Admiraal, Wilfried – Assessment & Evaluation in Higher Education, 2018
In-course assessment, such as midterms, quizzes or presentations, is often an integral part of higher education courses. These so-called intermediate assessments influence students' final grades. The current review investigates which characteristics of intermediate assessment relate to these grades. In total, 88 articles were reviewed that…
Descriptors: Correlation, Foreign Countries, Grades (Scholastic), Formative Evaluation
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Loewe, Drew M. – Composition Studies, 2018
Writing and Rhetoric 3326: Legal Writing is an introduction to legal analysis and writing. It is offered at St. Edward's University in Austin, Texas, a Holy Cross liberal arts university of approximately 4,300 students, mostly undergraduates. This course focuses on applied rhetoric, and is designed to give undergraduate students experience in…
Descriptors: Rhetoric, Undergraduate Students, Student Experience, Writing Strategies
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Miles, Katharine Pace; Craigo, Leslie; Gonzalez-Frey, Selenid – Higher Learning Research Communications, 2018
To provide a snapshot of the skills of community college students as compared to senior college students in the United States, this exploratory study investigated the writing performance and college experience of initial 2-year enrolled (community college transfer students, n = 17) versus initial 4-year enrolled students (n = 12) in a teacher…
Descriptors: Preservice Teachers, College Transfer Students, Community Colleges, Writing Achievement
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Sylvan, Lesley J. – College Teaching, 2018
Engaging students in completing assigned reading material, particularly textbooks, is a challenge faced by many college professors. Further, research has demonstrated student compliance is typically low with reading course textbooks. This study explores the impact of assigning content-specific books written for popular audiences and having…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Learner Engagement, Reading Strategies, Books
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Garner, Benjamin; Shank, Nathan – Business and Professional Communication Quarterly, 2018
Effective writing is a soft skill that is highly in demand in today's workforce. This qualitative study examines student perceptions of a revise and resubmit policy aimed at increasing student engagement with an instructor's writing feedback and ultimately improving students' writing skills. Students across three business communication courses…
Descriptors: Student Attitudes, Revision (Written Composition), Writing Assignments, Feedback (Response)
Kelly, Morgan R. – ProQuest LLC, 2018
Federal and state mandates for public education have a long history of changes that have occurred over the past thirty-four years since the publication of "A Nation at Risk" in 1983. Since then, educators have continued to raise student achievement levels to meet the growing demand to compete in a global society. Research has shown the…
Descriptors: Teacher Student Relationship, Feedback (Response), Grade 4, Grade 5
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Wood, Carla L.; Bustamante, Kristina N.; Schatschneider, Christopher; Hart, Sara – Assessment for Effective Intervention, 2019
The purpose of this study was to examine construct validity of methods of calculating lexical diversity in written narrative samples relative to children's performance on a reading vocabulary measure. For 234 children in first to fifth grade, written narratives were examined and compared between grades for number of different words (NDW), total…
Descriptors: Reading Tests, Construct Validity, Elementary School Students, Correlation
Cordell, Michael D. – ProQuest LLC, 2019
The purpose of this study was to examine how students used the elements of a historical argument to interpret how equality and opportunity affected marginalized groups in a given historical era. To do this, 150 eighth grade students wrote thirteen historical arguments, and submitted a written portfolio of their work at the end of the school year.…
Descriptors: History Instruction, United States History, Persuasive Discourse, Grade 8
Bambrick-Santoyo, Paul – Educational Leadership, 2016
Write first, talk second--it's a simple strategy, but one that's underused in literature classes, writes Paul Bambrick-Santoyo. The author describes a lesson on Shakespeare's Sonnet 65 conducted by a middle school English teacher, who incorporates writing as an important precursor to classroom discussion. By having students write about the poem…
Descriptors: Classics (Literature), Middle School Teachers, Language Arts, Writing Assignments
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Gibson, Andrew; Kitto, Kirsty; Bruza, Peter – Journal of Learning Analytics, 2016
Modern society demands renewed attention on the competencies required to best equip students for a dynamic and uncertain future. We present exploratory work based on the premise that metacognitive and reflective competencies are essential for this task. Bringing the concepts of metacognition and reflection together into a conceptual model within…
Descriptors: Metacognition, Reflection, Writing Assignments, Undergraduate Students
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Saulnier, Bruce – Information Systems Education Journal, 2016
To more effectively meet the expectations of industry for entry-level IT employees, a case is made for the inclusion of writing throughout the Computer Information Systems (CIS) curriculum. "Writing Across the Curriculum" ("WAC") principles are explained, and it is opined that both Writing to Learn (WTL) and Writing in the…
Descriptors: Writing Across the Curriculum, Computer Science Education, Systems Analysis, Information Systems
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Bergstrom, Tait – Composition Forum, 2021
This case study of students enrolled in a composition course at a large public university examines multilingual students' application of multimodal composition practices to writing assignments that emphasize delivery and circulation. Assignments in which students remediate or translate a text in one genre or medium into another are widely used to…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Writing Instruction, State Universities, Multilingualism
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