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Stouck, Jordan – Canadian Journal for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning, 2019
This paper describes a pilot blended learning format for a first-year genre-based Canadian composition course. It measures responses to the online learning materials and hybrid class schedule by comparing student writing skill perception questionnaires, teaching evaluation questionnaires, and written assignments for control and experimental…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Blended Learning, Freshman Composition, College Freshmen
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Casler-Failing, Shelli L. – Proceedings of the Interdisciplinary STEM Teaching and Learning Conference, 2018
This paper describes a unit designed to promote the development of narrative writing skills among 5th grade students through the use of LEGO robotics. Over the course of four, two and one-half hour sessions (one day per week for four consecutive weeks), the students learned how to construct and program robots, write and present a proposal to…
Descriptors: Robotics, Technology Integration, Elementary School Students, Grade 5
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Atkinson, Tim – Journal of Leadership Education, 2018
This application brief covers, "The Final Question," an alternative essay design that encourages the learner to think creatively in Ph.D. Organization Theory or Leadership courses. "The Final Question" asks, "Do leaders change organizations or do organizations change leaders?" It is a simple question, but only the…
Descriptors: Leadership Training, Essays, Writing Assignments, Creative Writing
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O'Neill, Kathryn S. – Research in Higher Education Journal, 2018
University educators everywhere are trying to assist students in improving their ability to write clear and correct business English. Business communication texts, in general, use several decades of research that have established a three-stage process: prewriting, writing, and rewriting (Collins & Parkhurst, 1996). Identifying and correcting…
Descriptors: Error Correction, Grammar, Business Communication, Business English
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Tucker, Shawn R. – InSight: A Journal of Scholarly Teaching, 2018
As recent scholarship emphasizes the value of social learning, this article describes a course redesign that sought to encourage such social learning. This multi-year course redesign includes altering a daily writing assignment to make it more specific and to make it a contribution to the learning of a study group. Data was collected and evaluated…
Descriptors: Social Development, Writing Assignments, Communities of Practice, Groups
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Cox, Charles T., Jr.; Poehlmann, Jennifer Schwartz; Ortega, Caitlin; Lopez, Julio C. – Journal of Chemical Education, 2018
Problem solving and critical thinking are buzzwords used in defining general chemistry learning goals. Assessments including well-structured homework, quizzes, and exams are designed and incorporated to build these skills. Our research expanded upon the types of assessments and analyzed the effect of writing assignments for promoting problem…
Descriptors: Problem Solving, Critical Thinking, Chemistry, Science Instruction
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Peter Wayne Moe – College Composition and Communication, 2018
Epideictic rhetoric reifies and reshapes the shared values of a community, and in this article, I reread William E. Coles Jr.'s "The Plural I" as showing forth a classroom built upon epideictic rhetoric, his own epideictic pedagogy asking that teachers of writing engage student work not expecting to be persuaded but as observers of…
Descriptors: Writing Instruction, Writing Teachers, Teacher Expectations of Students, Rhetoric
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Koerner, Morgan – Unterrichtspraxis/Teaching German, 2016
This article explores the potential of Brecht's theater praxis for teaching millennial students to question dramatic narratives and rethink their own spectatorial positions, especially in regards to mainstream cinema that emphasizes character identification and plot. The article reflects on a five-day teaching unit on Brecht's theater in a senior…
Descriptors: German, Second Language Instruction, Praxis, Aesthetics
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Johnson, Paul E.; Perrin, Christopher J.; Salo, Allen; Deschaine, Elyssa; Johnson, Beth – Journal of Applied Behavior Analysis, 2016
The procrastination behavior of students from a small rural university was decreased by presenting them with a rule indicating that a sooner final due date for a writing assignment would be contingent on procrastination during earlier phases of the paper. A counterbalanced AB BA design was used to measure the effects of the rule-based treatment…
Descriptors: Rural Schools, College Students, Student Behavior, Standards
Yildiz, Ali – Online Submission, 2016
The present study was conducted to analyze the understanding level of the prospective teachers studying in the second grade of elementary mathematics undergraduate program, on the topic of electric charge which is taught in compulsory Physics II. Totally 45 prospective teachers, 36 women and 9 men, have participated the study. The data of the…
Descriptors: Preservice Teachers, Undergraduate Students, Knowledge Level, Physics
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Roberts, Amy M.; LoCasale-Crouch, Jennifer; Hamre, Bridget K.; Jamil, Faiza M. – Journal of Early Childhood Teacher Education, 2020
This mixed methods study examines the impact of online professional development on preschool teachers' self-efficacy, burnout, and stress. Participating teachers (n = 89) were randomly assigned into four groups: one of three treatment conditions (course-only, conference, reflective writing) or a control group. All treatment conditions received a…
Descriptors: Preschool Teachers, Self Efficacy, Teacher Burnout, Stress Variables
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Gallagher, Jamey – Journal of College Reading and Learning, 2020
This article argues that writing teachers should allow, and even encourage, students to code-mesh in community college classrooms. By looking at and analyzing code-meshed writing produced by three students in an English 101 class, the author argues that code-meshing provides students with both a craft-wise approach to writing and a way to address…
Descriptors: Code Switching (Language), Community Colleges, Writing Instruction, Writing Teachers
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Lee, Sangmin-Michelle – ReCALL, 2019
This qualitative study investigates a media transfer project in which a digital game was used to promote student creativity in an English as a foreign language (EFL) class. The paper first addresses the potential of opportunities for stimulating student creativity and motivation. Creativity has been highlighted as a core competency and has…
Descriptors: Video Games, Educational Technology, Technology Uses in Education, Creativity
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Peters, Martine; Cadieux, Alain – International Journal for Educational Integrity, 2019
When writing an assignment, most students start by searching for information online, which they integrate in their writing and conclude by producing a bibliography for the sources used. They use their informational, writing and referencing skills to do this as well as refer to their plagiarism knowledge to make sure their text is exempt from…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, College Faculty, Teaching Methods, Writing Instruction
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Modiano, Yosefa; Bonanome, Marianna – Psychology Teaching Review, 2019
Psychology ranks fourth on the list of most common undergraduate majors and is increasing in popularity (McFarland, 2018). The most recent American Psychological Association (APA) guidelines for the undergraduate psychology major list scientific inquiry among its most important goals. In order to demonstrate literacy in psychological science, the…
Descriptors: Introductory Courses, Psychology, Majors (Students), Statistics
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