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Bickford, John H. – History Teacher, 2021
Young children can engage in close reading, critical thinking, and historical thinking when age-appropriate texts are coupled with discipline-specific tasks. Prior knowledge is an impediment, though. Primary elementary learners simply do not have much of a historical schema. Because of primary elementary students' familiarity with Thanksgiving,…
Descriptors: Grade 5, Elementary School Students, United States History, Social Studies
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Medway, Dominic; Roper, Stuart; Gillooly, Leah – British Educational Research Journal, 2018
Contract cheating is currently a concern for universities and the higher education (HE) sector. It has been brought into the spotlight in recent years through the growth of online essay mills, where students can easily commission and purchase written assessment responses. This study contributes to the wider literature on academic integrity in HE…
Descriptors: Cheating, Contracts, College Students, Higher Education
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Figueroa, Javiera; Meneses, Alejandra; Chandia, Eugenio – Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 2018
Writing is a task that entails high cognitive and linguistic efforts, especially when producing academic texts. Academic language might be one of the factors influencing the quality of written texts, given that prior research has shown its impact on reading comprehension. The purpose of this study is to examine the contribution of Spanish Core…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Writing (Composition), Spanish, Language Skills
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Rosheim, Kay Carpenter – Journal of Adolescent & Adult Literacy, 2018
Students who are quiet while reflecting on information before sharing their thoughts are often mistakenly judged as not participating in class. To better understand how quiet students navigated the space of a Midwestern U.S. suburban classroom, a yearlong action research study was conducted to learn more about student needs and test how adapting…
Descriptors: Student Participation, Action Research, Longitudinal Studies, Student Needs
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Crawford, Pam; Moseley, Daniel; Nancarrow, Mike; Ward, Erika – PRIMUS, 2018
One of the greatest challenges facing students new to calculus is the ability to persevere in the face of failure. Whether the student is choosing an integration technique or a series test, calculus is often the first course in mathematics where the path to the solution is not prescribed in an algorithmic way. At Jacksonville University we…
Descriptors: Calculus, Mathematics Instruction, Teaching Methods, Active Learning
Muhyidin, Asep; Juansah, Dase Erwin; Ediwarman; Hamdiyah, Aisyah – Online Submission, 2018
This research focused on the ability of writing argumentative text correlate to writing motivation and grammatical competence. This research used survey method through correlational study. It was conducted on the students of grade X in SMA Negeri 3 Serang in academic year 2016/2017 using simple random sampling technique. The data collection in…
Descriptors: Persuasive Discourse, Secondary School Students, Writing Assignments, Writing (Composition)
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Victoria Johnston Boecherer – English Journal, 2018
Thomas Nunnally equates five-paragraph format essays with square cucumbers found at farmer's markets: they have an established structure but no argument. The real square cucumbers are students who need a formula to write competently. By providing students with a real audience, a teacher can show that he or she takes students' desires -- and…
Descriptors: Personal Autonomy, Self Esteem, Writing Instruction, Essays
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Roose, Tamara Mae; Newell, George E. – ELT Journal, 2020
This preliminary study explores how international students bring their cultural knowledge and experiences into relationship with other writers' ideas as they engage in an online discussion in response to a news text. This article focuses on a language excerpt from an online discussion group, including the assignment prompt, reading text, student…
Descriptors: Academic Language, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
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Lehmann, Thomas; Pirnay-Dummer, Pablo; Schmidt-Borcherding, Florian – Educational Technology Research and Development, 2020
Recent research on expert teachers suggests that an integrated understanding across the core domains of teachers' knowledge is crucial for their professional competence. However, in initial teacher education pre-service teachers seem to struggle with the integration of knowledge represented in multiple domain-specific sources into a coherent…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Pedagogical Content Knowledge, Knowledge Base for Teaching, Preservice Teacher Education
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Elsie Lindy Olan; Julie A. Pantano – English Journal, 2020
In this article, the authors explore multimodal literacies and how they use literacy contracts and quadrants to help students to examine their identities via writing and the creative arts. A notable outcome of their joint efforts is that when teachers and students transacted with multimodal literacies, they showed value for their personal and…
Descriptors: Self Concept, Student Attitudes, Multiple Literacies, Creative Writing
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Haim, Orly – Intercultural Education, 2019
This study explored how 60 trilingual immigrant youth interpret and make sense of their educational experiences in Israeli schools. Conceptualizing the language knowledge of multilingual individuals as one unitary system, the study is based on the assumption that a fuller understanding of students' educational experiences can be obtained by…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational Experience, Student Experience, Multilingualism
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Vannatta, Rachel; Steen, Sam – Journal for Specialists in Group Work, 2019
The authors use qualitative content analysis to examine common pedagogical practices in master's level group counseling classes. The results suggest a focus on knowledge rather than skill outcomes, an emphasis on experiential and didactic methods of instruction, and a heavy emphasis on written assignments as the evaluation method. Implications for…
Descriptors: Counselor Training, Accreditation (Institutions), Group Counseling, Masters Programs
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Balbay, Seher; Kilis, Selcan – Contemporary Educational Technology, 2019
This cross-sectional survey study investigates students' perceptions of the effectiveness of Turnitin in detecting plagiarism in academic presentation slides. The data was collected online from 311 students studying at a prominent English-medium instruction university in Turkey. The findings indicated that more than half of them believed in the…
Descriptors: Program Effectiveness, Foreign Countries, Computer Software, Plagiarism
Stuart, Latazia – ProQuest LLC, 2019
This applied dissertation was designed to understand and explore common faculty perceptions of why some faculty engage their online healthcare graduate students who are deficient in writing skills to improve and what interventions they used. This study utilized a case study qualitative approach to collect and analyze the data. This study explored…
Descriptors: Graduate School Faculty, Teacher Attitudes, Electronic Learning, Allied Health Occupations Education
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Laura Aull; Madison Moseley – English Journal, 2019
The authors designed an assignment for a writing class for late-secondary and early-college students, one with a central goal of giving students the opportunity to engage with a controversial topic by identifying and representing views other than their own. The authors called it a "not my opinion" assignment, and they piloted it in a…
Descriptors: Writing Assignments, Learner Engagement, Cooperative Learning, Controversial Issues (Course Content)
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