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El Khoiri, Niamika; Widiati, Utami – Dinamika Ilmu, 2017
In argumentative writing, the presence of logical fallacy, which can be simply defined as error in reasoning, shows either illegitimate arguments or irrelevant points that will undermine the strength of a claim. Despite its significant role in determining the quality of an argument, the topic of logical fallacy has not been widely explored in the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, English (Second Language), Persuasive Discourse, Writing Assignments
Szafran, Robert F. – Practical Assessment, Research & Evaluation, 2017
Institutional assessment of student learning objectives has become a fact-of-life in American higher education and the Association of American Colleges and Universities' (AAC&U) VALUE Rubrics have become a widely adopted evaluation and scoring tool for student work. As faculty from a variety of disciplines, some less familiar with the…
Descriptors: Interrater Reliability, Case Studies, Scoring Rubrics, Behavioral Objectives
Sermsook, Kanyakorn; Liamnimitr, Jiraporn; Pochakorn, Rattaneekorn – English Language Teaching, 2017
This paper aims to provide information about teacher corrective feedback that would be helpful for EFL students' writing improvement. It focuses on feedback provided to correct grammatical errors made by student writers as the author finds that this type of errors can obstruct the effectiveness of students' pieces of writing and may result in…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Feedback (Response), Grammar
Van Havere, Timo; Wils, Kaat; Depaepe, Fien; Verschaffel, Lieven; Van Nieuwenhuyse, Karel – London Review of Education, 2017
Since the early nineteenth century, western governments have expected history education to play a vital role in the formation of a national identity and the pursuit of national cohesion, by fostering shared knowledge and a shared (master)narrative of the national past. This article reports on a qualitative study that examines which narratives…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, European History, History Instruction, Secondary Education
Dai, Ting; Kaplan, Avi; Wing, Ying; Cromley, Jennifer G.; Perez, Tony; Mara, Kyle R.; Balsai, Kyle R.; Yo – AERA Online Paper Repository, 2017
Whereas relevance-writing interventions have shown effects on students' achievement, a persistent finding is that interventions benefit students with low, but not high, outcome expectancies--a phenomenon that Schwartz et al. (2016) termed the half empty question. In the current mixed-methods study, we investigated the role of undergraduate…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, College Science, Biology, Introductory Courses
Obeso, Wilmar Salazar – Advances in Language and Literary Studies, 2019
The Problem Statement (PS) section communicates the issue that targets a study. Having a clear understanding of its rhetorical moves facilitates its communication. However, undergraduate students are not generally worried about this important writing aspect. The purpose of this descriptive study intended to explore the rhetorical moves in…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, English (Second Language)
Tolchinsky, Liliana – Journal of Literacy Research, 2019
Learning to compose texts adequate for different purposes is crucial for becoming literate. We examined developmental changes in the rhetorical structure of written texts produced by Spanish children throughout the early years of elementary school in the light of descriptive writing purposes. Children had also performed tasks to test…
Descriptors: Writing Skills, Foreign Countries, Elementary School Students, Writing Assignments
Wu, Nancy; Hall, Ariana O.; Phadke, Sameer; Zurcher, Danielle M.; Wallace, Rachel L.; Castañeda, Carol Ann; McNeil, Anne J. – Journal of Chemical Education, 2019
Introductory-level laboratory courses provide students with hands-on experience using the discipline's tools and theories. These courses often rely on recipe-based experiments due to the constraints of large enrollments, short lab periods, and the desire to minimize complexity. In addition, covering a breadth of topics can lead to a fragmented…
Descriptors: Science Instruction, Learning Strategies, Undergraduate Students, Laboratory Experiments
Holton Brathwaite, Noel – Journal of College Reading and Learning, 2019
This study explores the pedagogical effectiveness of assignments developed for a first-year composition course to encourage reflexive reading habits that can aid students in the writing process. Students in this course were asked to articulate the connections they found between multimodal texts of their own choosing and texts assigned by their…
Descriptors: Reading Instruction, Teaching Methods, Freshman Composition, Writing (Composition)
Sproule, Robert; Drewery, David; Pretti, T. Judene – Collected Essays on Learning and Teaching, 2019
Lifelong learning has emerged as an important learning outcome across the Canadian post-secondary education system. However, assessments of lifelong learning have been limited to students' self-reports, particularly questionnaires. In programs that offer work-integrated learning experiences, students' reflections may provide a window to further…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Scoring Rubrics, Lifelong Learning, Work Experience Programs
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
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
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
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
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