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Vetter, Matthew A. – Composition Studies, 2014
Research across disciplines in recent years has demonstrated a number of gains involved in community engagement and service-learning pedagogies. More recently, these pedagogies are being filtered into digital contexts as instructors begin to realize the opportunities made available by online writing venues. This presentation describes a specific…
Descriptors: Writing (Composition), Academic Libraries, Computer Uses in Education, Encyclopedias
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Kebede, Alem – Teaching Sociology, 2009
Sociological imagination is a quality of mind that cannot be adopted by simply teaching students its discursive assumptions. Rather, it is a disposition, in competition with other forms of sensibility, which can be acquired only when it is practiced. Adhering to this important pedagogical assumption, students were assigned to write their…
Descriptors: Social History, Imagination, Autobiographies, Sociology
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Boysen, Guy A. – Teaching of Psychology, 2010
Theories and research related to the unconscious can be found in every area of psychology, but there is no course devoted to the topic in the undergraduate curriculum. A capstone course on the unconscious is described. The course integrates topics across the major fields of psychology. Themes in the course include the existence of mental processes…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Study, Psychology, Course Content, Theories
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Clump, Michael A.; Sandoval, Melanie – Journal of Instructional Psychology, 2010
We examined the correlations between students' scores on the "Inventory of Learning Processes" (Schmeck, Ribich, & Ramanaiah, 1977) and on the different assessments in a cognitive psychology course (and the total points). We determined that many of the assessments evaluated the type of learning the instructor wanted the students to…
Descriptors: Cognitive Psychology, Learning Processes, Assignments, Teacher Effectiveness
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Kurtyka, Faith – Teaching English in the Two-Year College, 2010
In "Funds of Knowledge: Theorizing Practices in Households, Communities, and Classrooms" (Gonzalez, Moll, and Amanti x), a group of K-12 educators conducted ethnographic work on the home lives of their working-class students. With the premise that people are "competent, they have knowledge and their life experiences have given them…
Descriptors: Social Justice, Academic Discourse, Student Experience, Freshman Composition
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Hawthorn-Embree, Meredith L.; Skinner, Christopher H.; Parkhurst, John; O'Neil, Michael; Conley, Elisha – School Psychology Quarterly, 2010
Academic skill development requires engagement in effortful academic behaviors. Although students may be more likely to choose to engage in behaviors that require less effort, they also may be motivated to complete assignments that they have already begun. Seventh-grade students (N = 88) began a mathematics computation worksheet, but were stopped…
Descriptors: Mathematics Instruction, Grade 7, Skill Development, Student Motivation
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Deunk, Marjolein; Berenst, Jan; de Glopper, Kees – Linguistics and Education: An International Research Journal, 2010
We describe the Situated Activity System of finishing craft assignments in preschool: the specific, routinized way that child and teacher jointly close the child's craft assignment, employing a specific discourse pattern. We analyzed the interactions of 14 Dutch children between 2.1 and 3.10 years old while they were finishing their craft…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Preschool Children, Handicrafts, Class Activities
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Ackerman, David S.; Gross, Barbara L. – Journal of Marketing Education, 2010
Marketing students expect feedback on papers and assignments; and many professors expend much time and effort providing individualized and substantive comments in response to student work. Doing so is challenging and time consuming when faced with large class sizes, high student-faculty ratios, and communications-intensive courses. Furthermore,…
Descriptors: Business Administration Education, Marketing, Undergraduate Students, Assignments
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Welch, Kristen Dayle – English Journal, 2010
As a man of mystery, little is known about Titus Lucretius except that he was a 1st-century B.C.E. philosopher-poet who wrote an epic poem called "Of the Nature of Things" to explain the universe and people's place within it in strictly material terms. In the poem, Lucretius intertwines myths with scientific hypotheses to propose an Epicurean view…
Descriptors: Technical Writing, Creativity, Guides, Writing Instruction
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Ballard, Kristy K.; McBride, Ron – Physical Educator, 2010
From Dewey (1933) to present, reflectivity is an important component of teacher education. Little information exists that specifically addresses when changes in reflectivity might occur. Therefore, the purpose of this study was: (a) to apply Van Manen's model to outcomes to examine levels of, and changes in, reflectivity and (b) to verify the…
Descriptors: Reflective Teaching, Change, Models, Student Teachers
Neves, Jonathan; Hillman, Nick – Higher Education Academy, 2017
Since 2006 (with the exception of 2013), the "Student Academic Experience Survey" has been designed and developed in partnership between the Higher Education Policy Institute and the Higher Education Academy (HEPI-HEA). The Survey has become one of the major surveys within the UK higher education landscape, providing insight into how…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Student Surveys, National Surveys, Higher Education
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Niles, Thaddeus M. – Teaching English with Technology, 2013
Course management software (CMS) allows teachers to deliver content electronically and manage collaborative coursework, either blending with face-to-face interactions or as the core of an entirely virtual classroom environment. CMS often takes the form of an electronic storehouse of course materials with which students can interact, a virtual…
Descriptors: Management Systems, Teaching Methods, Computer Software, Professional Autonomy
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Albaugh, Brittany M. – Networks: An Online Journal for Teacher Research, 2013
The purpose of this research was to investigate how the use of blogging in the language arts classroom influences student communication about independent reading novels. I was motivated to do this study by witnessing the enthusiasm with which my students discussed technology as well as their eagerness to use those resources to create…
Descriptors: Electronic Publishing, Diaries, Language Arts, Computer Mediated Communication
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Correll, N.; Wing, R.; Coleman, D. – IEEE Transactions on Education, 2013
This paper describes a one-year introductory robotics course sequence focusing on computational aspects of robotics for third- and fourth-year students. The key challenges this curriculum addresses are "scalability," i.e., how to teach a robotics class with a limited amount of hardware to a large audience, "student assessment,"…
Descriptors: Introductory Courses, Robotics, Course Descriptions, Simulation
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Arslan, Recep Sahin – Turkish Online Journal of Educational Technology - TOJET, 2013
The purpose of this study is to investigate the effect of blogging and portfolio keeping on a group of pre-service teachers' writing skill in a compulsory writing course at a tertiary level English language teaching (ELT) programme in Turkey. The study specifically looked into to what extent receiving feedback from course instructor and peers…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Preservice Teachers, Electronic Publishing, Web Sites
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