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Rezaei, Ali R. – Journal of Education and Learning, 2018
The goal of this research study was to find what makes groupwork to be successful. We asked faculty why they give groupwork assignments to their students and what their opinions about the best practices in creating effective groupwork environment for their students are. It was also intended to compare instructors' opinions with research findings…
Descriptors: Group Activities, Teamwork, Group Discussion, Teacher Attitudes
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Thaiss, Chris; Moloney, Kara; Chaozon-Bauer, Pearl – Across the Disciplines, 2016
First-Year Seminars (FYS) are among the high-impact practices described by AAC&U. We studied the long-standing First-Year Seminar Program at our public research university for the ways in which writing assignments--individualized for each seminar--help faculty and students achieve program objectives in critical and analytical thinking, the…
Descriptors: First Year Seminars, College Freshmen, Writing (Composition), State Universities
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Malik, Kinza; Martinez, Nylvia; Romero, Juan; Schubel, Skyler; Janowicz, Philip A. – Journal of Chemical Education, 2014
Connect for organic chemistry is an online learning tool that gives students the opportunity to learn about all aspects of organic chemistry through the ease of the digital world. This research project consisted of two fundamental questions. The first was to discover whether there was a difference in undergraduate organic chemistry content…
Descriptors: Organic Chemistry, Intermode Differences, Homework, Assignments
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Leopold, Lisa – CATESOL Journal, 2011
This case study of an adjunct-model English for Academic Purposes (EAP) writing course linked to a policy-analysis course describes an effective approach for putting "specificity" into practice in EAP curriculum design. The rationale for interdisciplinary collaboration, the positive learning outcomes from the EAP writing course, the…
Descriptors: English for Academic Purposes, Writing Instruction, Content Area Writing, Literary Genres
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Vasconcelos, Ricardo – CALICO Journal, 2012
This study examines student preferences and behavior when navigating online multimedia modules dedicated to teaching cultural aspects associated with an L2, and the contribution of the online multimedia format of the modules to raising interest in these cultural topics. It focuses on student options regarding reading texts on the modules' main…
Descriptors: Video Technology, Multimedia Materials, Multimedia Instruction, Web Sites
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Farmer, Yvette – Assessment Update, 2005
One of the author's first assessment experiences at California State University, Sacramento, began when she was assigned to teach a graduate-level program evaluation research course in the Division of Criminal Justice. The chair of the assessment committee and the division chair approached her with the idea of conducting an assessment of the…
Descriptors: Graduate Students, Evaluation Research, Program Evaluation, Research Projects