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Rudge, Lucila T. – Journal of the International Society for Teacher Education, 2015
With the dramatic rise of diversity in American schools, the need to prepare teachers to work with this population, and the increasing popularity of online instruction, teacher educators and researchers need to pay greater attention to the effects of online instruction. This study examines and compares the impact of a critical multicultural…
Descriptors: Multicultural Education, Student Diversity, Educational Technology, Technology Uses in Education
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Reddan, Gregory – Asia-Pacific Journal of Cooperative Education, 2017
The notion of employability is gaining importance as an essential outcome of many degrees in institutions of higher education throughout Australia. This paper aims to determine the effects of an Exercise Science course, which includes elements of both career development learning and work-integrated learning, on six dimensions of employability -…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Employment Potential, Undergraduate Students, Exercise
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Moreillon, Judi; Kimmel, Sue; Gavigan, Karen – School Library Research, 2014
In "Empowering Learners: Guidelines for School Library Programs" (2009), the American Association of School Librarians (AASL) identified the instructional partner role of school librarians as the most critical role for the future of the profession. To determine the extent to which school librarian preparation programs prepare pre-service…
Descriptors: Librarians, Library Education, Partnerships in Education, Librarian Teacher Cooperation
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Rosenbluh, Ilana Finefter; Court, Deborah – Curriculum and Teaching, 2014
One of the overarching goals of education is the development of intellectual abilities (IA). Yet, there are not enough tools to identify pedagogies that maximize students' IA. In this research, we consider the way teachers' reinforcing of versatility of opinions (pluralism) vs. teachers encouraging community views (communalism) has on developing…
Descriptors: High School Students, Case Studies, Intellectual Development, Interviews
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Thonney, Teresa; Montgomery, Joe C. – Journal of the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning, 2015
This article relates the efforts of faculty at one community college to define standards for achievement of two SLOs (critical thinking and effective communication) and to gather and analyze evidence of how well students meet those standards. Faculty from 13 disciplines assessed writing samples from 265 students. We found that, in general,…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, College Credits, Outcomes of Education, Information Literacy
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Bhatt, Ibrar – Educational Media International, 2012
Success in educational programmes often depends on learners being able to negotiate and manage a variety of digital literacy practices commensurate with the literacy demands of their course. This paper reports on preliminary findings of a multi-method PhD study which examines the digital literacy practices arising when an adult learner in a UK…
Descriptors: Adult Students, Foreign Countries, Writing Assignments, Media Literacy
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Colwell, Jamie – Action in Teacher Education, 2016
This qualitative case study explored preservice teachers' (PSTs) beliefs about disciplinary literacy as they engaged in a blog project with middle-school students to discuss historical texts. Twenty-eight PSTs, enrolled in a semester-long social studies methods course and participating in the blog project as a course assignment, constituted the…
Descriptors: Preservice Teachers, Preservice Teacher Education, Student Teacher Attitudes, Beliefs
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McNabola, Aonghus; O'Farrell, Ciara – Innovations in Education and Teaching International, 2015
Research and practice is presented on the use of student assessments as part of reflective practice to evaluate teaching. Case studies are presented in the delivery of Engineering modules across a number of years at undergraduate and postgraduate levels. Both student performance in continuous assessment and student feedback on assessments…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Engineering Education, Outcomes of Education, Reflective Teaching
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Mehta, Sandhya Rao; Al-Mahrooqi, Rahma – RELC Journal: A Journal of Language Teaching and Research, 2015
While thinking critically is often perceived to be the primary purpose of reading, the question of whether it can actually be taught in classrooms has been extensively debated. This paper bases itself on a qualitative case study of university students completing a degree in English Language and Literature. It explores the way in which critical…
Descriptors: Critical Thinking, Case Studies, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
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Prud'homme-Genereux, Annie – Journal of College Science Teaching, 2013
The objective of the project described in this article was to engage nonscience majors in a science communication assignment. Most of these students will not pursue careers in the sciences, so the traditional science communication formats (review papers, poster or oral presentation, lab reports) are not germane to their background, interests, and…
Descriptors: College Freshmen, Nonmajors, Writing Assignments, Content Area Writing
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Rossiter, J. A. – European Journal of Engineering Education, 2013
It is known that assessment drives learning and hence a good assessment design is key to effective student development. This paper gives some case studies in effective assessment strategies within engineering. The main contribution is to demonstrate how one can simultaneously meet a number of requirements with individual assessments and therefore…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Student Evaluation, Engineering Education, Efficiency
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Rafferty, Patricia D. – Journal of Management Education, 2013
This article forms part of an exploration into how graduate students experience group work. A single case, embedded study was completed in 2011, which reveals insight and understanding into the manner in which part-time MBA students experience group work assignments and how these experiences contribute to their perception of positive group work…
Descriptors: Masters Programs, Graduate Students, Business Administration Education, Part Time Students
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Sormunen, Eero; Heinstrom, Jannica; Romu, Leena; Turunen, Risto – Information Research: An International Electronic Journal, 2012
Introduction: Past research on source-based writing assignments has hesitated to scrutinize how students actually use information afforded by sources. This paper introduces a method for the analysis of text transformations from sources to texts composed. The method is aimed to serve scholars in building a more detailed understanding of how…
Descriptors: Validity, Secondary School Students, Foreign Countries, Web 2.0 Technologies
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Atkinson, Timothy N. – Journal of Leadership Education, 2014
In this application brief I share a case study assignment I used in my "Leadership in Complex Organizations" classes to promote creativity in problem solving. I sorted Ph.D. students into two teams and trained them to use creative writing techniques to "encode" theory into their own cases. A sense of competition emerged. Later,…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Leadership Training, Teaching Methods, Creativity
Reinhart, Kelly Christine – ProQuest LLC, 2014
Despite the critical importance of writing proficiency for success in higher education and the workplace (National Commission on Writing, 2003, 2004, 2005), writing achievement has remained stagnant for a number of years. Despite being firmly grounded in tenets of effective instruction (Graham & Perin, 2002) the widely used writer's workshop…
Descriptors: Writing Instruction, Writing Difficulties, Writing Strategies, Writing Improvement
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