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Anthony, Albert S. – Soc Stud, 1969
Descriptors: Assignments, Case Studies, Curriculum, History Instruction

Nelson, Jennie – Research in the Teaching of English, 1990
Explores academic writing from the students' side of the desk, examining how different tasks and writing situations influence students' approaches. Finds that responses to assignments depend upon what the students were actually rewarded for producing. (MG)
Descriptors: Case Studies, College English, Freshman Composition, Higher Education

Blake, Robert W. – English Journal, 1991
Describes a writing assignment designed to help students with the frequently strange and foreboding job of writing a poem. Discusses how one student and the teacher worked through the assignment. (RS)
Descriptors: Case Studies, English Instruction, Higher Education, Poetry

Faulkenburg, Marilyn – Bulletin of the Association for Business Communication, 1991
Describes a class project/case study where students draft a proposal and present it to a board for deliberation. Details how students analyze the current problem and the cause, brainstorm for a preferred and alternative solutions, and discuss advantages and disadvantages. (PRA)
Descriptors: Business Communication, Business Education, Case Studies, Cooperative Learning
Guzzetti, Barbara; Gamboa, Margaret – Research in the Teaching of English, 2005
One under-researched writing practice of today's millennial youth is online journaling. Despite the plethora of online journals on the Internet and their ubiquitous use by adolescents, little research has been conducted on online journaling as a literacy practice. The purpose of this study was, therefore, to explore how and why adolescents choose…
Descriptors: Females, Adolescents, Electronic Journals, Internet
Brost, Brian D.; Bradley, Karen A. – Journal of Scholarship of Teaching and Learning, 2006
Educators value reading as an academic practice and express frustration with student noncompliance with assigned reading. Some research has addressed this issue and recommends multiple strategies for overcoming the problem of student noncompliance. Much of this research, however, treats the problem as exclusively student-centered. This paper…
Descriptors: Classroom Techniques, Reading Assignments, Faculty, Case Studies
Jones, Colin – Journal of University Teaching and Learning Practice, 2007
This paper extends the previous application of Alfred Whitehead's educational ideas to the domain of enterprise education. In doing so, a unique approach to enterprise education is illustrated that links students to their reality whilst also connecting the curriculum to contemporary entrepreneurship theory. The paper reports upon past cycles of…
Descriptors: Entrepreneurship, Guidelines, Freedom, Theory Practice Relationship
Rous, Emma Wood – 2000
Not only inspiring teachers to help students become environmentally literate, this book also provides the tools to make it happen in the literature classroom. Beginning with readings and exercises about perception, it explores a wealth of nature writing activities, the history of people's relationship with nature from mythological times to the…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Class Activities, Conservation (Environment), English Instruction
McGuire, Peter J. – Technical Writing Teacher, 1981
Solves the problem of student diversity in technical writing courses by proposing a thematic approach to course content, with appropriate materials arranged in a classroom library of case studies. (RL)
Descriptors: Assignments, Case Studies, Classroom Techniques, Course Content
Hawe, L. Q. – Aspects of Educational and Training Technology Series, 1992
The recognition that knowledge, competence, and contribution are stages on a continuum has major implications for assessment methods. Written examinations are thought convenient and cost effective, but if students are to be evaluated as future employees, assignments and examinations should have professional relevance. Students can be best…
Descriptors: Assignments, Case Studies, Competence, Educational Change

Manganello, Robert E. – Journal of Teaching Writing, 1994
Describes, in a case study-like format, a cognitive strategy that might be helpful to the learning-disabled (LD) college student who must organize and write a longer text. Presents a brief description of an LD student and an actual writing assignment. Describes how the student completed the task. Discusses educational implications. (RS)
Descriptors: Case Studies, Higher Education, Learning Disabilities, Learning Problems

Perkins, David V. – Teaching of Psychology, 1991
Describes an assignment that requires students to organize, prepare, and revise a case study in abnormal behavior. Explains that students employ a single theoretical perspective in preparing a report on a figure from history, literature, the arts, or current events. Discusses the value of the assignment for students. (SG)
Descriptors: Case Studies, Higher Education, Humanistic Education, Psychopathology

Mann, Sarah J. – Higher Education, 2000
Extracts from four case studies of student readers describe how students approached the reading of the same text, the students' general approach to academic reading, and their feelings about reading and being a student. Suggests that the normally neutral or pleasurable private activity of reading is disturbed in the academic context by the threat…
Descriptors: Case Studies, College Students, Content Area Reading, Higher Education

Boles, Wageeh – Higher Education Research & Development, 1999
Studied two approaches to classroom assessment: the use of e-mail as a teaching and learning tool, and engaging students in preparing their own assignments. Surveys of undergraduate and graduate students in two academic years indicated that the initiatives improved the level of learning, increased student and teacher interactions, promoted…
Descriptors: Assignments, Case Studies, Electronic Mail, Graduate Students

Jennings, Louise B.; O'Keefe, Tim – Language Arts, 2002
Recognizes the essential role parents play in teaching and learning, the importance of developing both compassion and intelligence, and a shared responsibility for creating a more equitable world. Focuses on two sets of written conversations that parents and children created after reading texts about civil rights and human rights. (SG)
Descriptors: Case Studies, Civil Rights, Elementary Education, Interpersonal Communication