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Williams, Teresa D.; Grimble, Bonnie J.; Irwin, Marilyn – School Library Media Research, 2004
High school students often use online databases and the Internet in the school library media center (SLMC) to complete teachers' assignments. This case study used a survey to assess teachers' awareness of electronic resources, and to determine whether their directions influence student use of these resources in the SLMC. Participants were teachers…
Descriptors: School Libraries, Databases, Internet, Library Services
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Samuels, Linda B.; Bast, Carol M. – Journal of Legal Studies Education, 2006
Plagiarism is certainly not new to academics, but it may be on the rise with easy access to the vast quantities of information available on the Internet. Students researching on the Internet do not have to take handwritten or typewritten notes. They can simply print out or copy and save whatever they find. They are even spared the tedium of having…
Descriptors: Research Papers (Students), Plagiarism, Change Strategies, Writing Assignments
Hunter, Linda – 1995
A four-year ethnographic study was conducted at St. Olaf College and examined six assumptions about student attitudes toward writing. The study, involving administration of the Writers Block instrument, writing samples, and several interviews with three students over their 4 years in college, evaluated the following assumptions: (1) that once…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Ethnography, Higher Education, Student Attitudes
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Thomas, Brook – College English, 1996
Provides a model unit of study for the use of legal cases in writing courses. Shares reasons for the success of this approach. (TB)
Descriptors: Case Studies, Court Litigation, Higher Education, Instructional Effectiveness
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Wiemelt, Jeffrey – Linguistics and Education, 1994
Outlines a text-based, interactionist approach toward writing and written communication. A brief analysis of the working drafts and revisions of a first-year college student's essay is offered to illustrate how key textual features function reflexively to establish and sustain the evolving but mutually held rational grounds of school writing and…
Descriptors: Case Studies, College Freshmen, Interaction, Language Role
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Strijbos, Jetske; Meeus, Wil; Libotton, Arno – International Journal for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning, 2007
This study examines the effects of a portfolio programme on self-regulation--and thus among third year students of teacher education training to be secondary school teachers. Data collection was by means of self-reporting before, during and after the portfolio programme and via perception questionnaires. The study indicates a significant increase…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Undergraduate Students, Preservice Teachers, Preservice Teacher Education
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McDougall, Roseanne; LaMonica, Jeffrey – Journal of Effective Teaching, 2007
Primary sources in religion and history enable first year university students to connect "content-based" linked courses in the core curriculum. Fifty-four first year university students in three separate pairs of courses worked in teams to present oral critical reports on texts related to the Reformation, the Enlightenment, and the…
Descriptors: Critical Thinking, Teaching Methods, Learning Experience, Writing Assignments
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Russell, William Benedict, III, Ed. – International Society for the Social Studies, 2013
The "ISSS Annual Conference Proceedings" is a peer-reviewed professional publication published once a year following the annual conference. The following papers are included in the 2013 proceedings: (1) Teaching About Asia in a Social Science Education Program (Cyndi Mottola Poole and Joshua L. Kenna); (2) Teaching Students about…
Descriptors: Social Studies, Preservice Teacher Education, Teaching Methods, Education Courses
Stansell, John C. – 1993
A study examined the impact of students' researching their own literacy histories upon their views of literacy and literacy learning but shifted to investigate sources of students resistance to the assignment. In the seven sections of a senior-level reading course, taught between 1988 and 1991, data were collected and analyzed to address the…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Elementary Education, Higher Education, Literacy
Wilner, Arlene – 1994
Given the affective dimension of writing in the workplace, assignments based on casebook scenarios have definite advantages in a technical or professional writing course. An English professor surveyed faculty in the Schools of Business and Education at Rider College prior to revising a course in technical writing. A majority of faculty, when asked…
Descriptors: Audience Awareness, Case Studies, Class Activities, Critical Thinking
Pitts, Judy M.; And Others – School Library Media Quarterly, 1995
Describes a study that examined decisions made by secondary school students as they completed an assignment that required them to seek and use information. Results indicated that a learning experience is composed of a variety of intertwined "learning strands." Educators should recognize that learning on one strand can support learning on…
Descriptors: Assignments, Case Studies, Information Seeking, Learning Activities
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Smith, John A.; And Others – Social Education, 1992
Suggests that using historical novels in a unified studies approach to social studies and reading instruction may enhance students' learning in both content areas. Describes a historical fiction project utilizing three novels pertaining to United States history. Concludes that the whole class instruction unified each class through participation in…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Elementary Secondary Education, History Instruction, Integrated Activities
Pfister, Christina C.; White, Daniel L.; Masingila, Joanna O. – International Education Journal, 2006
This paper uses Baxter Magolda's (1992) framework on ways of knowing to examine the effects of using multimedia case studies with beginning pre-service teachers (PSTs). Baxter Magolda referred to these ways of thinking as absolute, transitional, independent, and contextual. The written responses to two sets of tasks were analysed for 36 PSTs…
Descriptors: Preservice Teachers, Education Courses, Private Colleges, Case Studies
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Thelin, William H. – Composition Forum, 2005
The issue of social class rarely injects itself into assignments in honors English composition courses. The students take few chances with structure, analysis, voice, or audience invocation. Clearly bright students, they seemed baffled when asked for complication in their thinking or to take a chance with an unconventional structure. It was time…
Descriptors: Honors Curriculum, Writing (Composition), Working Class, Writing Assignments
Hindman, JaneE – 1990
A case study examined one college student's poor performances during timed-writing sessions to develop a method to allow students to maintain the quality and ease in writing they achieve in other writing situations. The student, assigned to write a movie review, volunteered to participate in two 90 minute talk-aloud protocol sessions to examine…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Cognitive Processes, Cues, Higher Education
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