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Comstock, Mary – Language Arts, 1992
Presents a case study of poetry writing in a fifth grade classroom. Shows not only how writing and reading come together but also how children come together with each other and with published poets. (RS)
Descriptors: Case Studies, Classroom Research, Grade 5, Intermediate Grades
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Woolf, Harvey – Assessment & Evaluation in Higher Education, 2004
This article reviews the findings of a small-scale investigation into the criteria used by a number of SACWG departments for assessing final-year project modules in business and history and other written history assignments. The findings provide the basis for a broader discussion of the issues relating to the formulation and use of assessment…
Descriptors: Evaluation Criteria, Higher Education, Foreign Countries, History Instruction
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Tsui, Lisa – Journal of Higher Education, 2002
Analysis of interview and classroom observation data collected through four institutional case studies reveals some consistent findings regarding how writing assignments and class discussions can be made conducive to critical thinking development. (Contains 1 table and 1 figure.)
Descriptors: Writing Assignments, Observation, Critical Thinking, Case Studies
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Lunsford, Karen J. – Written Communication, 2002
Although Toulmin models of argumentation are pervasive in composition textbooks, research on the model's use in writing classrooms has been scarce--typically limited to evaluating how students' essays align with the model's elements (claim, data, warrant, qualifier, rebuttal, backing) construed as objective standards. That approach discounts…
Descriptors: Writing (Composition), Writing Assignments, Teaching Methods, Persuasive Discourse
McCarthey, Sarah J. – 1993
This paper uses two case studies to explore the risk and opportunities of writing from students' personal experiences. Anthony, a high-achieving, Hispanic fifth-grader, and Anita, a low-achieving, African-American sixth-grader, participated in a writing workshop in which students kept notebooks of their personal experiences and reflections. The…
Descriptors: Audience Awareness, Case Studies, Elementary School Students, Hispanic American Students
Stierer, Barry – Occasional Papers in Communication, 1997
This paper reports on the preliminary stage of a research project examining the kinds of writing that teachers are required to produce as part of their study when undertaking masters-level courses in education. The paper states that of particular interest is the way in which the particular writing these writing teachers do for these courses…
Descriptors: Academic Discourse, Case Studies, Comparative Education, Discourse Communities
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Bailey, Lora Battle; Silvern, Steven B.; Brabham, Edna; Ross, Margaret – Early Childhood Education Journal, 2004
This study examined the effects of (a) interactive reading homework; and (b) parent involvement with children during homework on students' responses to inference questions. Interactive reading homework refers to homework designed to involve both parents and children and to facilitate student reasoning. The participants were 84 parents and 84…
Descriptors: Reading Assignments, Homework, Parent Participation, Inferences
Phillips, Cassandra – 2002
The instructor/author first started to think about the relationship between time and literacy when she was writing her dissertation and doing a study in a first-year composition course at a community college in Chicago. She realized that many teachers at community colleges think about the issue of time, as they realize it is something their…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Classroom Techniques, Community Colleges, Literacy
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Sperling, Melanie – Written Communication, 1991
Examines naturally occurring one-to-one writing conference conversations between a ninth grade English teacher and three students. Considers composing processes that appear to be privileged in the conference context when different students are learning to write. Suggests a broadened model of effective writing conference instruction. (MG)
Descriptors: Case Studies, Grade 9, Language Acquisition, Secondary Education
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Romano, Tom – English Education, 1998
Describes the ramifications of a writing assignment for preservice teachers about their relationships with literature. Reports on several of the students' personal writings in response to the assignment. Presents responses of two teachers, Greg Hamilton and Deborah Kinder, about doing personal writing assignments. (PA)
Descriptors: Case Studies, Critical Reading, Higher Education, Literature Appreciation
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Shea, Kelly A.; Balkun, Mary McAleer; Nolan, Susan A.; Saccoman, John T.; Wright, Joyce – Across the Disciplines, 2006
This article describes a writing-across-the-curriculum project that was born of one university's commitment to writing and ubiquitous computing. Faculty members across the disciplines, seeing an opportunity to re-introduce WAC on its campus through a curriculum development initiative funded out of an internal teaching, learning, and technology…
Descriptors: Writing Across the Curriculum, Curriculum Development, Writing Instruction, Faculty Development
Van Every, David A. – 1995
A study examined the belief that to improve education, more must be learned not only about the abilities students bring into the classroom, but also about what the students do outside the classroom. Six freshmen were instructed to keep diaries detailing their views of college life. Each subject was given a blank diary entry on a diskette and…
Descriptors: Case Studies, College Freshmen, Diaries, Educational Improvement
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Slaght, Evelyn F.; And Others – Journal of Social Work Education, 1995
An approach to program assessment taken by one bachelor's in social work (BSW) program involved evaluation of the collective work of randomly chosen seniors on three assignments. Results revealed strengths and weaknesses of the program and led to reexamination of assignments, statements of desired program outcomes, and curriculum changes.…
Descriptors: Assignments, Bachelors Degrees, Case Studies, College Outcomes Assessment
Lemon, Hallie S. – 1996
Sample excerpts from e-mail discussion used in place of the traditional journal in freshman composition illustrate the fascinating issues raised in this new forum. E-mail allows confrontational statements that would not have been made face-to-face and puts in written form a dialogue for analysis by the entire class. A study concentrated on three…
Descriptors: Affirmative Action, Blacks, Case Studies, Computer Mediated Communication
Goodman, Charles H.; Stone, Elizabeth W. – 1971
The aids to be used in a course designed for the continuing education of professional librarians on human resources in the library have been compiled in two volumes. The first of these contains forms, work assignments, handouts, and transparencies. Forms are for personal information, work assignments, evaluations, and critiques. Work assignments…
Descriptors: Administrator Education, Assignments, Bibliographies, Case Studies
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