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Direct linkDaniels, Stephanie; McCurdy, Merilee; Whitsitt, Lynnette; Skinner, Christopher H.; Schwartz-Micheaux, Janet; White, Jada – Reading & Writing Quarterly, 2020
Research findings support a relationship between writing self-efficacy and writing production. A multiple-probe across students design was used to evaluate the effects of a writing intervention, which included strategy instruction and cognitive-behavioral components, on the writing production of three middle school students. Visual analysis of…
Descriptors: Self Efficacy, Writing Instruction, Intervention, Correlation
Download full textFischer, Laura M.; Meyers, Courtney – Journal of Agricultural Education, 2017
Writing skills are one of the most important skills college graduates need to possess; however, college graduates struggle to complete written communications proficiently in the workforce. Previous researchers have explained that college instructors must understand the students' fears with writing in order to create effective writing curriculum.…
Descriptors: Writing Skills, Pretests Posttests, Scores, Anxiety
Arquero, Jose Luis; Fernández-Polvillo, Carmen; Valladares-García, Dolores – Education & Training, 2017
Purpose: The literature evidences the effects of communication apprehension (CA), defined as the level of fear and anxiety associated with either real or anticipated communication, on educational efforts and suggests that (via the perceived desirability of certain professions) it could affect vocational choices. The purpose of this paper is to…
Descriptors: Secondary School Students, Foreign Countries, Anxiety, Communication (Thought Transfer)
Liu, Yuanyuan – English Language Teaching, 2020
Writing anxiety is one of the most essential factors influencing language learning. The current study is to explore the effect of sentence-making practice on reducing writing anxiety of two classes of adult EFL learners, one in low-intermediate level (LI learners), the other in high-intermediate level (HI learners). Two classes received two-week…
Descriptors: Writing Apprehension, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, English (Second Language)
Iran-Nejad, Asghar; Xu, Yuejin; Mansouri, Behzad – Research in the Schools, 2013
Reported in this article was an experiment in which 143 undergraduates in an educational psychology course were encouraged to engage in the performance learning activity (PLA) of "seeking their own revelations (or insights) and reflecting on them in writing." The hypothesis, grounded in the biofunctionally-based, first-person…
Descriptors: Writing (Composition), Undergraduate Students, Educational Psychology, Learning Activities
Roscoe, Rod D.; Snow, Erica L.; Brandon, Russell D.; McNamara, Danielle S. – Grantee Submission, 2013
The ability of educational games to promote students' engagement in learning and practice depends on perceived enjoyment of those games. This study investigated high school students' perceptions and enjoyment of games within the Writing Pal intelligent tutoring system. In accord with research on motivation, results showed that perceived…
Descriptors: Educational Games, Educational Technology, Technology Uses in Education, Intelligent Tutoring Systems
