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Scholes, Laura; Stahl, Garth; Comber, Barbara; McDonald, Sarah; Brownlee, Jo Lunn – Cambridge Journal of Education, 2021
Building on work that brings literacy instruction and student science learner identity together, this study addresses a gap in research related to student experiences as readers in middle school science classrooms. To understand student perceptions of pedagogical approaches to reading in science, we asked 45 middle school students to reflect on…
Descriptors: Literacy Education, Middle School Students, Science Instruction, Content Area Reading
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Cook, Brian Robert; Babon, Andrea – Journal of Geography in Higher Education, 2017
Active learning is increasingly promoted within institutions of higher education to assist students develop higher order thinking and link knowledge to meaning. In this paper, the authors evaluate the use of weekly online quizzes based on prescribed preparatory material as a tool to incentivize preparatory reading in order to enable and encourage…
Descriptors: Active Learning, Teaching Methods, Computer Assisted Testing, Student Evaluation