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Grady, Jessica Stoltzfus; Jenefsky, Cyd; Bayers, Leslie; McConnell, Nicholas J. – Assessment Update, 2023
Equity-minded assessment refers to a set of practices that collectively serve to understand, prioritize, and optimize the learning experiences and outcomes of student learners, particularly students from communities who have been historically marginalized or underserved in higher education. The scholarship on equity-minded assessment (Montenegro…
Descriptors: Equal Education, Student Evaluation, Culture Fair Tests, Culturally Relevant Education
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Anderson, LaKesha N. – Journal of Communication Pedagogy, 2019
This article explores the foundations and the content areas that ground the introductory public relations course. Examples of two assignments designed to help students think critically, apply knowledge, and improve their writing skills are offered, as well as the identification of several challenges both students and instructors face and a brief…
Descriptors: Introductory Courses, Public Relations, Critical Thinking, Writing Skills
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Shafer, Gregory – Community College Journal of Research and Practice, 2022
We, as community college English teachers, have the opportunity to empower students who have been subjected to years of top-down, teacher-directed education. We have the obligation to make them critical thinkers, improving their chances of being thoughtful and successful adults. It all begins with the way we teach writing and the respect we have…
Descriptors: College Faculty, Community Colleges, Two Year College Students, Writing Instruction
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Pilotti, Maura A. E.; Elmoussa, Omar – Cogent Education, 2022
The present research examined the extent to which the initial approach to a research-writing course by STEM and non-STEM second-language learners may entail the contribution of different dispositions to course performance and ultimately be responsible for dissimilar outcomes. Individual differences in dispositions and behavior were assessed during…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Student Research, Writing (Composition), STEM Education
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Qin, Wenjuan; Uccelli, Paola – Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 2021
In writing science summaries, student writers frequently borrow language fragments from source texts. While taking a text's ideas verbatim is commonly considered a failure in writers' expected use of their own words or even plagiarism, imitating "linguistic chunks" from skilled speakers is also an effective practice in language…
Descriptors: Elementary School Students, Middle School Students, Science Education, Writing (Composition)
Qin, Wenjuan; Uccelli, Paola – Grantee Submission, 2021
In writing science summaries, student writers frequently borrow language fragments from source texts. While taking a text's ideas verbatim is commonly considered a failure in writers' expected use of their own words or even plagiarism, imitating "linguistic chunks" from skilled speakers is also an effective practice in language…
Descriptors: Elementary School Students, Middle School Students, Science Education, Writing (Composition)
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Traci C. Eshelman – Turkish Online Journal of Educational Technology - TOJET, 2024
The purpose of this multiple intrinsic case study was to describe how Northeastern United States middle school teachers and students engaged with a new automated writing evaluation tool used to score and provide feedback on extended essay assignments to improve teaching and learning writing. Richard Elmore's (1993) instructional core framework is…
Descriptors: High School Teachers, Learner Engagement, Automation, Writing Evaluation
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Tedrow, Mary K. – Inquiry, 2020
The initial composition course in the community college has the potential to be a transformative space for the identity formation of adult learners towards the linguistic signifier of "scholar." Freshman students of variable ages enter a new culture which demands the negotiation of an alternative academic language, an adaptation to the…
Descriptors: College Freshmen, Freshman Composition, Community Colleges, Self Concept
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Caviglia-Harris, Jill – Journal of Economic Education, 2020
Economists largely agree that writing is fundamental to understanding and communicating economics and can serve as an effective way to teach students to "think like economists." However, only a small percentage of programs include writing-intensive courses, a major research paper, or a senior thesis, and even fewer devote class time to…
Descriptors: Economics Education, Process Approach (Writing), Writing Across the Curriculum, Writing Assignments
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Özdemir, Serpil – World Journal of Education, 2018
The aim of this study is to view how argumentative text pattern teaching influences constituting argumentative essay elements. The study was performed according to one-group pre-test post-test design. The study was carried out in spring term of 2017-2018 academic year and it lasted for five weeks. 33 prospective teachers who took the course of…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Persuasive Discourse, Essays, Preservice Teachers
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Petchprasert, Anongnad – Asian-Pacific Journal of Second and Foreign Language Education, 2021
Recently, the integration of linguistics and technology has been promoted and widely used in the field of linguistics and English writing research for several purposes. One of those purposes is to evaluate English as a Foreign Language (EFL) writing ability by using electronic assessment tools. In the current study, an automated writing evaluation…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Second Language Instruction, Second Language Learning, English (Second Language)
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Russell, Jeffrey A. – American Association for Adult and Continuing Education, 2021
Many college students face numerous academic, social, and economic obstacles that can affect their ability to succeed in their coursework. Expressive writing could be used to help college students overcome these obstacles and make meaning of their experiences to improve their academic lives. With expressive writing, community college students can…
Descriptors: Two Year College Students, Community Colleges, Expressive Language, Writing Assignments
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Clark, Lindsay C.; Luo, Zijun; Smith, Ashly Bender – Research & Practice in Assessment, 2020
Writing support programs for students in writing-intensive, disciplinary courses are well established and take many forms, including communication centers, web-based skill development programs, and embedded writing consultants. This paper assesses the effectiveness of a program that embeds a writing grader, who assesses only the grammar of…
Descriptors: Business Schools, Content Area Writing, Writing Instruction, Writing Evaluation
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Cahyono, Bambang Yudi; Rahayu, Titik – TEFLIN Journal: A publication on the teaching and learning of English, 2020
There have been a lot of research studies on the role of motivation in education and language learning. However, research on the role of motivation in the area of EFL (English as a foreign language) writing is a rare undertaking. This study aimed to examine the correlation between EFL students' motivation in writing and their writing proficiency.…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Instruction, Student Motivation, Writing Skills
Traga Philippakos, Zoi A.; Graham, Steve – International Literacy Association, 2020
Reading is seen by many as an essential ingredient for learning to write. Is the relationship between reading and writing reciprocal? Does the path to better reading involve becoming a good writer? The answer to these questions presents a paradox. One does not have to learn to write in order to learn to read, as learning how to write or type words…
Descriptors: Writing Instruction, Reading Skills, Reading Instruction, Writing Skills
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