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Direct linkSelhorst, Adam L.; Bao, Mingzhen; Williams, Lorraine; Klein, Eric – Online Journal of Distance Learning Administration, 2017
Classroom discussion boards are a vital part of the online educational experience, providing a venue for peer to peer and student to faculty interactions. However, institutional feedback from students at a large open enrollment university has shown that excess focus on online discussions may lead to fatigue, resulting in lower student…
Descriptors: Group Discussion, Computer Mediated Communication, Adult Students, Feedback (Response)
Download full textWhat Works Clearinghouse, 2014
For the 2014 study, "Closing the Social-Class Achievement Gap: A Difference-Education Intervention Improves First-Generation Students' Academic Performance and All Students' College Transition," researchers investigated the impact of attending a moderated panel on incoming freshmen's adjustment to college. The panel featured…
Descriptors: Achievement Gap, Social Class, First Generation College Students, Academic Achievement
Peer reviewedWesson, Caren L. – Exceptional Children, 1991
The study, with 55 mildly and moderately disabled elementary students, investigated the effectiveness of teacher-developed goals and monitoring systems versus a curriculum-based measurement (CBM) system and of individual expert versus group follow-up consultation. Groups employing CBM and group consultation generally out performed the other…
Descriptors: Consultants, Consultation Programs, Curriculum Development, Diagnostic Teaching
Peer reviewedDressel, Janice Hartwick – Research in the Teaching of English, 1990
Studies the effects of listening to and discussing different qualities of children's literature on fifth grade students' writing. Finds that stories written by children who heard and discussed higher quality literature were rated significantly differently on traits related to literary quality and genre development than those written by children…
Descriptors: Childrens Literature, Discussion (Teaching Technique), Discussion Groups, Grade 5
