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Lussier, Catherine M.; Ditta, Annie S.; Speer, Annika C. – Psychology in the Schools, 2023
Students are often unmotivated to engage with their online coursework. Research has shown that concretely visualizing one's goals (e.g., photo-taking) can improve motivation to learn. This study explored the effect of taking a photo of one's study space (i.e., a "studygram" photo similar to a post on Instagram) on students' motivation to…
Descriptors: Visualization, Visual Aids, Learning Motivation, Learner Engagement
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Sull, Errol Craig; Clements, Kurtis – Distance Learning, 2023
The blog and distance learning: the former can enhance, enlighten, and elevate the educational experience for the student and the teaching experience for the instructor. And blogs are especially suited for the asynchronous environment where nearly everything is written and remains throughout the course, so students can continually refer to the…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Electronic Journals, Student Journals, Distance Education
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Sull, Errol Craig – Distance Learning, 2023
Labor-based grading: for many instructors in the world of distance learning this is a new concept, yet it is one that is rapidly growing in acceptance and popularity. First introduced in 1993 by English professor Peter Elbow, the premise of labor-based grading is that instructors weigh assignments based on how much labor--how much…
Descriptors: Grading, Distance Education, Evaluation Methods, Scoring Rubrics
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Whitaker, Adam – English in Texas, 2023
Schools are becoming increasingly diverse, and teachers must recognize the social, cultural, and personal experiences that students bring to the classroom and must leverage this knowledge to develop curriculum and instructional strategies to meet the needs of a growing, diverse student population. The author uses Winn and Johnson's (2011)…
Descriptors: Culturally Relevant Education, Writing Instruction, Poetry, Writing (Composition)
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Kim, J. B.; Zhong, Chen; Liu, Hong – Journal of Information Systems Education, 2023
Cybersecurity education is becoming increasingly important in modern society, and hands-on practice is an essential element. Although instructors provide hands-on labs in their cybersecurity courses, traditional lab exercises often fail to effectively motivate students. Hence, many instructors desire to incorporate gamification in hands-on…
Descriptors: Gamification, Information Security, Class Activities, Active Learning
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Süleyman Avci; Mustafa Özgenel – Journal of Educational Research, 2025
This study aimed to test three homework models defined in different cultures on Turkish high school students. HLM analyses were conducted on data collected from 1,229 high school students, considering 19 student-level and 7 grade-level variables. The dependent variables of the study were academic achievement and homework completion. The findings…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Homework, Academic Achievement, High School Students
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Leanna Deorajee Kalicharan; Cathal Butler – Journal of Applied Research in Higher Education, 2025
Purpose: This study contributes to the current body of literature on students' understanding of academic misconduct, plagiarism, forms of plagiarism, the reasons they plagiarize, the sanctions imposed by academics for plagiarizing and the methods to address plagiarism in written assessments within the Faculty of Natural Sciences, University of…
Descriptors: College Students, Student Behavior, Ethics, Plagiarism
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Reidun Hoff-Jenssen – European Early Childhood Education Research Journal, 2025
Being a schoolchild involves academic and social competencies often expressed from the viewpoints of politicians, researchers or parents. This article focuses on pupils' views, highlighting their experiences and reflections and aiming to give the pupils a voice in education. The study is based on data from 39 group interviews with 115 first-grade…
Descriptors: Elementary School Students, Grade 1, Student Attitudes, Friendship
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Whalen, D. Joel – Business and Professional Communication Quarterly, 2022
This article offers readers 13 teaching innovations debuted at the 86th annual meeting of the Association for Business Communication held online. Assignment topics presented here include personal and professional development as well as oral communication and presentation skills. Additional assignment support materials--instructions to students,…
Descriptors: Instructional Innovation, Business Communication, Assignments, College Instruction
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Terson de Paleville, Daniela G. L. – Advances in Physiology Education, 2022
This article describes an assignment used in an undergraduate Advanced Exercise Physiology course for seniors. Students' backgrounds in chemistry varied from adequate to almost nonexistent. This presented several challenges for teaching and students' understanding of aerobic oxidation of a glucose molecule. This article presents an assignment for…
Descriptors: Active Learning, Assignments, Toys, Physiology
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Fisher, Rick; DeDiego, Amanda C.; Cooper, Kathryn E.; Frye, Kathleen; Larson, Michele D.; Duball, Chelsea – Across the Disciplines, 2022
In this study at a research-intensive public university, a group of eight instructors across a range of disciplines designed a writing assignment in which students (n=104) chose to write to one of three audiences--the teacher, a novice, or an adjacent expert. Students were then asked to complete a questionnaire that included open-ended questions…
Descriptors: College Students, Writing Assignments, Audiences, Teachers
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Anson, Chris M. – Composition Studies, 2022
Student plagiarism has challenged educators for decades, with heightened paranoia following the advent of the Internet in the 1980's and ready access to easily copied text. But plagiarism will look like child's play next to new developments in AI-based natural-language processing (NLP) systems that increasingly appear to "write" as…
Descriptors: Plagiarism, Artificial Intelligence, Natural Language Processing, Writing Assignments
Black, Kristin E. – Written Communication, 2022
The present study offers an alternative methodological approach to the growing body of literature on stance--the linguistic arrangements that construe a writer's perspective on knowledge. A number of recent studies have concluded that control over linguistic stance tends to develop through college and that preferred markers of stance differ by…
Descriptors: Linguistics, Writing Instruction, Writing (Composition), Prompting
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Marwan, Samiha; Akram, Bita; Barnes, Tiffany; Price, Thomas W. – IEEE Transactions on Learning Technologies, 2022
Theories on learning show that formative feedback that is immediate, specific, corrective, and positive is essential to improve novice students' motivation and learning. However, most prior work on programming feedback focuses on highlighting student's mistakes, or detecting failed test cases after they submit a solution. In this article, we…
Descriptors: Feedback (Response), Formative Evaluation, Programming, Coding
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Swanson, Nathan W. – Honors in Practice, 2022
A series of courses on the Evolution of Ideas introduces interdisciplinary study, develops collaborative discourse, and promotes a sense of community among first-year honors students. The curriculum encourages faculty to use a range of strategies to help students understand an idea and its history while also fostering awareness as to its social,…
Descriptors: Honors Curriculum, Interdisciplinary Approach, Cooperative Learning, Cartography
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