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Hollander, Pam; Dawson, Duke; Haller, Charlotte; Briesacher, Erika; Collins, Caroline; Rearick, Kristina; Lemieux, Elise – Journal of Effective Teaching in Higher Education, 2022
Professors and students have contradictory views of course reading. Professors believe that reading outside of the classroom is essential in optimizing learning. However, students often find the readings to be time-consuming, not necessary to pass the class, and an option rather than a requirement. We surveyed 449 undergraduate university students…
Descriptors: College Faculty, Teacher Attitudes, Student Attitudes, Reading Assignments
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Ritchey, K. A.; List, A. – College Teaching, 2022
Undergraduates report a variety of reasons for not reading assigned text(s), including confusion regarding instructors' expectations, while faculty report using reading as a major instructional tool and attest to the negative consequences of students' lack of reading. To bridge this divide, we propose Task-Oriented Reading Instruction (TORI) as a…
Descriptors: Reading Assignments, Reading Comprehension, Compliance (Psychology), Undergraduate Students
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Lijia Lin; Shan Li; Xiaoshan Huang; Fu Chen – Distance Education, 2024
The purpose of the study was to examine (a) students' social annotation behaviors and engagement change in an undergraduate course throughout the semester, and (b) which social annotation behaviors impact active engagement time. A total of 91 university students' social annotation behaviors, as well as their active engagement time in readings,…
Descriptors: Computer Mediated Communication, Documentation, Undergraduate Students, Student Behavior
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Li Zhao; Suqi Li; Yu-Sheng Su – Education and Information Technologies, 2024
Microlearning, as an informal learning approach, has gained increasing popularity in both the training industry and professional studies disciplines over the last several years. However, despite the rising interest in microlearning, how to design microlearning activities and what microcontent is reasonable for microlearning activities have rarely…
Descriptors: Learning Activities, Electronic Learning, Learning Modules, Reading Assignments
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Marcia H. Davis; Jason Schoeneberger; Christopher Rhoads; Douglas J. Mac Iver; Xiaodong Zhang; Martha Mac Iver; Samantha Spinney – Grantee Submission, 2024
This paper investigates the impact of assignment to the Accelerating Literacy for Adolescents (ALFA) Lab, an additional semester-long class taken during an elective period, on ninth grade student reading achievement, motivation, and frequency. We conducted a regression discontinuity (RD) study where 1,378 students from diverse high schools in four…
Descriptors: High School Students, Grade 9, Acceleration (Education), Literacy
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Higgs, Jennifer M.; Kim, Grace MyHyun – English Teaching: Practice and Critique, 2022
Purpose: Research on nonschool settings suggests young people benefit from digital multimodal composition. Less is known about how digital composing can support students as they interpret required literary class texts. To understand the potential benefits and challenges of digitally composing for literary analysis, design interviews with two high…
Descriptors: High School Students, Reading Assignments, Technology Uses in Education, Classics (Literature)
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Nelson, Jacob L.; Edgerly, Stephanie – Journalism and Mass Communication Educator, 2022
Journalism stakeholders increasingly believe that they need to better understand the news audience to accomplish their goals. Our study explores the extent to which this "audience turn" has unfolded in the education of future journalists. Drawing on data collected from course syllabi from leading journalism schools throughout the United…
Descriptors: Audience Awareness, Journalism Education, News Reporting, Reading Assignments
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Knoop-van Campen, Carolien A. N.; Kok, Ellen; van Doornik, Roos; de Vries, Pam; Immink, Marleen; Jarodzka, Halszka; van Gog, Tamara – Frontline Learning Research, 2021
Reading comprehension is a central skill in secondary education. To be able to provide adaptive instruction, teachers need to be able to accurately estimate students' reading comprehension. However, they tend to experience difficulties doing so. Eye tracking can uncover these reading processes by visualizing what a student looked at, in what…
Descriptors: Eye Movements, Reading Comprehension, Reading Assignments, Secondary School Teachers
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Cudney, Elizabeth A.; Anderson, Somer; Beane, Robbie; Furterer, Sandra; Mohandas, Lakshmy; Laux, Chad – Quality Assurance in Education: An International Perspective, 2023
Purpose: Teaching effectiveness is essential to student learning, engagement and success. This study aims to identify the perceived teaching effectiveness attributes from the student's perspective through a pilot study. Design/methodology/approach: A comprehensive literature review identified 6 demographic and 25 teaching effectiveness…
Descriptors: Student Attitudes, Teacher Effectiveness, Teacher Characteristics, Reading Assignments
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Pickett, Sarah B.; Nielson, Catie; Marshall, Hydea; Tanner, Kimberly D.; Coley, John D. – Journal of Microbiology & Biology Education, 2022
Students possess informal, intuitive ways of reasoning about the world, including biological phenomena. Although useful in some cases, intuitive reasoning can also lead to the development of scientifically inaccurate ideas that conflict with central concepts taught in formal biology education settings, including evolution. Using antibiotic…
Descriptors: Intervention, Reading Assignments, Drug Therapy, Microbiology
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Alma Contreras-Vanegas; Amber Godwin; William H. Blackwell – School Leadership Review, 2023
This study was conducted to find how teacher candidates at a southwestern regional university understood ableism and empowerment based on their reading and interaction with the campus common reader. This work was important to help future teachers form healthy instructional practices that are inclusive of all students, regardless of ability in…
Descriptors: Preservice Teachers, Student Attitudes, Attitudes toward Disabilities, Social Bias
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El Turkey, Houssein; Turki, Salam; Kottegoda, Yasanthi – PRIMUS, 2021
Many active learning practices highly depend on students' advance preparation for the class. However, reading Calculus can be a challenging task to students. We address this concern by assigning targeted pre-class readings in multiple Calculus courses. We report on our implementations, provide students' feedback, and discuss the lessons learned…
Descriptors: Reading Assignments, Calculus, Flipped Classroom, Mathematics Instruction
Head, Alison J. – Project Information Literacy, 2021
While educators believe reading is an investment in learning and knowing, what many are not considering is what reading analytically means to civic life in the digital age when many of the old gatekeepers of traditional publishing are disappearing. As new voices have emerged, and there is an explosion of reading material, there is also less…
Descriptors: Reading Comprehension, Undergraduate Students, Content Area Reading, Reading Materials
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Gorzycki, Meg; Desa, Geoffrey; Howard, Pamela J.; Allen, Diane D. – Journal of Adolescent & Adult Literacy, 2020
Qualitative data analysis from open-ended comments written by 206 undergraduates illustrates student attitudes, beliefs, and practices that reveal an academic reading paradox. Consistently, undergraduates report that reading is valuable, yet their noncompliance with reading assignments suggests otherwise. Undergraduates report that they achieve…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Reading Attitudes, Reading Assignments, Compliance (Psychology)
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Oslawski-Lopez, Jamie; Kordsmeier, Gregory – Teaching Sociology, 2021
We investigate student listening compliance, preference for audio versus print content, and exam performance when professionally produced podcasts are assigned as "readings" and provided in both audio and print formats. Listening/reading compliance for the assigned podcasts was high compared with figures reported in previous research.…
Descriptors: Learner Engagement, Handheld Devices, Audio Equipment, Best Practices
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