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Walstra, Richard; Harrington, Steve; Drougas, Anne; Pollastrini, Raymond – Journal of Instructional Pedagogies, 2012
The traditional approach to business education has been through functional training in specific disciplines. However, changes in the way businesses have operated over the past twenty years have led to calls for a new, integrated approach to business education. Support for an integrated curriculum has come from various professional organizations…
Descriptors: Finance Occupations, Accounting, Business Administration Education, Interdisciplinary Approach
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O'Connor, Jeremy J. – Journal of Instructional Pedagogies, 2012
One of the many challenges faculty members face when teaching courses is insuring that students read the assigned material by the due date. This study examines student reading behavior in two courses in order to better understand how student reading behavior changes over the course of the semester. The purpose of this study is to identify factors…
Descriptors: Student Interests, Student Motivation, Reading Assignments, College Freshmen
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Clarke, Egerton; Hornyak, Christine – Journal of Instructional Pedagogies, 2012
The ever increasing enrollment of later-life students in institutions of higher learning warrants innovative teaching strategies to promote successful learning outcomes. This article discusses the academic challenges that instructors face and argues in support of an important assessment method, that is, portfolio writing. This novel strategy was…
Descriptors: Nontraditional Students, Teaching Methods, Portfolios (Background Materials), Writing Assignments
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Lee, Hyun-Hwa; Hines, Jean D. – Higher Education Studies, 2012
Many educators believe that student learning is enhanced when they are actively involved in classroom activities that require student inquiry. The purpose of this paper is to report on three student inquiry projects that were incorporated into a merchandising class with the focus on making students responsible for their learning, rather than the…
Descriptors: Active Learning, Inquiry, Introductory Courses, Merchandising
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Carpenter, Russell; Apostel, Shawn; Hyndman, June Overton – International Journal of ePortfolio, 2012
After developing and testing a model for integrative collaboration at Eastern Kentucky University's Noel Studio for Academic Creativity, we offer results that highlight the potential for peer review to significantly and positively impact the ePortfolio design process for students. The results of this classroom/studio collaboration suggest that…
Descriptors: Models, Portfolios (Background Materials), Electronic Publishing, Creativity
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Bharuthram, S.; McKenna, S. – Africa Education Review, 2012
Many students enter tertiary education unfamiliar with the 'norms and conventions' of their disciplines. Research into academic literacies has shown that in order to succeed in their studies, students are expected to conform to these norms and conventions, which are often unrecognized or seen as "common sense" by lecturers. Students have…
Descriptors: Academic Discourse, Universities, Writing Skills, Intellectual Disciplines
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Kalchman, Mindy; Marentette, Brian – Current Issues in Middle Level Education, 2012
In this paper we report on the process, outcomes, and impact of a weekly homework assignment for which students write about the mathematics they do in their everyday lives. Data from 17 fifth-grade students suggest that after doing the assignment for a full school year, students clearly communicated their beliefs about the assignment having…
Descriptors: Homework, Test Preparation, Assignments, Mathematics Activities
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Williams, Ronald D., Jr.; Williams, Amber R. – Contemporary Issues in Education Research, 2012
Health educators in elementary and secondary schools should seek collaborations with teachers of other subjects to enhance health education curriculum. The strategy described in this article details a potential collaboration between health education and language arts units. The activity enhances both drug education knowledge gains and creative…
Descriptors: Health Education, Creative Writing, Drug Education, Alcohol Education
Williams, Brian; May, Laura A.; Williams, Rhina Fernandes – Multicultural Education, 2012
The authors of this article work in a university-based teacher preparation program designed to prepare teachers to serve in urban, historically underserved schools. Entrance to the program is competitive. Preservice teachers are selected, in part, for their rich life experiences and interest in working in high-needs schools. Even with this…
Descriptors: Social Justice, Childrens Literature, Urban Schools, Teacher Educators
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Koerner, Morgan – Unterrichtspraxis/Teaching German, 2012
This article proposes a theatrically oriented, thematically structured course model for the upper level undergraduate German curriculum. The traditional focus on staging a single play in the German foreign language theater practicum neglects theater's potential to explore other literary genres and cultural texts and runs the danger of…
Descriptors: German, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Undergraduate Students
Bell, Donna W. – ProQuest LLC, 2012
The purpose of this study was to provide information that may improve or design technology professional development for family and consumer sciences teachers to integrate technology into student assignments. This study was designed to investigate (a) the extent to which Alabama family and consumer sciences teachers are requiring students to…
Descriptors: Family and Consumer Sciences Teachers, Educational Technology, Technology Integration, Technology Uses in Education
Voegele, Janelle DeCarrico – ProQuest LLC, 2012
The use of hybrid learning (a blend of face-to-face and distance learning) is rapidly increasing in higher education. However, educational leaders have raised concerns about the proliferation of hybrid programming as an efficiency measure without appropriate attention to learning. This study examined the relationship between social, teaching and…
Descriptors: Blended Learning, Best Practices, Undergraduate Students, Instructional Design
Simon, Kelly R. – ProQuest LLC, 2012
The development of preservice teacher beliefs is a complicated, non-linear process. It has been suggested that preservice teacher beliefs are highly impacted by their past histories as students, and that these beliefs act as a filter for interpreting the coursework and ideas in their teacher education programs. Understanding the way preservice…
Descriptors: Preservice Teachers, Teacher Education Programs, Grounded Theory, Student Attitudes
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Lai, Karyn – Assessment & Evaluation in Higher Education, 2012
Many tertiary-level courses assess students' participation in tutorial or online discussions. However, in educational and pedagogical research literature, criteria for assessing students' skills in engaging with peers remain unclear. This article describes an online assignment with a set of participation criteria and a method for assessing the…
Descriptors: Student Evaluation, Student Participation, Evaluation Criteria, Discussion (Teaching Technique)
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Whalen, D. Joel; Andersen, Ken; Campbell, Gloria; Crenshaw, Cheri; Cross, Geoffrey A.; Grinols, Anne Bradstreet; Hildebrand, John; Newman, Amy; Ortiz, Lorelei A.; Paulson, Edward; Phillabaum, Melinda; Powell, Elizabeth A.; Sloan, Ryan – Business Communication Quarterly, 2012
The 12 Favorite Assignments featured in this article were presented at the 2011 Annual Convention of the Association for Business Communication (ABC), Montreal, Canada. A variety of learning objectives are featured: delivering bad news, handling difficult people, persuasion, reporting financial analysis, electronic media, face-to-face…
Descriptors: Conferences (Gatherings), Assignments, Student Projects, Business Communication
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