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Reynolds, Luke – Teachers College Press, 2012
In this age of standardization, many English teachers are unsure about how to incorporate creative writing and thinking into their classroom. In a fresh new voice, Luke Reynolds emphasizes that "creativity in our lives as teachers and in the lives of our students is one of our most vital needs in the 21st century." Based on his own journey as an…
Descriptors: Writing Assignments, Creativity, Creative Writing, English Teachers
How Students with Emotional Disturbance Demonstrate Historical Literacy across Various Forms of Text
Ludwig, Martha L. – ProQuest LLC, 2012
This qualitative study increases the understanding of how students with emotional disturbance (ED) demonstrate their grasp of key elements of social studies instruction. While there is considerable research in the general education literature on how students grapple with various social studies concepts and methodology, there is a void in…
Descriptors: Qualitative Research, Emotional Disturbances, Concept Formation, Social Studies
Jeremiah, Ken – ProQuest LLC, 2012
Critical thinking continues to be an educational concern even though many school systems, educators, and academic articles have stressed its importance. To teach critical thinking, teachers need to learn what it is and how it is taught. It is unknown to what extent critical thinking skills are taught and assessed in classrooms. The purpose of this…
Descriptors: Critical Thinking, High School Students, Grounded Theory, Teaching Methods
Thouësny, Sylvie – Research-publishing.net, 2012
Language teachers, as one might expect, are often confronted with the task of assessing and grading students' assignments, which should ideally be addressed with respect to not only reliability and validity, but also functionality. Based on Knoch's (2011) taxonomy features with regards to design and development of writing assessments, an analytic…
Descriptors: Scoring Rubrics, Feedback (Response), Error Correction, Grading
Boston, Melissa – Elementary School Journal, 2012
Assessments of instructional quality based on classroom observations and artifacts have the potential to measure and improve mathematics instruction and learning. This article describes the Instructional Quality Assessment (IQA) Mathematics Toolkit and examines its ability to identify the nature and quality of classroom instruction. The IQA…
Descriptors: Academic Standards, Feedback (Response), Instructional Improvement, Mathematics Instruction
Price, Daniel S.; Brooks, David W. – Chemistry Education Research and Practice, 2012
While lecture demonstrations have been conducted in chemistry classrooms for hundreds of years, little research exists to document the frequency with which such demonstrations are employed or their effect on learners' motivation and performance. A mixed-methods research study was performed, using quantitative and qualitative survey data, along…
Descriptors: Student Motivation, Chemistry, Assignments, Lecture Method
Kalvaitis, Darius; Monhardt, Rebecca M. – Environmental Education Research, 2012
How do young children portray and describe their relationships with nature? In what ways do young children's relationships with nature vary by grade level? These two research questions guided this phenomenographic study, which investigated developmental differences in children's relationships with nature. A total of 176 children, aged 6-11, from…
Descriptors: Constructivism (Learning), Environmental Education, Young Children, Content Analysis
Kinnunen, Paivi; Simon, Beth – Computer Science Education, 2012
This article provides insight into how computing majors experience the process of doing programming assignments in their first programming course. This grounded theory study sheds light on the various processes and contexts through which students constantly assess their self-efficacy as a programmer. The data consists of a series of four…
Descriptors: Grounded Theory, Majors (Students), Assignments, Self Efficacy
Libarkin, Julie; Ording, Gabriel – CBE - Life Sciences Education, 2012
We tested the hypothesis that engagement in a few, brief writing assignments in a nonmajors science course can improve student ability to convey critical thought about science. A sample of three papers written by students (n = 30) was coded for presence and accuracy of elements related to scientific writing. Scores for different aspects of…
Descriptors: Writing Assignments, Writing Across the Curriculum, Writing Skills, Academic Ability
Fulop, Rebecca M.; Tanner, Kimberly D. – Advances in Physiology Education, 2012
Students go to school to learn. How much, however, do students understand about the biological basis of this everyday process? Blackwell et al. (1) demonstrated a correlation between education about learning and academic achievement. Yet there are few studies investigating high school students' conceptions of learning. In this mixed-methods…
Descriptors: Urban Schools, Methods Research, Learning Processes, Misconceptions
Duijnhouwer, Hendrien; Prins, Frans J.; Stokking, Karel M. – Learning and Instruction, 2012
This study investigated the effects of feedback providing improvement strategies and a reflection assignment on students' writing motivation, process, and performance. Students in the experimental feedback condition (n = 41) received feedback including improvement strategies, whereas students in the control feedback condition (n = 41) received…
Descriptors: Feedback (Response), Self Efficacy, Student Motivation, Writing Processes
Eppes, Tom A.; Milanovic, Ivana; Sweitzer, H. Fredrick – Innovative Higher Education, 2012
In this article we describe a curricular strategy that improves the full range of skillsets critical to capstone success. Improved Capstone (ICap) was developed and implemented across the thermo-fluids topical area in the undergraduate Mechanical Engineering Technology Program at the University of Hartford. ICap experiential courses sequentially…
Descriptors: Assignments, Engineering Technology, Information Literacy, Scaffolding (Teaching Technique)
Jensen, Jennifer; Tunon, Johanna – Journal of Library & Information Services In Distance Learning, 2012
A number of free Web-based tools are available for distance librarians to create presentations and online assignments. The relative merits of presentation tools like Dabbleboard, Jing, Prezi, Tildee, 280 Slides, and Glogster, and classroom tools like Make Beliefs Comix, Picviewer, Photopeach, and Wordle are assessed for ease of use by distance…
Descriptors: Usability, Library Instruction, Courseware, Database Management Systems
Colley, Binta M.; Bilics, Andrea R.; Lerch, Carol M. – Canadian Journal for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning, 2012
The ability to think critically is an important trait of all members of society. With today's multinational, multicultural, complex issues, citizens must be able to sift through large amounts of various data to make intelligent decisions. Thinking critically must be a focus of higher education in order to provide the intellectual training for its…
Descriptors: Educational Objectives, Critical Thinking, Fundamental Concepts, Reflection
Connors, Sean P.; Sullivan, Racheal – Clearing House: A Journal of Educational Strategies, Issues and Ideas, 2012
This article recounts what happened when one of the authors, a pre-service teacher, introduced a digital multimodal composition project in her 9th-grade inclusion English classes to support junior high students as they read the novel "To Kill a Mockingbird". Rather than regard new literacies as competing with print literacy for attention, the…
Descriptors: Preservice Teachers, Student Teachers, Language Arts, Secondary Education