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Peer reviewedHemenover, Scott H.; Caster, Jeffrey B.; Mizumoto, Ayumi – Teaching of Psychology, 1999
Examines whether the use of progressive writing for a psychology paper assignment affects students' writing and motivation when used to discuss course material illustrated in popular movies. Reveals that the students felt their writing improved and 44% of the students earned 90% of the overall points; student motivation was lower than expected.…
Descriptors: Educational Strategies, Films, Higher Education, Outcomes of Education
Download full textBeeghly, Dena G.; Reese, Susan Jacques – 1996
Academic Development Program students face a special challenge. Within a few short weeks, they must hone their reading, writing, and speaking skills while scrambling to adjust to life in college. Usually, pre-freshmen enrolled in the Academic Development Program are not familiar with the demands of academic reading, writing, and oral response. For…
Descriptors: Academic Discourse, College Preparation, Developmental Studies Programs, Higher Education
Iovino, Linda – 1991
In a high school writing workshop, students frequently would go through multiple essay drafts and conferences with the teacher and fellow students before realizing that their theses were incorrect. A teacher devised the "lexivision" to address this problem. Students used Venn diagrams, graphs, or flow charts to represent concepts in the…
Descriptors: Class Activities, Creativity, Critical Thinking, Graphs
