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Showing 1 to 18 of 18 for “"Written assignments"”.
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What Difference Does One Academic Year Make? Features And Development Of International Foundation Students’ Academic Lexis In Assessed Writing At A UK University
… in UK-based international foundation students’ written assignments and the main contributors to this development. These aims are addressed with the assistance of three tools, namely Text Inspector.com (Bax 2015), AntWordProfiler (Anthony 2013) and AntConc (Anthony 2014) which provide an insight …
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RoboBUG: a game-based approach to learning debugging techniques
… and novices who instead completed a traditional written assignment. Our results found that study participants reported a positive attitude towards using games for learning, and those who played the RoboBUG game believed it to be more fun and engaging than written assignments.
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An analysis of students' experiences during their acquisition of academic literacy, based on their consultations with the UCT Writing Centre : looking towards improving the feasibility of academic mentorship within higher education
… students are able to discuss drafts of their written assignments with consultants. Through a detailed analysis of a large set of consultation records, I explore whether students' experiences and use of the Writing Centre vary according to language, gender and degree level. And based on this …
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How do those completing initial teacher training in the post-compulsory education and training sector consider ‘theory’ in relation to their practice?
… to their practice in one of their examined assignments. I was drawn to study this area when, as the participants’ teacher, I found myself questioning the unexamined regard that the curriculum held ‘theory’ in. The data was collected through individual interviews, focus group discussions and …
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Influence of Pre-service Teachers' Beliefs about Diversity on Science Teaching and Learning
… the field. Data also consisted of any relevant written assignments. The data for this study were analyzed according to emerging themes, depicting initial beliefs and any changes in the beliefs occurring over time. The results of this study were organized into vignettes, telling each story from …
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The IPAD and the Development of Speaking and Writing in the Secondary EFL Classroom
… interviews, recorded teacher meetings, students’ written assignments, and lesson plans. The data collected has been analysed from a socio-cultural theory perspective. The analysis of written data was also informed by Hallidayan Systemic Functional Linguistics (SFL), and a Task-based language …
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A study of teaching assistants' engagement with a mathematics block of learning
… were carried out with nine students using their written assignments, online forum posts and questionnaire responses as prompts to discussion. From the literature review I identified two potentially relevant areas of theory, in particular, Harland & Kinder’s (1997) ordering of INSET outcomes, and …
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Crossing Borders: An Academic Literacies Approach to the Study of M.A. Thesis Writing on English Studies Programmes in an Italian and a Hungarian University.
… would need to know and be able to do to complete written assignments on a postgraduate English Studies programme in a different European cultural and linguistic context. An 'ethnographic-style' approach was adopted to collect 'rich' data on graded written work from each programme at the end of the …
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An exploration of students from the African diaspora negotiating academic literacies
… curriculum and the negotiation of high stakes written assignments. The thesis offers an enhanced understanding of undergraduates as knowledge makers, the resources they bring to the academy and how, at times, they are positioned by others as they negotiate what is required of them. In doing so, …
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To Write or Not to Write: A Look at Faculty Use of Writing at a Small Liberal Arts College
… the skills necessary to succeed in the area of written communication. This deficiency reflects poorly on universities, and even small liberal arts colleges are not exempt from this problem. This dissertation was driven by a desire to learn how professors at one small liberal arts college viewed …
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Examining the Relationship Between Academic Integrity and Moral Reasoning Among Physical Therapy Students
… undergraduate students admitted to cheating on written assignments or tests. However, minimal research exists on physical therapy (PT) students’ perceptions of academic dishonesty. Moral reasoning has been investigated throughout medical programs with PT students having displayed lower levels …
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Academic Dishonesty in Traditional and Online Courses as Self-Reported by Students in Online Courses.
… engagement in cheating on tests than cheating on written assignments, cheating on out-of-class assignments, or using technology to cheat. Regression tests found a weak relationship between intended field of study and rates of academic dishonesty. A personal code of integrity was perceived to be …
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Constructing Leadership Identities through Participation in a Leadership Living-Learning Community
… analysis of key program documents and students' written assignments, and a confirmatory student focus group contributed to the creation of eight primary themes and one overarching theme describing how students constructed leadership identities through community participation. The eight themes …
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Biology topics perceived as different by High School Pupils of Kasama and Mungwi Districts of Zambia
… topics with pupils, and giving to pupis some written assignments or research work followed by a feedback on such work.
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Letter leaders handwriting program for preschoolers: an early identification and intervention approach to reduce handwriting problems in children.
… 60% of a child's school day is spent completing written work (Marr, Windsor, & Cermak, 2001; McHale & Cermak, 1992). This written work is the primary means by which a teacher evaluates the child's learning. Studies have shown that legibility and handwriting speed influence a child's success in …
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The writing of assignments in a pre-service primary education programme: Student and staff perspectives
The writing of assignments by tertiary students is an area that merits exploration due to the high stakes involved for students, staff and institutions. Generally, in order for students to pass courses, they need to write assignments at a level, and in a manner, deemed appropriate by the staff …
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Harnessing curiosity, interest, and empathy in the college chemistry classroom
… and analyzing empathic communication in written assignments. Currently, the data collection for training this text classifier is underway. The Kubler-Ross model (1969), which delineated the five stages of grief, and the SPIKES method (1992), which provided step-by-step instructions for …