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Riddell, Jessica – Collected Essays on Learning and Teaching, 2015
This paper explores ways in which frequent feedback and clear assessment criteria can improve students' essay writing performance in a first-year English literature course. Students (n = 68) completed a series of three scaffolded exercises over the course of a semester, where they evaluated undergraduate essays using a predetermined assessment…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Essays, Expository Writing, Introductory Courses
Feltham, Mark; Sharen, Colleen – Collected Essays on Learning and Teaching, 2015
Students often express surprise at their grades on papers. This gap between expectation and achievement may stem in part from lack of facility with revision strategies. How, then, can teachers work with their students to foster more effective revisions? This question in teaching and learning has inspired an interdisciplinary collaboration: one of…
Descriptors: Writing (Composition), Revision (Written Composition), Metacognition, Writing Processes
Williams, Jane – Collected Essays on Learning and Teaching, 2011
This study presents a project undertaken to address a potential problem in getting new students to engage with their academic life. In September 2009, a new course design was introduced into the BA (Hons) Education program at the University of Wales, Newport. The course team was keen to ensure this new development did not lead to a fragmentation…
Descriptors: Learner Engagement, Student Participation, School Orientation, Information Literacy
Mather, Jennifer A. – Collected Essays on Learning and Teaching, 2009
This paper recounts the author's experience with giving a Needs Assessment for improvement by university teachers. Subjects were from the University of Lethbridge and the 2008 Society for Teaching and Learning in Higher Education (STLHE) conference session. Teachers at the University (n = 77) indicated they could spend 5-15 hours in teaching…
Descriptors: College Faculty, Teacher Attitudes, Teacher Improvement, Instructional Improvement