Using writing to teach developmental biology, using developmental biology to teach writing

Personal illness narratives: using reflective writing to teach empathy.

Reflective writing is one established method for teaching medical students empathetic interactions with patients. Most such exercises rely on students' reflecting upon clinical experiences. To effectively elicit, interpret, and translate the patient's story, however, a reflective practitioner must also be self-aware, personally and professionally. Race, gender, and other embodied sources of ide...

The Cell Biology of Leishmania: How to Teach Using Animations

1 Instituto de Bioquı́mica Médica, UFRJ, Rio de Janeiro, Brasil, 2 Fundação Cecierj/CEDERJ, Rio de Janeiro, Brasil, 3 Instituto Nacional de Metrologia, Qualidade e Tecnologia, Inmetro, Rio de Janeiro, Brasil, 4 Universidade Santa Úrsula, Rio de Janeiro, Brasil, 5 Instituto de Biofı́sica Carlos Chagas Filho, UFRJ, Rio de Janeiro, Brasil, 6 Núcleo Multidisciplinar de Pesquisa UFRJ-Xerém, UFRJ, Rio ...

Writing-To-Teach: A New Pedagogical Approach To Elicit Explanative Writing from Undergraduate Chemistry Students

Contemporary strategies in STEM education focus on developing pedagogies that more actively engage students in their own learning. A method that has proven effective to this end has been peer instruction and discussion, particularly those in which participating students must organize information in such a way as to be able to verbally articulate it to others. The success of peer learning raises...

Pre-Service Teachers’ Attitudes about Writing and Learning To Teach Writing: Implications for Teacher Educators

A Developmental Writing Scale

This report describes the development of grade norms for timed-writing performance in two modes of writing: persuasive and descriptive. These norms are based on objective and automatically computed measures of writing quality in grammar, usage, mechanics, style, vocabulary, organization, and development. These measures are also used in the automated essay scoring system e-rater V.2. Norms were ...