Students striving to acquire the capability of contributing to the modern global economy are neither clients nor customers of an educational institution. Rather, students are creators and consumers of their own human capital, the quality of which depends in part on the investment they and their...

This action research project investigates whether writing assignments are associated with improved student performance in terms of lower-order learning and higher-order learning as defined in Bloom's taxonomy of educational objectives. The impact of explicitly structuring the learning...