Using Student Opinions Regarding Traditional Vs. Writing Across The Curriculum Teaching Techniques: A Qualitative Pilot Study

Abstract

The focus groups of students representing a variety of majors, reported that assigning WTL exercises, WID papers, and guided-focus journals was indeed useful in helping then to learn the subject matter more comprehensively than the traditional method of lecturing and test taking. Students tended to report that they learned the information more in depth and could apply the information in their respective majors compared to only memorizing facts and terms.