Studies in Teaching: 2025 Research Digest

Abstract

This document presents the proceedings of the 29th Annual Research Forum held June 26, 2025, at Wake Forest University in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. Included are the following eight action research papers: (1) The Influence of Cross-Curricular Pedagogy on Student Engagement in ELA Classrooms (Anna Breaugh); (2) The Influence of Guided Free Writing on Student Interest in Writing in a High School Classroom (Emerson Crichton); (3) Debate in the High School Classroom: How a Whole-Class Debate Impacts Student Achievement and Engagement (Olivia Franke); (4) Influence of Student-Led Discussion on Student Engagement with Texts (Samia Krazoun); (5) Influence of Literature Circles on Student Engagement with Multicultural Texts (Mikayah Parsons); (6) The Impact of Multimodal Primary Sources on Student Engagement and Achievement in Social Studies (Kevin David Powell); (7) Journaling as an Extension of Education (Alex Strait); and (8) Teaching Academic Vocabulary to Secondary Social Studies Students (Alex Walraven). Individual papers contain references, tables, and figures.