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Peer reviewedBamberg, Betty – College Composition and Communication, 1983
Examines prevailing definitions of coherence in text. Cites writing samples from the National Assessment of Educational Progress to illustrate how coherence at the paragraph level must supersede coherence between sentences. (HTH)
Descriptors: Coherence, Educational Assessment, Elementary Secondary Education, Paragraph Composition
Download full textEducation Commission of the States, Denver, CO. National Assessment of Educational Progress. – 1975
This report, part of the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) survey, describes one facet of the national assessment of writing. The students--9-, 13-, and 17-year-olds who constitute the sample for the NAEP studies--were told to use their best writing but were not told that their papers would be examined for mechanical correctness.…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Grammar, Longitudinal Studies, Measurement Instruments
