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Hawkins, Mary Louise; Marshall, Jon C. – 1981
Based on a writing program evaluation project that took place in the Ferguson-Florissant School District in suburban St. Louis, Missouri, this booklet provides administrators and policymakers with a plan for evaluating their own writing programs and also provides results of the Ferguson-Florissant evaluation. The first chapter contains…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Evaluation Methods, Holistic Evaluation, Program Descriptions
Deluzain, Edward – 1983
Addressing the need to develop an evaluation system that assesses the effectiveness of a writing program on students' performance, the Holistic Writing Assessment Program of Mosley High School (Florida) was devised to ascertain and document the extent to which improvement occurred in students' compositions. On a designated day in the semester, all…
Descriptors: Educational Administration, Educational Diagnosis, Evaluation Methods, High Schools
Download full textReed, Linda – 1983
Prepared as part of a series applying recent research in oral and written communication to classroom practice, this booklet reviews a number of concepts and issues important to communication assessment. The first section of the booklet discusses several issues related to assessing communication at both district and classroom levels. Issues…
Descriptors: Classroom Research, Communication Skills, Educational Assessment, Elementary Education
Courts, Patrick L.; McInerney, Kathleen H. – 1993
As part of the American school reform movement, administrators are searching for ways of measuring students' skills and progress within the system. This book focuses on the qualitative assessment possible through the use of student portfolios, particularly at the college level. It begins with a critical examination of multiple-choice, standardized…
Descriptors: Achievement Tests, Classroom Research, College Outcomes Assessment, Elementary Secondary Education
Alberta Dept. of Education, Edmonton. – 1987
Part 2 of the Alberta (Canada) Education's "Program of Studies for Elementary Schools 1978" (amended 1981), this bulletin describes the planned design, parts, and scoring of the grade six English language arts achievement test to be written in June 1988, and based on curriculum specifications for an integration of thinking and…
Descriptors: Achievement Tests, Critical Thinking, Educational Testing, Elementary Education
Davis, Barbara Gross; And Others – 1987
To address the need for information on techniques and theory on the evaluation of composition instruction, this book has been revised to incorporate the most recent thinking on the topic. It begins with suggestions for how readers of different backgrounds can make best use of the book, followed by an introduction. The first chapter deals with…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Course Evaluation, Evaluation Methods, Evaluation Utilization
