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Calabrese, Marylyn E. – English Journal, 1982
Points out the disadvantages and limitations of grading all student writing. Offers alternative methods of giving students meaningful feedback about their writing. (RL)
Descriptors: Evaluation Methods, Grading, High Schools, Teaching Load

Metzger, Margaret Treece – English Journal, 1982
Shows how a teacher developed a pattern of responding to student writing. Lists 15 of her standard comments. (RL)
Descriptors: Evaluation Methods, High Schools, Student Teacher Relationship, Writing Evaluation
Chall, Jeanne S.; Bissex, Glenda L.; Conard, Sue S.; Harris-Sharples, Susan – 1996
This book presents a method for the qualitative assessment of text difficulty, a method that relies on a total impression rather than on an analysis of text features. The method is based on matching samples of text to exemplars that have been scaled for comprehension difficulty. These exemplars range in difficulty from those suitable for the…
Descriptors: Content Analysis, Difficulty Level, Evaluation Methods, Qualitative Research
Spandel, Vicki – 1997
Offering information to help parents understand how writing is taught in classrooms that use the 6-Trait Model for writing assessment and writing instruction, this handbook describes the model and how parents can provide the kind of support at home that would make classroom instruction even more effective. Sections of the handbook are: "A…
Descriptors: Elementary Education, Evaluation Methods, Parent Participation, Writing Evaluation
Bratcher, Suzanne – 1994
This book presents specific grading strategies and explicit instructions for using them while offering options which allow teachers to place the grading of writing into a communication context. The book introduces and explains a wide range of evaluation strategies used by classroom teachers to arrive at grades. Samples of student writing accompany…
Descriptors: Elementary Education, Evaluation Methods, Grading, Student Evaluation
Hartnett, Carolyn – 1980
Designed to identify and tabulate the various cohesive ties in writing, this instrument is a tabulation sheet for recording all instances of cohesive ties. The sheet includes columns for recording the cohesive word, the number of the sentence in which it appears, the referent of the cohesive word, and the number of the sentence in which it…
Descriptors: Cohesion (Written Composition), Elementary Secondary Education, Evaluation Methods, Postsecondary Education
Mann, Rebecca – 1988
In response to growing concern about the lack of basic writing skills, this paper presents an overview of the issues involved in selecting a method for the assessment of students' writing skills. After general criteria for determining the appropriateness of a writing evaluation procedure are outlined, the merits and limitations of objective tests…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Evaluation Criteria, Evaluation Methods, Holistic Evaluation

Greenhalgh, Carol; Townsend, Donna – Language Arts, 1981
Describes a "focused holistic" method of writing evaluation, which considers a total piece of writing, but in terms of predefined criteria. Provides sample evaluations. (HTH)
Descriptors: Elementary Education, Evaluation Criteria, Evaluation Methods, Holistic Evaluation

Lyons, Bill – English Journal, 1981
Having writers ask questions about their own papers promotes commitment to the revising and proofreading process. Students can ask teachers or peers the following: (1) What do you like about my paper? (2) What questions do you have about my paper? (3) What kinds of polishing does my paper need? (RL)
Descriptors: Evaluation Methods, Positive Reinforcement, Questioning Techniques, Secondary Education
Victoria Ministry of Education, West Melbourne (Australia). – 1990
This handbook offers a guide to identifying curriculum activities which will enable the observation of significant literacy behaviors, recording these observations, and assessing and reporting student development in literacy. The handbook presents carefully considered descriptions of literacy learning behaviors noted by teachers in a wide variety…
Descriptors: Curriculum Guides, Elementary Secondary Education, Evaluation Methods, Foreign Countries

Tindal, Gerald; Parker, Richard – Journal of Special Education, 1989
Eight direct scoring indices of written expression were intercorrelated, factor analyzed, and used to predict holistic judgments of writing samples of 172 middle-school students in compensatory/specialized education programs. Strongest predictors of holistic ratings were percentage of words correctly sequenced and percentage of correctly spelled…
Descriptors: Creative Writing, Disabilities, Evaluation Methods, Factor Analysis

Holt, Dennis – College Teaching, 1993
A discussion of holistic scoring, developed for use on essays in composition courses, argues that it can be used effectively in other disciplines. Procedures for establishing criteria of quality, ideas for identifying writing features relevant to the discipline in question, and methods of providing feedback to students are suggested. (MSE)
Descriptors: College Instruction, Essays, Evaluation Methods, Higher Education
Meade, Martin J. – 1983
It is possible to use writing assignments in college psychology courses as a means of teaching subject matter and writing without substantially increasing instructor workload. There are two sets of strategies for dealing with the problem of limited time and energy, one pertaining to the writing assignment itself, the other to evaluating such…
Descriptors: Educational Strategies, Evaluation Methods, Higher Education, Psychology

Olsen, Gary A. – Teaching English in the Two-Year College, 1982
Suggests that teachers use a tape recorder, with students resubmitting an erased cassette tape with each composition, for recording responses to written work as an alternative to the less instructive comments written in the margin of a paper. (HTH)
Descriptors: Evaluation Methods, Higher Education, Tape Recordings, Teaching Methods

Townsend, Jane S.; And Others – Preventing School Failure, 1997
Principles of writing assessment with at-risk students are explained, including the importance of identifying the purposes of assessment, assessment in the classroom context, and inclusion of children's and parents' perspectives in assessment of the child's writing progress. (DB)
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Evaluation Methods, High Risk Students, Parent Participation