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Pennsylvania Department of Education, 2010
This handbook describes the responsibilities of district and school assessment coordinators in the administration of the Pennsylvania System of School Assessment (PSSA). This updated guidebook contains the following sections: (1) General Assessment Guidelines for All Assessments; (2) Writing Specific Guidelines; (3) Reading and Mathematics…
Descriptors: Guidelines, Guides, Educational Assessment, Writing Tests
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
O'Neal, Marcia R.; And Others – 1983
A difficulty associated with the use of Golub and Frederick's syntactic density score was the time required in hand tabulation. This drawback was resolved with the development by Kidder of a computer program which calculates a syntactic density score for writing samples. The purpose of this study was to examine the sensitivity of the Syntactic…
Descriptors: Computer Programs, Evaluation Methods, Measurement Techniques, Pretests Posttests

Tindal, Gerald; Parker, Richard – Learning Disabilities Research and Practice, 1991
This study describes validation data for qualitative and quantitative writing measures useful with a full range of students, including special education students, in grades three through five. The study looked for consistent administration and scoring, sensitivity in differentiating groups of students, relation to other accepted assessments, and…
Descriptors: Disabilities, Elementary Education, Evaluation Methods, Program Evaluation
Purpose and Audience in Writing: A Study of Uses of the Primary Trait System in Writing Instruction.
Holdzkom, David; And Others – 1983
The Primary Trait System (PTS) of scoring was devised by the National Assessment of Educational Progress to score large numbers of natural writing samples. Essentially, PTS permits evaluation of writing in an objective way, but one that does not rely on scoring surface features such as mechanics, grammar, or spelling. While the assessment value of…
Descriptors: Educational Assessment, Educational Innovation, Evaluation Methods, Holistic Evaluation

Tindal, Gerald; Hasbrouck, Jan – Learning Disabilities Research and Practice, 1991
A system is presented for advancing writing assessment beyond simple summative statements into a procedure for planning and evaluating instruction for all students, particularly those with learning disabilities. Case studies are presented in which writing samples are analyzed both quantitatively and qualitatively for story idea,…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Elementary Secondary Education, Evaluation Methods, Learning Disabilities
Guerrero, Barry J.; Robison, Ruth E. – 1986
A study was conducted by the Student Development Center of the University of Hawaii at Hilo to develop a writing placement procedure in a community college setting which would be practical, reliable, and valid. The key to this procedure was an English composition placement device that could help readers rate, holistically, writing samples written…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Evaluation Criteria, Evaluation Methods, Holistic Evaluation
Langer, Judith A. – 1983
A study examined the effect of topic-specific background knowledge on the general quality and local coherence of student writing. Ninety-seven tenth grade students were assigned two writing tasks on specific topics at two points during a semester. J. Langer's measure of topic-specific knowledge was administered prior to each writing task. Each…
Descriptors: Audience Analysis, Coherence, Evaluation Methods, Grade 10

Mosenthal, Peter B. – Exceptional Children, 1988
The definition of progress as applied to writing research and practice is examined, and three different approaches to understanding the writing of exceptional children are considered: a literal approach, an interpretive approach, and an evaluative approach. The scientific and social implications of each of the approaches are considered.…
Descriptors: Disabilities, Elementary Secondary Education, Evaluation Methods, Exceptional Persons
Borchardt, Donald A. – 1980
A computer assisted system called PEERRATE was used in a theater history course at Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey in Newark, in fall 1980, in order to give students an opportunity to anonymously grade one another's written work and to compare their own ratings with those of fellow students and the instructor. The PEERRATE system is a…
Descriptors: Computer Software, Evaluation Criteria, Evaluation Methods, Grading
Illinois State Board of Education, Springfield. Evaluation and Assessment Section. – 1984
This report identifies the methods and issues in the evaluation of student writing in classrooms and large scale assessments using an analytical scoring system from the Illinois Inventory of Educational Progress (IIEP). This guide is written for staff in state offices of education conducting large-scale writing assessments, and also for personnel…
Descriptors: Educational Assessment, Educational Methods, Elementary Secondary Education, Essay Tests

Cross, Lawrence H.; And Others – Journal of Educational Measurement, 1985
This study evaluated procedures for establishing a minimum performance standard for the essay subtest of the National Teacher Examinations Communications Skills test. Results indicated the preferred procedure for setting standards on essays should involve a blind review followed by an informed review. (Author/DWH)
Descriptors: Beginning Teachers, Cutting Scores, Essay Tests, Evaluation Methods

Mizell, Kay – Community/Junior College Quarterly of Research and Practice, 1991
Describes a study conducted at Collin County Community College to assess the writing performance of different student populations. Offers observations about writing assessment for external validity. Suggests simple procedures for quantifying writing competency. Includes a proposal for portfolio assessment. (DMM)
Descriptors: Classroom Research, Classroom Techniques, Community Colleges, Evaluation Methods
Busch, John Christian; Jaeger, Richard M. – 1984
This study addressed seven questions regarding the methods used in setting passing scores on the essay subtest of the National Teacher Examinations (NTE) Communication Skills test for the North Carolina State Board of Education. North Carolina uses these tests to screen prospective applicants to teacher education programs. The judges (five college…
Descriptors: College Entrance Examinations, Criterion Referenced Tests, Cutting Scores, Essay Tests

Isaacson, Stephen L. – Learning Disabilities Research and Practice, 1992
This review of the Test of Early Written Language concludes that the test succeeds in identifying students who are below their peers in writing and in measuring long-term gains in written language achievement; but its format makes it difficult to document specific strengths and weaknesses and its reliability; and validity have not been…
Descriptors: Early Childhood Education, Evaluation Methods, Student Evaluation, Test Reliability
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