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Alexander, John; Swartz, Fred – 1982
Concerned with the failure of multiple choice tests to measure composition--as opposed to grammar and usage--skills, college researchers studied the value of using writing samples to place students in composition classes. Evaluating the writing samples of 300 incoming freshmen, they did not find a high correlation between sample scores and…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, College Freshmen, Computer Assisted Testing, Criterion Referenced Tests
