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Direct linkFidalgo, Raquel; Torrance, Mark; Garcia, Jesus-Nicasio – Contemporary Educational Psychology, 2008
We compared 56 eighth-grade students who, 28 months previously, had received instruction in strategies for planning and revising their writing, with 21 students of similar academic ability from the same school who had not experienced the intervention. Both groups wrote an expository essay whilst logging their writing activities and completed…
Descriptors: Text Structure, Intervention, Self Efficacy, Writing Instruction
Torrance, Mark; Fidalgo, Raquel; Garcia, Jesus-Nicasio – Learning and Instruction, 2007
Seventy-one normally functioning Spanish sixth-grade students participated in classroom-based training in cognitive strategies for preplanning and substantive revision of expository text. Short essays completed by these students pre-intervention, post-intervention, and after a 12 week delay were compared with those of an ordinary-curriculum…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Instructional Effectiveness, Foreign Countries, Grade 6
