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Jordan M. Wheeler; Kevin R. Raczynski; Allan S. Cohen; George Engelhard Jr. – Journal of Experimental Education, 2024
Integrated writing assessments are tasks that require students to construct an essay using evidence from source texts. Topic models are statistical models used to analyze text. This study analyzes two integrated writing tasks from students in grades 6 (N=1,250) and 8 (N=1,250) using topic models. Independent evaluations of the essays were also…
Descriptors: Middle School Students, Grade 6, Grade 8, Mathematical Models
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Evmenova, Anya S.; Regan, Kelley; Hutchison, Amy – TEACHING Exceptional Children, 2020
Writing is essential for all students to demonstrate their knowledge and skills across various subject areas and tasks. The Common Core State Standards (CCSS) indicate that first graders should write opinion papers, explanatory texts, and narratives. Further, the CCSS requires students beginning in kindergarten to explore digital tools to produce…
Descriptors: Assistive Technology, Instructional Materials, Writing (Composition), Writing Instruction
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Regional Educational Laboratory Mid-Atlantic, 2020
This guide helps families and caregivers carry out recommended practices described in the What Works Clearinghouse educator's practice guide, "Teaching Elementary School Students to be Effective Writers" (ED533112). It provides three tips for supporting writing skills at home: (1) Help children use the writing process for a variety of…
Descriptors: Elementary School Students, Writing Skills, Family Environment, Evidence Based Practice
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Baaijen, Veerle M.; Galbraith, David – Cognition and Instruction, 2018
This study compares a problem-solving account of discovery through writing, which attributes discovery to strategic rhetorical planning and assumes discovery is associated with better quality text, to a dual-process account, which attributes discovery to the combined effect of 2 conflicting processes with opposing relationships to text quality.…
Descriptors: Writing Processes, Writing Strategies, Metacognition, Correlation
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Woods-Groves, Suzanne; Hughes, Charles A.; Rodgers, Derek B.; Balint-Langel, Kinga; Alqahtani, Saeed S.; Neil, Katelyn M.; Hinzman, Michelle – Education and Training in Autism and Developmental Disabilities, 2020
The authors in this study used a pre-posttest experimental design with random assignment to treatment or control group to assess the use of an electronic editing cognitive strategy. The participants were 16 college students with intellectual and developmental disabilities enrolled in a 2-year postsecondary program at a Midwestern institute of…
Descriptors: Students with Disabilities, Intellectual Disability, Developmental Disabilities, Instructional Effectiveness
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Tosuncuoglu, Irfan; Kirmizi, Özkan – International Online Journal of Education and Teaching, 2019
The present study was undertaken to measure the metacognitive writing awareness of university-Flevel learners. The participants of the study are 101 students of English Language and Literature, enrolled at a state university in Turkey. The grade level of the students ranges from the first grade to the fourth grade. In order to collect data, a…
Descriptors: Metacognition, Advanced Students, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning