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Direct linkSchrodt, Katie; FitzPatrick, Erin; Brown, Megan; Hover, Ashlee – Reading & Writing Quarterly, 2023
Motivation impacts student academic performance. A performance task to directly assess writing motivation in young children is needed. The purpose of this investigation was to evaluate the validity of the Writing Challenge Task (WCT), a task-oriented assessment created to measure writing motivation with 106 kindergarten students in the rural…
Descriptors: Writing Assignments, Evaluation Methods, Student Motivation, Kindergarten
L. Hannah; E. E. Jang; M. Shah; V. Gupta – Language Assessment Quarterly, 2023
Machines have a long-demonstrated ability to find statistical relationships between qualities of texts and surface-level linguistic indicators of writing. More recently, unlocked by artificial intelligence, the potential of using machines to identify content-related writing trait criteria has been uncovered. This development is significant,…
Descriptors: Validity, Automation, Scoring, Writing Assignments
Dockrell, Julie E.; Connelly, Vincent; Walter, Kirsty; Critten, Sarah – British Educational Research Journal, 2015
The assessment of children's writing raises technical and practical challenges. In this paper we examine the potential use of a curriculum based measure for writing (CBM-W) to assess the written texts of pupils in Key Stage 2 (M age 107 months, range 88 to 125). Two hundred and thirty six Year three, five and six pupils completed a standardized…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Writing Assignments, Writing (Composition), Standardized Tests
McMaster, Kristen L.; Du, Xiaoqing; Yeo, Seungsoo; Deno, Stanley L.; Parker, David; Ellis, Troy – Exceptional Children, 2011
This study examined technical features of slopes produced from curriculum-based measures (CBM) of beginning writing. Eighty-five first-graders completed weekly sentence copy, picture-word, and story prompts for 12 weeks. After 12 weeks, testing revealed alternate-form reliability and criterion validity of CBM scores generally similar to those…
Descriptors: Beginning Writing, Curriculum Based Assessment, Validity, Reliability
Common Core State Standards Initiative, 2010
This document presents writing samples that have been annotated to illustrate the criteria required to meet the Common Core State Standards for particular types of writing--argument, informative/explanatory text, and narrative--in a given grade. Each of the samples exhibits at least the level of quality required to meet the Writing standards for…
Descriptors: Writing Instruction, Writing Evaluation, Writing Assignments, Evaluation Methods
Beckstead, Larissa – Science and Children, 2008
The typical use of science notebooks is for students to record information as they complete an investigation, writing down their procedure, observations, data, results, graphs, and any other factual information pertaining to their experiment. The author did the same, but also incorporated specific writing assignments to prepare students to publish…
Descriptors: Writing Assignments, Writing for Publication, Investigations, Science Instruction
