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Tunagür, Muhammed – Shanlax International Journal of Education, 2021
This research, aims to investigate whether peer assessment application has an effect on writing anxiety and writing motivation of 6th grade students. It is one of the quantitative research designs. The study group of the research consists of 6th grade students attending a secondary school in Turkey. There are 35 students in the study, 17 are in…
Descriptors: Peer Evaluation, Writing Apprehension, Student Motivation, Secondary School Students
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Daniels, Stephanie; McCurdy, Merilee; Whitsitt, Lynnette; Skinner, Christopher H.; Schwartz-Micheaux, Janet; White, Jada – Reading & Writing Quarterly, 2020
Research findings support a relationship between writing self-efficacy and writing production. A multiple-probe across students design was used to evaluate the effects of a writing intervention, which included strategy instruction and cognitive-behavioral components, on the writing production of three middle school students. Visual analysis of…
Descriptors: Self Efficacy, Writing Instruction, Intervention, Correlation
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Lee, Juhee – Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 2020
This study examines the relative contributions of linguistic and affective variables to writing performance among students learning English as a foreign language (EFL) in South Korea. In total, 270 middle school students completed four language tests assessing their reading comprehension, grammar knowledge, and descriptive and argumentative…
Descriptors: Middle School Students, Structural Equation Models, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
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Güler, Nese; Ilhan, Mustafa; Güneyli, Ahmet; Demir, Süleyman – Educational Sciences: Theory and Practice, 2017
This study evaluates the psychometric properties of three different forms of the Writing Apprehension Test (WAT; Daly & Miller, 1975) through Rasch analysis. For this purpose, the fit statistics and correlation coefficients, and the reliability, separation ratio, and chi-square values for the facets of item and person calculated for the…
Descriptors: Writing Apprehension, Psychometrics, Item Response Theory, Tests
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Lansiquot, Reneta – Journal of Interactive Learning Research, 2010
A three-month study examined how interactive iconography impacts social studies and promotes critical writing skills. Groups of three middle-school immigrant students constructed museum labels using "Scope Out", an experimental online revision tool that makes iconography interactive. This study included three comparison groups and one…
Descriptors: Control Groups, Computer Attitudes, Writing Skills, Immigrants
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Pajares, Frank; Johnson, Margaret J.; Usher, Ellen L. – Research in the Teaching of English, 2007
The purpose of this study was to examine the influence of Albert Bandura's four hypothesized sources of self-efficacy on students' writing self-efficacy beliefs (N = 1256) and to explore how these sources differ as a function of gender and academic level (elementary, middle, high). Consistent with the tenets of self-efficacy theory, each of the…
Descriptors: High School Students, Middle School Students, Females, Epistemology