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Alberta Dept. of Education, Edmonton. – 1989
This English Language Arts Achievement Test was designed to evaluate the writing skills of third grade students. It includes instructions in which students are asked to write their own stories after reading a "story starter." The test instructs students to use their imaginations to finish the story and encourages them to do a prewriting…
Descriptors: Achievement Tests, Descriptive Writing, Foreign Countries, Grade 3
Heap, James L. – 1986
A study examined the behavior of first graders as they collaborated on a writing exercise using a word processor. Data were collected over three weeks in the form of fieldnotes and 13.5 hours of videotape of students working at the computer. Videotapes were examined to locate patterns of discourse and physical actions, and by abstracting from the…
Descriptors: Collaborative Writing, Computer Assisted Instruction, Computer Uses in Education, Foreign Countries
