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Download full textYoko Suganuma Oi – Journal of Pan-Pacific Association of Applied Linguistics, 2023
This study aims to analyse how Japanese first-year university students' writing anxiety in academic writing classes changed over nine months. A total of 102 Japanese first-year university students participated in an academic writing class. Two assessors evaluated the students' compositions, using the same writing assessment rubric. The students…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, College Freshmen, Academic Language, Anxiety
Direct linkRuegg, Rachael – Assessment & Evaluation in Higher Education, 2016
This exploratory study investigated the effect of assessing both process and product compared to assessing written products alone. Two groups of students received teacher feedback over a one-year period. One group was assessed on their revisions in addition to the quality of final drafts, while a second group was assessed on the quality of final…
Descriptors: Feedback (Response), Student Evaluation, Formative Evaluation, Summative Evaluation
Ruegg, Rachael; Fritz, Erik; Holland, Jennifer – TESOL Quarterly: A Journal for Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages and of Standard English as a Second Dialect, 2011
An examination of the scores given using analytic rating scales can provide insight into how well the scales are measuring what they are supposed to be measuring. Many analytic rating scales include separate scales for lexis and grammar, yet the distinction between lexis and grammar has not been widely researched or defined. It is therefore…
Descriptors: Student Evaluation, Achievement Tests, Rating Scales, Evaluators
Matsuno, Sumie – Language Testing, 2009
Multifaceted Rasch measurement was used in the present study with 91 student and 4 teacher raters to investigate how self- and peer-assessments work in comparison with teacher assessments in actual university writing classes. The results indicated that many self-raters assessed their own writing lower than predicted. This was particularly true for…
Descriptors: Writing (Composition), Self Evaluation (Individuals), Student Evaluation, English (Second Language)
Iida, Atsushi – Assessing Writing, 2008
Japanese poetry, haiku, has been widely accepted in western countries. While previous studies have reported on the applicability of haiku poetry to teaching practices in a variety of contexts, few researchers have discussed assessment which is one of the most important factors in language teaching. The aim of this study is to produce assessment…
Descriptors: Rating Scales, Poetry, Teaching Methods, English (Second Language)
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Fourteen conference papers on classroom techniques for second language teaching are presented, including: "Cooperative Learning at the Post-Secondary Level in Japan" (Steve McGuire, Patricia Thornton, David Kluge); "Shared Inquiry Fosters Critical Thinking Skills in EFL Students" (Carol Browning, Jerold Halvorsen, Denise…
Descriptors: Computer Assisted Instruction, Cooperative Learning, Critical Thinking, Dance
