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Peer reviewedBuley-Meissner, Mary Louise – Writing on the Edge, 1992
Argues that holistic scoring requires evaluators to suppress their interpretive judgment and treat students' writing differently than in any other situation, based on an analysis of videotaped reader-training sessions for an English Proficiency Essay Exam. (NH)
Descriptors: Evaluation Methods, Evaluation Problems, Higher Education, Holistic Approach
Download full textMyers, Miles – 1980
This book describes a procedure for scoring writing samples with holistic methods and for analyzing the results with methods from primary trait scoring, analytical scoring, and discourse scoring. Following an introduction, the four chapters in the book focus on (1) the selection of topics to be used in a writing assessment, (2) the format for…
Descriptors: Educational Assessment, Evaluation Methods, Holistic Evaluation, Secondary Education
Hawkins, Mary Louise; Marshall, Jon C. – 1981
Based on a writing program evaluation project that took place in the Ferguson-Florissant School District in suburban St. Louis, Missouri, this booklet provides administrators and policymakers with a plan for evaluating their own writing programs and also provides results of the Ferguson-Florissant evaluation. The first chapter contains…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Evaluation Methods, Holistic Evaluation, Program Descriptions
