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Sumner, Josh – Research-publishing.net, 2021
Comparative Judgement (CJ) has emerged as a technique that typically makes use of holistic judgement to assess difficult-to-specify constructs such as production (speaking and writing) in Modern Foreign Languages (MFL). In traditional approaches, markers assess candidates' work one-by-one in an absolute manner, assigning scores to different…
Descriptors: Holistic Approach, Student Evaluation, Comparative Analysis, Decision Making
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Humphry, Stephen M.; McGrane, Joshua A. – Australian Educational Researcher, 2015
This paper presents a method for equating writing assessments using pairwise comparisons which does not depend upon conventional common-person or common-item equating designs. Pairwise comparisons have been successfully applied in the assessment of open-ended tasks in English and other areas such as visual art and philosophy. In this paper,…
Descriptors: Writing Evaluation, Evaluation Methods, Comparative Analysis, Writing Tests
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Harper, Rowena; Vered, Karen Orr – Higher Education Research and Development, 2017
Communication is widely recognised as an important capability for university graduates [Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development. (2013). "OECD skills outlook 2013: First results from the survey of adult skills." Author. Retrieved from http://dx.doi.org/10.1787/9789264204256-en]. Yet, research suggests that it is often not…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Writing Across the Curriculum, Content Area Writing, Higher Education
Camfield, Eileen Kogl; McFall, Eileen Eckert; Land, Kirkwood M. – Liberal Education, 2016
Introductory biology courses are supposed to serve as gateways for many majors, but too often they serve instead as gatekeepers. Reliance on lectures, large classes, and multiple-choice tests results in high drop and failure rates. Critiques of undergraduate science education are clear about the problems with conventional introductory science…
Descriptors: Science Education, Educational Innovation, Class Size, Introductory Courses
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Behizadeh, Nadia – Educational Researcher, 2014
The dangers of a single story in current U.S. large-scale writing assessment are that assessment practice does not align with theory and this practice has negative effects on instruction and students. In this article, I analyze the connections or lack of connections among writing theory, writing assessment, and writing instruction, critique the…
Descriptors: Writing Instruction, Writing Evaluation, Kindergarten, Elementary Secondary Education
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Applebee, Arthur N.; Langer, Judith A. – English Journal, 2011
In the May 2009 issue of "English Journal", we reported on our analysis of data from the National Assessment of Educational Progress to provide a first look at changes in the teaching of writing over the past 30 years. In this article, we provide a more detailed look, drawing on data collected from visits to 260 English, math, social…
Descriptors: High Schools, Middle Schools, Interviews, National Surveys
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Olson, Carol Booth; Land, Robert; Anselmi, Thelma; AuBuchon, Charlie – Journal of Adolescent & Adult Literacy, 2010
Members of a site of the California Writing Project conducted the study in this article in partnership with a large, urban, low-SES school district where 93% of the students speak English as a second language and 69% are designated Limited English Proficient. Over an eight-year period, a relatively stable group of 55 secondary teachers engaged in…
Descriptors: Writing Evaluation, Learning Strategies, Essays, Limited English Speaking
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Ruetten, Mary K. – College ESL, 1991
Reports on an examination of a group of "problematical" placement essays that received divergent scores by two holistic readers requiring a third reader. It is noted that the divergence seems to result from the process of reading a text that does not fit the reader's expectations. (eight references) (GLR)
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, English (Second Language), Essays, Reader Text Relationship
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Song, Bailin; August, Bonne – Journal of Second Language Writing, 2002
Describes a quantitative study that compared the performance of two groups of advanced English-as-a-Second-Language students in a second semester composition course at the City University of New York (CUNY). Results suggest that students were twice as likely to pass into the second semester course when they were evaluated by portfolio rather than…
Descriptors: College Students, Comparative Analysis, English (Second Language), Evaluation Methods
Roblyer, M. D. – Learning & Leading with Technology, 1997
Introduced to aid writing, word processing can cause unexpected problems for those who use it. Describes four studies in which raters gave word-processed essays consistently lower scores than handwritten essays. Reasons for the discrepancies were higher expectations for typed essays, ease of spotting text errors in typed text, and more difficulty…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Computer Uses in Education, Differences, Elementary Secondary Education
Dunning, Roy – 1994
The evolution of a British communicative language teaching project at the University of Leicester is chronicled. The project brought together local education agencies, examination boards, advisors, teachers, and researchers to develop three levels of graded instructional objectives across the ability range in grades 7-9 and a standardized test,…
Descriptors: Communicative Competence (Languages), Comparative Analysis, Curriculum Development, Educational Objectives