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Preparing Students with Learning Disabilities for Large-Scale Writing Assessments

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Olinghouse, Natalie G.; Colwell, Ryan P. – Intervention in School and Clinic, 2013

This article provides recommendations for teachers to better prepare 3rd through 12th grade students with learning disabilities for large-scale writing assessments. The variation across large-scale writing assessments and the multiple needs of struggling writers indicate the need for test preparation to be embedded within a comprehensive,…

Descriptors: Learning Disabilities, Elementary Secondary Education, Writing Evaluation, Test Wiseness

Writing Framework and Specifications for the 1998 National Assessment of Educational Progress.

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Center for Research on Evaluation, Standards, and Student Testing, Los Angeles, CA. – 1997

This booklet contains the Writing Framework for the 1998 National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP). The Framework describes the basis for the 1998 Writing Assessment, the types of writing assessed, and the methods for scoring student responses. This Framework was developed during 1989-90 in preparation for the 1992 NAEP Writing…

Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Evaluation Methods, Test Format, Testing Programs

Writing a Writing Assessment: Saying What You Want to Say Isn't as Simple as It Seems.

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Escoe, Adrienne – 1982

Since acceptable writing is essential to success in job training programs and in many entry-level jobs, a writing sample was included in the Training and Employment Prerequisites Survey, a multiple-choice test about skills like mechanics, usage, and spelling. The two writing prompts asked students to give directions for finding a location in a…

Descriptors: Educational Assessment, Evaluation Criteria, Evaluation Methods, Job Skills

Survey of Academic Skills: Grade 12. Rationale and Content for English-Language Arts.

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California State Dept. of Education, Sacramento. – 1989

This educator's guide to the California Assessment Program's English-Language Arts test describes what California's new reading and editing tests do and do not measure. The guide states that each test form consists of one reading passage from literature, science, or history-social science followed by a variety of questions on word meaning and…

Descriptors: Achievement Tests, Editing, English, Grade 12

The Writing Test for New York State Elementary Schools: Development, Form, Implications.

Chew, Charles R. – 1982

Since 1979, New York State has been working on an instrument to evaluate elementary school students' writing ability. Several thousand writing samples were obtained and were analyzed, by a test development committee consisting of elementary school teachers, qualitatively within each grade as high, average, and low, and in terms of organization and…

Descriptors: Essay Tests, Grade 5, Holistic Evaluation, Intermediate Grades

Report of the Eleventh-Grade High School Proficiency Test Writing Skills Development Committee.

New Jersey State Dept. of Education, Trenton. – 1989

The Writing Skills Committee of the New Jersey Department of Education determined that the Eleventh-Grade High School Proficiency Test (HSPT) writing test should be based on contemporary discourse theory that is process oriented and is firmly rooted in real world application of students' skill and knowledge as writers. The committee identified two…

Descriptors: Competency Based Education, Grade 11, High Schools, Minimum Competency Testing

Evaluating Writing: Linking Large-Scale Testing and Classroom Assessment. Occasional Paper No. 27.

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Freedman, Sarah Warshauer – 1991

Writing teachers and educators can add to information from large-scale testing and teachers can strengthen classroom assessment by creating a tight fit between large-scale testing and classroom assessment. Across the years, large-scale testing programs have struggled with a difficult problem: how to evaluate student writing reliably and…

Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Foreign Countries, Informal Assessment, Portfolios (Background Materials)

Building on the Impromptu: A Source-Based Academic Writing Assessment.

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Feak, Christine; Dobson, Barbara – College ESL, 1996

Focuses on the assessment of writing skills of incoming English-as-a-Second-Language college students in the United States and Canada. The article discusses the traditional impromptu essay and its alternatives, portfolio assessment and the Undergraduate Academic Writing Assessment (UAWA). The UAWA reveals students' previously unknown strengths and…

Descriptors: College Students, Curriculum Design, English for Academic Purposes, Essays

Student Achievement Testing Program Bulletin, Grade 6 French Language Arts, 1987-88 School Year=Bulletin du programme de tests de rendement, Francais 6e annee, annee scolaire 1987-88.

Alberta Dept. of Education, Edmonton. Student Evaluation and Data Processing Branch. – 1987

A bulletin concerning Alberta's Grade 6 French language achievement test to be administered in June 1988 provides specific information about the test's design, items, and scoring. It begins with general information about the province's achievement test program in English and goes on to describe and illustrate the French language arts achievement…

Descriptors: Achievement Tests, Cognitive Measurement, Evaluation Criteria, Foreign Countries

Comparison and Contrast: The 1975 California State University and Colleges Freshman English Equivalency Examination.

White, Edward M. – 1976

The third administration of the California State University and Colleges Freshman English Equivalency Examination, a test consisting of an objective examination graded by the Educational Testing Service and an essay examination scored by California State University and College faculty, is analyzed in this report. After a short preface, the first…