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Troyka, Lynn Quitman – 1982
To ascertain if the descriptive criteria of the original Evaluation Scale of the City University of New York (CUNY) Writing Skills Assessment Test might be refined in the light of CUNY's 4 years of experience with large scale testing, a two-phase study was conducted over the period of 1 year, from May 1981 through June 1982, and involved nearly…
Descriptors: Evaluation Criteria, Higher Education, Holistic Evaluation, Program Evaluation
Purves, Alan C., Ed.; Takala, Sauli, Ed. – Evaluation in Education: An International Review Series, 1982
Papers from the International Association for the Evaluation of Educational Achievement examine the theoretical considerations and cognitive processes of written composition, writing curriculum analysis, school writing domain specifications, the interrelationships of writing task specifications, and scoring of compositions. An analysis of writing…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Curriculum Evaluation, Elementary Secondary Education, Evaluation Criteria
Download full textVickers, Daisy – 1990
The North Carolina Annual Testing Program assessed the writing skills of students in Grade 6 and Grade 8 in the 1989-90 school year. Sixth-grade students were asked to write a clarification composition focusing on a special day and explaining to the reader why the day is special, and eighth-grade students were asked to write a letter to their…
Descriptors: Achievement Tests, Elementary School Students, Expository Writing, Grade 6
Cooper, Charles; Breneman, Beth – 1988
The first statewide direct writing assessment was conducted for grade 8 by the California Assessment Program (CAP) in the spring of 1987. Each student wrote an essay in response to 1 of 15 prompts (writing tasks) representing: (1) an autobiographical incident; (2) a report of information; (3) a solution to a problem; and (4) an evaluation. In all,…
Descriptors: Achievement Tests, Autobiographies, Descriptive Writing, Elementary Education
Claggett, Fran; And Others – 1989
The second statewide direct writing assessment was conducted for grade eight by the California Assessment Program (CAP) in the spring of 1988. Each student wrote an essay in response to 1 of 45 prompts (writing tasks) representing 6 types of writing: autobiographical incident, report of information, problem solution, evaluation, story, and…
Descriptors: Achievement Tests, Autobiographies, Descriptive Writing, Essay Tests
Peer reviewedLinn, Robert L.; And Others – Applied Measurement in Education, 1992
Ten states participated in a cross-state scoring workshop in 1991, evaluating writing from elementary school, middle school, and high school students. Correlation of scores assigned by readers from one state with those from readers from another state were generally quite high. Implications for defining common standards are discussed. (SLD)
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Correlation, Elementary School Students, Elementary Secondary Education
