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Graham, Steve; Harris, Karen; Hebert, Michael – Carnegie Corporation of New York, 2011
During this decade there have been numerous efforts to identify instructional practices that improve students' writing. These include "Reading Next" (Biancarosa and Snow, 2004), which provided a set of instructional recommendations for improving writing, and "Writing Next" (Graham and Perin, 2007) and "Writing to Read" (Graham and Hebert, 2010),…
Descriptors: Writing Evaluation, Formative Evaluation, Writing Improvement, Writing Instruction
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Shermis, Mark D.; Shneyderman, Aleksandr; Attali, Yigal – Assessment in Education: Principles, Policy & Practice, 2008
This study was designed to examine the extent to which "content" accounts for variance in scores assigned in automated essay scoring protocols. Specifically it was hypothesised that certain writing genre would emphasise content more than others. Data were drawn from 1668 essays calibrated at two grade levels (6 and 8) using "e-rater[TM]", an…
Descriptors: Predictor Variables, Test Scoring Machines, Essays, Grade 8