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Download full textChristine Jackson; Lucy Lu; Peter Knapp; Wai Yin Wan; Olivia Groves – Australian Education Research Organisation Limited, 2022
In 2022 Australian Education Research Organisation (AERO) researchers analysed more than 10 million NAPLAN writing results, spanning 2011 to 2021, and 366 samples of students' NAPLAN writing. Overall, the research suggests that students' writing skills have declined over 7 years (2011 to 2018), with many high school students significantly behind…
Descriptors: Literacy, National Competency Tests, Foreign Countries, Elementary School Students
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Direct linkShanahan, Timothy – Elementary School Journal, 2015
The Common Core State Standards for the English Language Arts, together with the new tests being developed to assess them, are placing a greater emphasis on writing in elementary schools than in the recent past. This article explores similarities and differences of the standards with past state standards, explaining the reason both for why things…
Descriptors: State Standards, Language Arts, Elementary School Curriculum, Educational Change
Fidalgo, Raquel; Torrance, Mark; Garcia, Jesus-Nicasio – Contemporary Educational Psychology, 2008
We compared 56 eighth-grade students who, 28 months previously, had received instruction in strategies for planning and revising their writing, with 21 students of similar academic ability from the same school who had not experienced the intervention. Both groups wrote an expository essay whilst logging their writing activities and completed…
Descriptors: Text Structure, Intervention, Self Efficacy, Writing Instruction
