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PDF pending restorationMichigan State Dept. of Education, Lansing. Michigan Educational Assessment Program. – 1998
Designed to provide an experience as close as possible to the actual assessment, this paper presents the revised model of assessment in writing for the Michigan High School Test (HST). The revisions incorporated into the paper reflect the testing transition from the High School Proficiency Test to the HST. Session 1 looks at how well students can…
Descriptors: High Schools, Student Writing Models, Test Coaching, Test Content
Peer reviewedWhite, Janet – Research Papers in Education, 1989
Findings are reported from a longitudinal study, involving 8- to 10-year-old students in England, which evaluated and analyzed student writing samples. The writing samples were elicited by tests intended to produce two kinds of writing: a story and a description. (IAH)
Descriptors: Creative Writing, Descriptive Writing, Elementary Education, Foreign Countries
Download full textAmerican Coll. Testing Program, Iowa City, IA. – 1992
In July 1992, American College Testing convened a 5-day meeting to set achievement levels in writing for grades 4, 8, and 12 to be recommended for use in reporting the 1992 National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP). Sixty-six panelists (teachers, non-teacher educators, and non-educators) attended the meeting and participated in the…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Grade 12, Grade 4, Grade 8
California State Dept. of Education, Sacramento. – 1994
This sampler discusses California's English-language arts assessment program and presents examples of high school reading assessments, writing assessments, and writing prompts. The first section of the sampler takes an integrated look at Year One of the California Learning Assessment System (CLAS). The second section presents the scoring guide for…
Descriptors: Evaluation Methods, High School Students, High Schools, Language Arts
California State Dept. of Education, Sacramento. – 1994
This sampler discusses California's English-language arts assessment program and presents examples of elementary school reading assessments, writing assessments, and writing prompts. The first section of the sampler takes an integrated look at Year One of the California Learning Assessment System. The second section presents the scoring guide for…
Descriptors: Elementary Education, Elementary School Students, Evaluation Methods, Language Arts
Alberta Dept. of Education, Edmonton. Student Evaluation Branch. – 1992
Presenting the full range of students' writing, this paper provides administrators, teachers, and students with samples of students' writing that exemplify the criteria used to score responses to the June 1992 Grade 6 English Language Arts Achievement Test. After an introductory section, the paper presents a general commentary; the writing…
Descriptors: Achievement Tests, Elementary School Students, Foreign Countries, Grade 6
California State Dept. of Education, Sacramento. – 1992
This sampler discusses California's English-language arts assessment program and presents examples of high school reading assessments, writing assessments, and writing prompts. The first section of the sampler takes an integrated look at the California's new English-language arts assessment. The second section presents the scoring guide for…
Descriptors: Evaluation Methods, High School Students, High Schools, Language Arts
California State Dept. of Education, Sacramento. – 1992
This sampler discusses California's English-language arts assessment program and presents examples of elementary school reading assessments, writing assessments, and writing prompts. The first section of the sampler takes an integrated look at the changes which make up the new English-language arts assessment. The second section presents the…
Descriptors: Elementary Education, Elementary School Students, Evaluation Methods, Language Arts
California State Dept. of Education, Sacramento. – 1992
This sampler discusses California's English-language arts assessment program and presents examples of middle grades reading assessments, writing assessments, and writing prompts. The first section of the sampler takes an integrated look at the changes which make up the new English-language arts assessment. The second section presents the scoring…
Descriptors: Evaluation Methods, Junior High Schools, Language Arts, Middle School Students
