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Cynthia Puranik; Daphne Greenberg; Zoi Traga Philippakos; Charles MacArthur; Christine Miller; Jennifer Martinez – Grantee Submission, 2025
Students in adult education (AE) programs have limited access to quality writing instruction due to lack of empirical research. The current study is part of a larger research project to design and test the feasibility and effectiveness of a writing curriculum based on strategy instruction with self-regulation. We present the findings of our…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Writing Instruction, Curriculum Development, Instructional Effectiveness
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Kimberly Wolbers; Hannah Dostal; Leala Holcomb; Kelsey Spurgin – Grantee Submission, 2024
Writing is an essential element of literacy development, and language plays a central role in the composing process, including developing, organizing, and refining ideas. Language and writing are interconnected, making it paramount for educators to attend to the development of deaf students' language skills. In this quasi-experimental study, we…
Descriptors: Deafness, Students with Disabilities, Expressive Language, Language Skills
Kathryn S. McCarthy; Rod D. Roscoe; Laura K. Allen; Aaron D. Likens; Danielle S. McNamara – Grantee Submission, 2022
The benefits of writing strategy feedback are well established. This study examined the extent to which adding spelling and grammar checkers support writing and revision in comparison to providing writing strategy feedback alone. High school students (n = 119) wrote and revised six persuasive essays in Writing Pal, an automated writing evaluation…
Descriptors: High School Students, Automation, Writing Evaluation, Computer Software
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Burstein, Jill; McCaffrey, Daniel; Elliot, Norbert; Beigman Klebanov, Beata – Grantee Submission, 2020
Writing achievement is a complex skill set as characterized by the sociocognitive writing framework, including writing domain knowledge (e.g., sentence structure), general cognitive skills (e.g., critical thinking) and intra- (e.g., interest) and interpersonal (e.g., collaboration) subfactors. During students' postsecondary careers, they need to…
Descriptors: Writing Achievement, Postsecondary Education, College Students, Writing Instruction
Park, Christina; Arshan, Nicole; Milby, Allison; Goetz, Rebecca – Grantee Submission, 2021
Developed by the National Writing Project (NWP), the College, Career, and Community Writers Program (C3WP) seeks to improve students' argument writing by building teachers' understanding of and skill in teaching source-based argument writing. The program features intensive professional development, skill-based instructional resources, and…
Descriptors: Writing Instruction, Persuasive Discourse, Program Evaluation, Instructional Effectiveness
Ross C. Anderson; Erin A. Chaparro; Keith Smolkowski; Rachel Cameron – Grantee Submission, 2023
Though argumentative writing is a vital skill across diverse content areas and domains, most U.S. students perform below grade level in writing, and teachers are often unprepared to address this shortfall because their training approaches writing as a subspecialty of reading rather than its own unique discipline. Writing instruction and assessment…
Descriptors: Persuasive Discourse, Formative Evaluation, Writing Evaluation, Scoring Rubrics
Kay Wijekumar; Karen R. Harris; Steve Graham; Pui-Wa Lei – Grantee Submission, 2022
A central goal of upper elementary schools is improving students' skills to write persuasively using source materials. This study focused on three essential areas of writing at the upper elementary grade levels. First, children learned skills to read and use source materials through the web-based intelligent tutoring system for the text structure…
Descriptors: Grade 5, Persuasive Discourse, Writing (Composition), Electronic Learning
Smolkowski, Keith; Strycker, Lisa A.; Anderson, Lynne; Marconi, Peggy; Abia-Smith, Lisa – Grantee Submission, 2020
This pilot study evaluated a novel professional development (PD) model designed to prepare K-12 educators in high-need, rural school districts to teach evidence-based argument writing. The PD showed teachers how to engage students in discussions about visual art using Visual Thinking Strategies to enhance students' argumentation writing. Twenty…
Descriptors: Visual Learning, Discussion (Teaching Technique), Critical Thinking, Persuasive Discourse
Wang, Elaine Lin; Matsumura, Lindsay Clare; Correnti, Richard; Litman, Diane; Zhang, Haoran; Howe, Emily; Magooda, Ahmed; Quintana, Rafael – Grantee Submission, 2020
We investigate students' implementation of the feedback messages they received in an automated writing evaluation system ("eRevise") that aims to improve students' use of text evidence in their writing. Seven 5th and 6th-grade teachers implemented "eRevise" (n = 143 students). Qualitative analysis of students' essays across…
Descriptors: Feedback (Response), Writing Evaluation, Computer Software, Grade 5
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MacArthur, Charles A.; Traga Philippakos, Zoi A.; May, Henry; Compello, Jill – Grantee Submission, 2021
The paper presents the results of a randomized experimental study of a writing curriculum for college developmental writing courses based on strategy instruction with self-regulation integrated with practices common in college composition. Students in a full semester course learned strategies for planning and revising based on rhetorical analysis…
Descriptors: Learning Strategies, Metacognition, Writing Instruction, Self Efficacy
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Rod D. Roscoe; Erica L. Snow; Laura K. Allen; Danielle S. McNamara – Grantee Submission, 2015
The Writing Pal is an intelligent tutoring system designed to support writing proficiency and strategy acquisition for adolescent writers. A fundamental aspect of the instructional model is automated formative feedback that provides concrete information and strategies oriented toward student improvement. In this paper, the authors explore…
Descriptors: Intelligent Tutoring Systems, Automation, Feedback (Response), Revision (Written Composition)
Wolbers, Kimberly; Dostal, Hannah; Graham, Steve; Branum-Martin, Lee; Kilpatrick, Jennifer; Saulsburry, Rachel – Grantee Submission, 2018
A quasi-experimental study was conducted to examine the impact of Strategic and Interactive Writing Instruction on 3rd-5th grade deaf and hard of hearing students' writing and written language compared to a business-as-usual condition (treatment group N = 41, comparison group N = 22). A total of 18 hours of instruction was provided for each of two…
Descriptors: Elementary School Students, Grade 3, Grade 4, Grade 5
McNamara, Danielle S.; Jacovina, Matthew E.; Snow, Erica L.; Allen, Laura K. – Grantee Submission, 2015
Work in cognitive and educational psychology examines a variety of phenomena related to the learning and retrieval of information. Indeed, Alice Healy, our honoree, and her colleagues have conducted a large body of groundbreaking research on this topic. In this article we discuss how 3 learning principles (the generation effect, deliberate…
Descriptors: Learning Processes, Instructional Design, Intelligent Tutoring Systems, Writing Instruction
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Crossley, Scott A.; Varner, Laura K.; McNamara, Danielle S. – Grantee Submission, 2013
Linguistic properties of writing prompts have been shown to influence the writing patterns contained in student essays. The majority of previous research on these prompt-based effects has focused on the lexical and syntactic properties of writing prompts and essays. The current study expands this research by investigating the effects of prompt…
Descriptors: Persuasive Discourse, Prompting, Writing Instruction, Essays
Wolbers, Kimberly A; Dostal, Hannah M; Graham, Steve; Cihak, David; Kilpatrick, Jennifer R; Saulsburry, Rachel – Grantee Submission, 2015
Strategic and Interactive Writing Instruction (SIWI) has led to improved writing and language outcomes among deaf and hard of hearing (DHH) middle grades students. The purpose of this study was to examine the effects of SIWI on the written expression of DHH elementary students across recount/personal narrative, information report, and persuasive…
Descriptors: Writing Achievement, Elementary School Students, Writing Instruction, Deafness