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Pelkey, Melissa M. – ProQuest LLC, 2018
An interest in writing practices in the state of Kansas led to a statewide survey of middle school teachers to examine key writing practices and issues. Questions focused on teacher preparation, beliefs, self-efficacy, and sense of responsibility to teach writing; use of evidence-based writing practices; the role of assessment; technology; types…
Descriptors: Writing Instruction, Middle School Students, Middle School Teachers, Writing Teachers
Nam, Daehyeon – ProQuest LLC, 2010
Since Sinclair (1991) concretized the possibilities of processing and analyzing large quantities of text data through corpus linguistic techniques, the applications of corpus linguistic approaches employing authentic language data and empirical evidence have been widely accepted in language teaching and research. As the applications of corpus…
Descriptors: Evidence, Experimental Groups, Control Groups, Undergraduate Students
Cotos, Elena – ProQuest LLC, 2010
This dissertation presents an innovative approach to the development and empirical evaluation of Automated Writing Evaluation (AWE) technology used for teaching and learning. It introduces IADE (Intelligent Academic Discourse Evaluator), a new web-based AWE program that analyzes research article Introduction sections and generates immediate,…
Descriptors: Feedback (Response), Academic Discourse, Writing (Composition), Writing Evaluation