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Grobe, Gary – Research in the Teaching of English, 1981
A 1979 analysis of student expository writing showed that holistic quality scores awarded by teacher-raters were influenced to a greater extent by essay length and freedom from spelling errors. A replication of that investigation using a sample of students' narrative writing produced the same findings. (HOD)
Descriptors: Correlation, Evaluation Criteria, Holistic Evaluation, Predictor Variables