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Direct linkSaunders, Paula; Scialfa, Charles T. – Written Communication, 2003
The purpose of Study 1a was to determine the criteria that differentiate students who perform well and those who perform poorly on a standardized test of university-level writing. Discriminant function analysis revealed that measures of structure, sentencing, paragraphing, and grammar play the most important role in separating these two groups.…
Descriptors: Standardized Tests, Academic Achievement, Program Effectiveness, Discriminant Analysis
