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Wood, Susan – National Institute for Learning Outcomes Assessment, 2021
If assessment is about improving learning and facilitating better teaching through research and helping students learn what higher education purports to value, then the often-invisible institutional barriers that do not always embrace the ways in which classroom assessment can teach an institution about student learning within individual…
Descriptors: Writing Evaluation, Basic Writing, College Students, Writing Attitudes
Negretti, Raffaella – ProQuest LLC, 2009
In the past few years, the number of students placing into developmental or remedial college courses has grown considerably. Research is needed to explore the learning dynamics of underprepared students and to offer insights for practice. However research in the developmental field so far has lacked a scholarly, rigorous approach, and research in…
Descriptors: Grounded Theory, Writing Strategies, Self Efficacy, Writing Processes
Heaney, April – Journal of Basic Writing (CUNY), 2006
In this description of a learning community for "at-risk" and basic writing students at the University of Wyoming, I outline the reasons our students resist academic writing prior to their entry into college--reasons largely unrelated to typical perceptions of at-risk students as "lazy" or intellectually less capable. For…
Descriptors: High Risk Students, Critical Reading, Critical Thinking, Writing Processes
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Reed, W. Michael; Vandett, Nancy M. – Research & Teaching in Developmental Education, 1988
Compares the quality and syntactic complexity of 2 types of essays written by 44 college freshmen in a basic writing course. Essays dealing with group-phenomenon events (intensification) had more words per clause, but received lower quality scores than essays dealing with individually experienced events (initiation). (PAA)
Descriptors: Basic Writing, College Students, Comparative Analysis, Discourse Analysis
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Strauss, Susan; Xiang, Xuehua – Written Communication, 2006
This article examines writing conference discourse in one English as a Second Language (ESL) basic composition course. The study is based on a 25,000-word corpus of 10 writing conference interactions between the instructor and seven students. Through a microlevel analysis, the authors demonstrate how and to what degree the writing conference can…
Descriptors: Teacher Student Relationship, Self Evaluation (Individuals), Metacognition, English (Second Language)
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Walker, Cynthia L. – Research and Teaching in Developmental Education, 1997
Presents results from a study of eight college freshman to determine differences between revising essays on-screen and on-paper. Eighty-one percent of on-screen changes were above the mechanical or word level, often related to meaning and content. Students working on-screen tended to add more information and recreate paragraphs, but sometimes…
Descriptors: Basic Writing, College Students, Computer Assisted Instruction, Computer Uses in Education