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Ebuoh, Casmir N. – World Journal of Education, 2018
Literature revealed that the patterns/methods of scoring essay tests had been criticized for not being reliable and this unreliability is more likely to be more in internal examinations than in the external examinations. The purpose of this study is to find out the effects of analytical and holistic scoring patterns on scorer reliability in…
Descriptors: Holistic Approach, Scoring, Essay Tests, Biology
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Aminah, Mimih; Kusumah, Yaya Sukjaya; Suryadi, Didi; Sumarmo, Utari – International Journal of Instruction, 2018
This paper reports the findings of a quasi-experiment that aims to investigate the role of metacognitive teaching-learning (MTL) and mathematical prior knowledge (MPK) on students' mathematical logical thinking ability (MLTA) and self-regulated learning (SRL). The subject of the study was 70 tenth-grade students inSumedang, Indonesia. One…
Descriptors: Metacognition, Mathematical Logic, Mathematics Instruction, Teaching Methods
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Shirazi, Masoumeh Ahmadi; Shekarabi, Zeinab – Iranian Journal of Language Teaching Research, 2014
This study is an attempt to investigate the effect of direct and indirect feedback on the writing performance of Iranian learners of Japanese as a foreign language. During one academic semester, three indirect feedback types including underlining, coding and translation were used as well as direct type of feedback in order to see which one makes a…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Japanese
Wissinger, Daniel R. – ProQuest LLC, 2012
The purpose of this study was to explore the effects of Walton, Reed, and Macagno's (2008) dialectical framework on middle school students' historical discussions and written arguments. To do this,151 middle school students from six classrooms were randomly assigned to one of two conditions and asked to participate in a three-week…
Descriptors: Persuasive Discourse, Middle School Students, Intervention, Control Groups
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Albaaly, Emad; Higgins, Steven – Language Learning Journal, 2012
This study investigated the impact of the interactive whiteboard on Egyptian medical students' achievement in essay writing in English as a second language (ESL). First, the writing micro-skills judged essential to help these students improve their essay writing were identified, using a questionnaire which investigated experts' views. This gave…
Descriptors: Expertise, Experimental Groups, Control Groups, Medical Students
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Willoughby, Teena; Anderson, S. Alexandria; Wood, Eileen; Mueller, Julie; Ross, Craig – Computers & Education, 2009
The purpose of the study was to examine the role of domain knowledge when retrieving and using information from the Internet as a resource for essay tasks, as well as to investigate the quality of Internet searches and its relation to essay performance. In two experiments, 100 undergraduates searched the Internet for 30 min and completed two…
Descriptors: Individual Differences, Correlation, Control Groups, Essays
Song, Minjong; Seong, Myeonghee – Journal of Pan-Pacific Association of Applied Linguistics, 2010
An experimental study explored writing-learning relationship in a Korean college curriculum. Two teachers and 207 students participated and four sections of a freshman English reading course were used. Students in two sections were allocated to an experimental group, and students in the other two sections, to a control group. Based on the premise…
Descriptors: Experimental Groups, Control Groups, Reading Comprehension, College Curriculum