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Direct linkPeckham, Irvin – College Composition and Communication, 2009
This essay describes Louisiana State University's search for an alternative to available placement protocols. Under the leadership of Les Perelman at MIT, LSU collaborated with four universities to develop iMOAT, a program for administering online assessments of student writing. This essay focuses on LSU's On-line Challenge, which developed from…
Descriptors: Student Placement, Writing Instruction, Writing Skills, College Students
Brandvik, Mary Lou; McKnight, Katherine S. – Jossey-Bass, An Imprint of Wiley, 2011
This unique time-saving book is packed with tested techniques and materials to assist new and experienced English teachers with virtually every phase of their job from lesson planning to effective discipline techniques. The book includes 175 easy-to-understand strategies, lessons, checklists, and forms for effective classroom management and over…
Descriptors: Classroom Techniques, Writing Assignments, Educational Technology, Substitute Teachers
Common Core State Standards Initiative, 2010
This document presents writing samples that have been annotated to illustrate the criteria required to meet the Common Core State Standards for particular types of writing--argument, informative/explanatory text, and narrative--in a given grade. Each of the samples exhibits at least the level of quality required to meet the Writing standards for…
Descriptors: Writing Instruction, Writing Evaluation, Writing Assignments, Evaluation Methods
Kiuhara, Sharlene A.; Graham, Steve; Hawken, Leanne S. – Journal of Educational Psychology, 2009
A random sample of language arts, social studies, and science high school teachers (N = 361; 53% women) from the United States were surveyed about what their students wrote, their use of evidence-based writing practices, the adaptations they made for weaker writers, how they assessed writing, their preparation to teach writing, beliefs about the…
Descriptors: Writing Assignments, High Schools, Teacher Education Programs, Language Arts
Peer reviewedCrist, Patricia J.; Shafer, Gregory – English Journal, 2001
Considers special needs students' interactions with high stakes testing and ways in which teachers try to improve the testing environment. Makes a suggestion for different types of evaluations including a semester-ending project that permits choice and engages students in interdisciplinary lessons. (SG)
Descriptors: English Instruction, High Stakes Tests, Secondary Education, Special Needs Students
Download full textAlberta Dept. of Education, Edmonton. Student Evaluation Branch. – 1994
The purpose of this booklet is to illustrate and compare three important levels of expectation, or standards, that have been set for diploma examination writing in English 33 in Alberta, Canada: "3 Satisfactory,""4 Proficient," and "5 Excellent." The booklet presents exemplar papers that were used to illustrate the…
Descriptors: Academic Standards, English Instruction, Evaluation Methods, Foreign Countries
White, Edward M. – 1994
Reorganized and revised, the second edition of this book provides the latest theoretical and practical materials that instructors across the disciplines will need to help students build strong writing skills. It offers suggestions about how to develop effective writing assignments; and it evaluates various methods of assessing student writing,…
Descriptors: English Instruction, Higher Education, Reading Writing Relationship, Student Evaluation
