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Download full textCONRY, JULIANNE JOYCE – 1967
DATA FROM THE PARAGRAPH ORGANIZATION PORTION OF THE CEEB ENGLISH COMPOSITION TEST (ECT) WERE CONVERTED TO THE ORIGINAL RANK-ORDER AND WERE THEN RESCORED BY THREE SYSTEMS USING SPEARMAN'S RHO TO DETERMINE WHICH METHOD YIELDED SCORES THAT CORRELATED BEST WITH TOTAL ESSAY SCORES. TWO OF THE METHODS INVESTIGATED, ONE IN WHICH THE NUMBER OF SCORES WAS…
Descriptors: Educational Research, English, Essays, Paragraph Composition
Milewski, Glenn B.; Johnsen, Daniel; Glazer, Nancy; Kubota, Melvin – College Board, 2005
The current paper presents the results of a large-scale, national, reading and writing curriculum survey and evaluates the alignment of the survey results to the reading and writing skills measured by the new SAT®. It was hypothesized that the skills measured by the writing and critical reading sections of the new SAT would be aligned to the…
Descriptors: College Entrance Examinations, Standardized Tests, Surveys, Reading Skills
