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Reese Butterfuss; Rod D. Roscoe; Laura K. Allen; Kathryn S. McCarthy; Danielle S. McNamara – Grantee Submission, 2022
The present study examined the extent to which adaptive feedback and just-in-time writing strategy instruction improved the quality of high school students' persuasive essays in the context of the Writing Pal (W-Pal). W-Pal is a technology-based writing tool that integrates automated writing evaluation into an intelligent tutoring system. Students…
Descriptors: High School Students, Writing Evaluation, Writing Instruction, Feedback (Response)
Reese Butterfuss; Rod D. Roscoe; Laura K. Allen; Kathryn S. McCarthy; Danielle S. McNamara – Journal of Educational Computing Research, 2022
The present study examined the extent to which adaptive feedback and just-in-time writing strategy instruction improved the quality of high school students' persuasive essays in the context of the Writing Pal (W-Pal). W-Pal is a technology-based writing tool that integrates automated writing evaluation into an intelligent tutoring system. Students…
Descriptors: High School Students, Writing Evaluation, Writing Instruction, Feedback (Response)
Kathryn S. McCarthy; Rod D. Roscoe; Laura K. Allen; Aaron D. Likens; Danielle S. McNamara – Grantee Submission, 2022
The benefits of writing strategy feedback are well established. This study examined the extent to which adding spelling and grammar checkers support writing and revision in comparison to providing writing strategy feedback alone. High school students (n = 119) wrote and revised six persuasive essays in Writing Pal, an automated writing evaluation…
Descriptors: High School Students, Automation, Writing Evaluation, Computer Software
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Fogarty, Melissa S.; Davis, John L.; Anderson, Leah L.; Myint, Ahmarlay – Literacy Research and Instruction, 2017
This exploratory study investigated the effects of modifying eighth grade students' purposes for reading through a prompt designed to increase engagement with the text. The current study was conducted using a randomized between-subjects design, with a relevance prompt as the between-subjects factor and reader proficiency as a covariate. A sample…
Descriptors: Grade 8, Learner Engagement, Secondary School Students, Relevance (Education)
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Wolters, Christopher A.; Barnes, Marcia A.; Kulesz, Paulina A.; York, Mary; Francis, David J. – Journal of Educational Research, 2017
The authors' purpose was to examine adolescents' reading motivation in relation to standardized assessments of reading comprehension and fluency. After a reading pretest, 60 ninth-grade students (M age = 14.9 years) were randomly assigned to two groups. Compared to those in the control condition, those administered brief oral feedback intended to…
Descriptors: Reading Comprehension, Reading Fluency, Reading Motivation, Adolescents
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What Works Clearinghouse, 2012
"Reading Edge" is a middle school literacy program that emphasizes cooperative learning, goal setting, feedback, classroom management techniques, and the use of metacognitive strategy, whereby students assess their own skills and learn to apply new ones. The program is a component of the "Success for All"[superscript 2]…
Descriptors: Reading Programs, Reading Instruction, Cooperative Learning, Feedback (Response)