Many studies have concluded that question generation has a positive effect on students' reading comprehension. However, few studies have delineated how students generate questions from a text and what processes are involved in question generation. This study aims to investigate how the question generation processes improve students' reading…

Argues that the evaluation of a basic writing program can demonstrate a program's effectiveness and can be useful in opening up a dialog among the instructors. Describes an evaluation program that combines a variety of writing assessments (essays, a multiple-choice editing test, and portfolios assessment) that provide a comprehensive examination…

Describes a program at Southeast Missouri State University that uses process recordings, or written records of student-tutor conferences, in peer tutoring and editing sessions for composition courses. Suggests that process recording increases the benefits of peer-editing activities and teaches students to be better readers of their own writing as…