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Download full textHubert, David A.; Lewis, Kati J. – International Journal of ePortfolio, 2014
This essay presents the findings of an authentic and holistic assessment, using a random sample of one hundred student General Education ePortfolios, of two of Salt Lake Community College's (SLCC) college-wide learning outcomes: quantitative literacy (QL) and information literacy (IL). Performed by four faculty from biology, humanities, and…
Descriptors: Portfolios (Background Materials), Electronic Publishing, General Education, Student Evaluation
Burkhalter, Nancy – 1993
Two kinds of instruments, atomistic versus holistic, offer different approaches to the grading of writing. This paper briefly discusses the pros and cons of these two philosophies of grading. In addition, the paper presents a holistic, primary-trait scoring instrument that has been used successfully to judge editorials by breaking down the…
Descriptors: Editorials, Grading, Higher Education, Holistic Evaluation
Rabianski, Nancyanne – 1977
Designed to evaluate the degree to which an essay is successful in giving information, this instrument is an analytic/holistic scoring guide for evaluating any writing that contains generalizations supported by elaboration. The following criteria are applied: (1) relevance--any statement that gives information or elaborates on information already…
Descriptors: Evaluation Criteria, Higher Education, Holistic Evaluation, Measures (Individuals)
Spandel, Vicki – 1988
This report provides suggestions on how a language arts writing skills assessment program could be structured to ensure that school districts in Oregon carry out the intent of state standards. The report includes: (1) a list of common curriculum goals that relate to writing; (2) general implications for assessment; (3) criteria for differentiating…
Descriptors: Educational Assessment, Educational Objectives, Elementary Secondary Education, Holistic Evaluation
Winters, Lynn – 1978
The purpose of this study was to investigate the relative validities of four essay scoring systems, reflecting alternative conceptualizations of the writing process, for identifying "competent" writers. Each rater was trained in two of the four scoring systems: General Impression Scoring (GI), Diederich Expository Scale (DES), CSE…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, High Schools, Higher Education, Holistic Evaluation
Peer reviewedSippola, Arne E. – Reading Horizons, 1994
Provides a brief synopsis of whole-language characteristics that could be germane to analyses of basal programs. Presents an assessment tool designed to assist teachers, administrators, and curriculum adoption teams in evaluating the degree to which commercial basal reader programs adhere to whole-language characteristics. (RS)
Descriptors: Basal Reading, Content Analysis, Elementary Education, Holistic Evaluation
Spandel, Vicki – 1988
This report provides suggestions on how a language arts listening skills assessment program could be structured to ensure that school districts meet the Common Curriculum Goals of the public elementary and secondary schools in Oregon. This report includes: (1) a list of common curriculum goals that relate to listening; (2) general implications for…
Descriptors: Educational Assessment, Educational Objectives, Elementary Secondary Education, Holistic Evaluation
Hood, Mike – 1989
The idea-centered freshman composition program at Belmont Abbey College in Belmont, North Carolina, functions not only to meet the immediate needs of freshmen writers, but also to promote the aims of liberal education. The program has three interrelated goals: (1) to engage freshmen writers in "college thinking," defined as giving…
Descriptors: Academic Discourse, Freshman Composition, Higher Education, Holistic Evaluation
PDF pending restorationNorth Carolina State Dept. of Public Instruction, Raleigh. – 1994
This guide presents scoring criteria, the writing prompt, and sample student papers for the grade 8 end of grade persuasive/argumentative composition statewide writing achievement test. The introductory section presents background information on statewide writing tests in North Carolina, scoring writing samples, and the scoring process. The next…
Descriptors: Evaluation Methods, Grade 8, Holistic Evaluation, Junior High Schools
Spandel, Vicki – 1988
This report provides suggestions on how a language arts speaking skills assessment program could be structured to ensure that school districts meet the Common Curriculum Goals of the public elementary and secondary schools in Oregon. This report includes: (1) a list of common curriculum goals that relate to speaking; (2) general implications for…
Descriptors: Educational Assessment, Educational Objectives, Elementary Secondary Education, Holistic Evaluation
Mazzio, Frank – 1988
This report provides suggestions on how a language arts study skills assessment program could be structured to ensure that school districts meet the Common Curriculum Goals of the public elementary and secondary schools in Oregon. This report includes: (1) a list of Common Curriculum Goals that relate to study skills; (2) general implications for…
Descriptors: Educational Assessment, Educational Objectives, Elementary Secondary Education, Holistic Evaluation
Wolcott, Willa; And Others – 1988
The occurrence of discrepant, or non-contiguous, scores during holistic scoring of writing proficiency is usually blamed on variables of the test reader or external factors. It is hypothesized that characteristics of the essays themselves sometimes may generate discrepancies in essay scoring. Data from 152 essays of college sophomores in teacher…
Descriptors: College Students, Essay Tests, Higher Education, Holistic Evaluation
Allen, Michael S.; Roswell, Barbara Sherr – 1989
To link writing assessment more closely to writing pedagogy, a project added a process instrument--a self-evaluation or "postwrite"--to a formal holistic writing assessment. Subjects were 348 freshman composition students at Goucher College. The postwrite asked students, after they had finished writing an essay, to answer four questions…
Descriptors: Freshman Composition, Higher Education, Holistic Evaluation, Process Approach (Writing)
Guerrero, Barry J.; Robison, Ruth E. – 1986
A study was conducted by the Student Development Center of the University of Hawaii at Hilo to develop a writing placement procedure in a community college setting which would be practical, reliable, and valid. The key to this procedure was an English composition placement device that could help readers rate, holistically, writing samples written…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Evaluation Criteria, Evaluation Methods, Holistic Evaluation
Spandel, Vicki – 1988
This report provides suggestions on how a language arts reading skills assessment program could be structured to ensure that school districts meet the Common Curriculum Goals of the public elementary and secondary schools in Oregon. This report includes: (1) a list of common curriculum goals that relate to reading/literature; (2) general…
Descriptors: Educational Assessment, Educational Objectives, Elementary Secondary Education, Holistic Evaluation
