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| Reports - Descriptive | 2 |
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| Reports - Evaluative | 1 |
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Peer reviewedTaylor, Denny – English Education, 1990
Discusses the "Biographic Literacy Profiles Project," a seminar for teachers and administrators which focused on developing an alternative to current assessment methods in elementary language arts. Shows how the process of changing assessment patterns can reflect the same integrative, holistic goals that teachers have for working with…
Descriptors: Educational Change, Educational Objectives, Elementary Education, Holistic Evaluation
Peer reviewedOlson, Miles C.; Swadener, Marc – English Education, 1984
Describes the Colorado Writing Assessment Program, a testing program that provides two kinds of feedback to teachers and students: (1) a holistic score that measures the general quality of writing and (2) a set of scores on analytic scales that reflect students' achievement in four areas. Concludes that the program works. (FL)
Descriptors: Curriculum Development, Elementary Secondary Education, Evaluation Methods, Higher Education
Peer reviewedDiStefano, Philip; Olson, Miles C. – English Education, 1980
Describes the Colorado Writing Project, a teacher-consultant inservice training program, and presents the results of holistic scoring of papers by students whose teachers had attended inservice meetings conducted by the teacher-consultants. (HTH)
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Holistic Evaluation, Inservice Teacher Education, Institutes (Training Programs)
