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Direct linkMichael Matta – Journal of Psychoeducational Assessment, 2024
Students with Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) are struggling writers. Yet no comprehensive model has been validated to explain their poor writing outcomes. This study aims to test whether an extended version of the Not-So-Simple View of Writing (NSVW) model can describe the effects of key abilities on writing performance in…
Descriptors: Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder, Writing (Composition), Models, Writing Achievement
van Rijt, Jimmy H. M.; van den Broek, Brenda; De Maeyer, Sven – Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 2021
Among other things, learning to write entails learning how to use complex sentences effectively in discourse. Some research has therefore focused on relating measures of syntactic complexity to text quality. Apart from the fact that the existing research on this topic appears inconclusive, most of it has been conducted in English L1 contexts. This…
Descriptors: Syntax, Secondary School Students, Essays, Persuasive Discourse
Download full textYoujia Hua; Suzanne Woods-Groves; Jeremy W. Ford; Kelly A. Nobles – Education and Training in Autism and Developmental Disabilities, 2014
The purpose of the study was to investigate the effectiveness of teaching a three-step paraphrasing strategy on expository reading comprehension of young adults with intellectual disability. Ten learners from a postsecondary education program for individuals with disability participated in the study. They were randomly assigned to the control and…
Descriptors: Young Adults, Mental Retardation, Reading Comprehension, Writing Skills
Ennis, Robin Parks; Jolivette, Kristine – Journal of Special Education, 2014
Students with emotional and behavioral disorders (E/BD) have academic deficits that affect their success in school. However, there are few research studies investigating what strategies work best for this population, especially in the area of writing. One promising intervention to support the writing skills of students with and at risk for E/BD is…
Descriptors: At Risk Students, Emotional Disturbances, Behavior Disorders, Self Control
Lavelle, Ellen; Bushrow, Kathy – Educational Psychology, 2007
The writing approach framework provides a comprehensive perspective on college-level academic writing based on the relationship of writers' beliefs and strategies to the quality of written outcomes. However, despite increased demands for more and better writing at the graduate level, little is known about graduate-level writing processes or about…
Descriptors: Graduate Students, Writing Strategies, Self Efficacy, Writing Processes
Whalen, Thomas E. – 1971
A study was made of the capability of machine scoring of essays to determine a student's proficiency in English mechanics. A sample of 71 seventh grade essays were entered into a computer via punched cards and were processed using a modified version of the PEGFOR program. Prediction models, subtest models, and restricted models were tested for…
Descriptors: Computer Programs, Essays, Junior High School Students, Language Ability
Whalen, Thomas E. – 1971
The prediction of students' writing ability by the development of multiple regression models was investigated. Seventy-one essays and scores on the California Language Test by average seventh graders were used. Essays were entered in a modified Project Essay Grade (PEG) computer program. Results for three specific models are presented: (1) overall…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Computer Programs, Essays, Grade Prediction
Pajares, M. Frank; Johnson, Margaret J. – 1993
A study investigated the writing self-efficacy, writing outcome expectations, writing apprehension, personal self-efficacy, and writing performance of 30 undergraduate students throughout one semester. Results indicated support for social cognitive theory and prior findings that report a relationship between self-efficacy and performance. A…
Descriptors: Correlation, Higher Education, Models, Predictor Variables
Lynch, Collin F., Ed.; Merceron, Agathe, Ed.; Desmarais, Michel, Ed.; Nkambou, Roger, Ed. – International Educational Data Mining Society, 2019
The 12th iteration of the International Conference on Educational Data Mining (EDM 2019) is organized under the auspices of the International Educational Data Mining Society in Montreal, Canada. The theme of this year's conference is EDM in Open-Ended Domains. As EDM has matured it has increasingly been applied to open-ended and ill-defined tasks…
Descriptors: Data Collection, Data Analysis, Information Retrieval, Content Analysis
