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Download full textOregon State Dept. of Education, Salem. – 1985
In the spring of 1985, the Oregon Department of Education conducted an assessment of eighth graders' writing skills. It was the first statewide assessment to be scored analytically according to six traits: ideas and content, organization and development, style, word choice, syntax/sentence structure, and conventions (grammar, punctuation,…
Descriptors: Educational Assessment, Evaluation Criteria, Grade 8, Junior High School Students
Peer reviewedMadaus, George F.; Rippey, Robert M. – Journal of Educational Measurement, 1966
The validity of the multiple-choice Sequential Tests of Educational Progress (STEP) Writing Test (1957) was tested by the University of Chicago Center for the Cooperative Study of Instruction. Seven criteria developed by the center to score essay assignments were used to determine the relationship between STEP and actual writing behavior. Of the…
Descriptors: Communication (Thought Transfer), Educational Testing, English Instruction, Evaluation Criteria
