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Guan, Connie Qun; Perfetti, Charles A.; Meng, Wanjin – Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 2015
To examine the importance of manual character writing to reading in a new writing system, 48 adult Chinese-as-a-foreign-language students were taught characters in either a character writing-to-read or an alphabet typing-to-read condition, and engaged in corresponding handwriting or typing training for five consecutive days. Prior knowledge of…
Descriptors: Chinese, Second Language Learning, Educational Quality, Prediction
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McMaster, Kristen L.; Campbell, Heather – School Psychology Review, 2008
The purpose of this study was to examine technical features of new and existing curriculum-based measures of written expression in terms of writing task, duration, and scoring procedures. Twenty-five third-, 43 fifth-, and 55 seventh-graders completed passage-copying tasks in 1.5 min and picture, narrative, and expository writing prompts in 3-7…
Descriptors: Expository Writing, Curriculum Based Assessment, Predictive Validity, Scoring