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Peer reviewedReed, W. Michael; And Others – Journal of Research and Development in Education, 1988
Concerns arise about two of the most widely used measurements in writing research because of faulty logic in the construction of the Writing Apprehension Test and the possibility of incomplete analytic procedures using T-unit analyses. Two experiments were conducted to address these concerns. Results are discussed. (Author/MT)
Descriptors: Componential Analysis, Research Methodology, Test Construction, Test Validity
Reed, W. Michael; And Others – 1983
Writing researchers must be concerned with whether the instruments they are using are constructed as soundly as possible and, if so, whether they are performing the necessary analytic procedures to interpret the results correctly. To examine the logic in the construction of J. A. Daly and M. D. Miller's Writing Apprehension Test and the incomplete…
Descriptors: Attitudes, Higher Education, Research Methodology, Research Problems
