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Emily Dux Speltz – ProQuest LLC, 2023
Writing is an essential skill for success in many academic and professional settings. Despite receiving individualized feedback on their writing, many students struggle with writing in postsecondary education. This dissertation addresses this gap by focusing on the writing process--the moment-by-moment actions taken during writing--rather than the…
Descriptors: Writing Instruction, Individualized Instruction, Automation, Feedback (Response)
Braithwaite, Virginia Ann – ProQuest LLC, 2019
Until 2014, admission requirements for the educator preparation program at a university in the north central United States included a minimum competency level on the Praxis I basic skills writing test and completion of one general education writing course. However, evidence from the university's ETS reports showed that less than 60% of students as…
Descriptors: Preservice Teachers, Preservice Teacher Education, Writing (Composition), Writing Instruction
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Dvorak, Kevin – Communication Center Journal, 2018
In January 2018, Nova Southeastern University opened the NSU Writing and Communication Center (WCC), an innovative academic work environment that offers writing and communication assistance to all 20,000-plus NSU students. A key component of the WCC is its online writing and communication resources. These resources are made available to all NSU…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Library Services, Writing (Composition), Academic Support Services
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Boggs, George L.; Stewart, Trevor Thomas; Jansky, Timothy A. – Journal of Adolescent & Adult Literacy, 2018
The language of economics and economic imperatives are driving standardized school reform in the United States without input from teachers. This teacher action research project responds to concerns about contemporary school reforms by considering how economics-minded dialogue about literacy education can help teachers support students' literacy…
Descriptors: Economic Factors, Literacy Education, Educational Change, Action Research
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Kostopoulou, Stergiani; O'Dwyer, Fergus – Language Learning in Higher Education, 2021
This evidence-based, procedural paper outlines academic writing peer review practices conducted by Pre-Master's Pathway and pre-undergraduate Foundation programme students at two Irish universities. The theoretical framework section presents the view that formative teacher feedback on student writing alone is insufficient, suggesting sustainable…
Descriptors: Peer Evaluation, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Undergraduate Students
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Torgerson, David; Torgerson, Carole; Mitchell, Natasha; Buckley, Hannah; Ainsworth, Hannah; Heaps, Clare; Jefferson, Laura – Education Endowment Foundation, 2014
The Grammar for Writing intervention is a curriculum intervention aimed at improving writing skills by providing contextualised grammar teaching. This evaluation was set up as an effectiveness trial to test the impact of a four-week version of Grammar for Writing, delivered with the developer leading the recruitment and retention of the schools…
Descriptors: Grammar, Writing (Composition), Writing Skills, Program Evaluation
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Holtz, Jill; McCurdy, Merilee; Roehling, Julia V. – Research in the Schools, 2015
Within a Response to Intervention (RtI) framework, Tier 1 instruction requires the selection of research-based core curricula. However, many educators and administrators are not aware of high-quality core writing curricula. The authors assembled a rubric to assist schools in evaluating core writing curricula for Grades 3-5. Rubric components…
Descriptors: Core Curriculum, Writing Across the Curriculum, Elementary School Students, Intermediate Grades
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Torgerson, David; Torgerson, Carole; Ainsworth, Hannah; Buckley, Hannah; Heaps, Clare; Hewitt, Catherine; Mitchell, Natasha – Education Endowment Foundation, 2014
Self-Regulated Strategy Development (SRSD) is a writing process model in which students are encouraged to plan, draft, edit, and revise their writing. In this evaluation 23 primary schools and their Year 6 teachers in the Calderdale area of West Yorkshire were randomly allocated to receive training in the SRSD approach from an external consultant.…
Descriptors: Writing (Composition), Writing Instruction, Elementary School Students, Elementary School Teachers
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Good, Jennifer; Shumack, Kellie – Journal of Faculty Development, 2013
Innovations in faculty development, particularly those that make the most of available technologies, are essential. "Learning is a social activity and we are social beings; and everything is connected" (Trammel & Bruce, 2008). Finding methods for creating these faculty connections is a challenge--one that can be met by technology.…
Descriptors: Faculty Development, Writing (Composition), Writing Instruction, Online Courses
Erickson, Joey Jason – ProQuest LLC, 2011
This dissertation reports my study of the institutionally situated challenges involved in designing and maintaining Rhetoric and Composition doctoral program websites via two primary research methods. First, I conduct content analyses of nine methodically selected doctoral program websites in order to develop a detailed set of site…
Descriptors: Rhetoric, Web Sites, Heuristics, Writing (Composition)
MacCudden, Renae Marie – ProQuest LLC, 2010
Teaching children to write successfully is an area of great concern to educators in the 21 st century. According to the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) data, the writing skills of two-thirds of the students in elementary, middle, and high school are below grade level proficiency (Persky, Daane, & Jin, 2003). In 2003, the…
Descriptors: Transformational Generative Grammar, Program Evaluation, Research Methodology, Formative Evaluation
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Cosgrove, Cornelius – College Composition and Communication, 2010
This article argues for and models an approach to writing program assessment that relies on study of the writing practices of program graduates as a way to inform revisions in curriculum and teaching practices. The article also examines how conducting such assessments can help nondisciplinary publics understand the nature of composition …
Descriptors: Curriculum Development, College Graduates, Program Effectiveness, Educational Change
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Beidler, Peter G. – WPA: Writing Program Administration, 1991
Lists six recommendations made by consultants who evaluated a writing program at Lehigh University. Gives a brief history of the problem that led to each of the recommendations. Offers five tips for others who are thinking of doing a writing program evaluation. (MG)
Descriptors: Consultants, Higher Education, Program Effectiveness, Program Evaluation
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McLeod, Susan H. – WPA: Writing Program Administration, 1991
Describes the institutional and programmatic context in which a consultant-evaluation visit was requested at Washington State University and the evaluators' recommendations and subsequent changes that have taken place. Lists five reasons for requesting an evaluation. (MG)
Descriptors: Higher Education, Program Administration, Program Effectiveness, Program Evaluation
Washington, Thomas P.; And Others – 1980
This booklet outlines procedures for evaluating a school district's writing program that was designed to overcome the adverse educational and social effects of minority group isolation by improving the academic achievement of minority group students. The first section describes how the writing program addressed three of the school district's…
Descriptors: Educational Assessment, Elementary Education, Minority Group Children, Program Effectiveness
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