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Baron, Joan Boykoff – Educational Measurement: Issues and Practice, 1984
The Connecticut Assessment of Educational Progress assesses writing traits using different approaches to diagnose students' skills. These include multiple choice, direct assessment, "revising test," dictation, and note-taking. These measures and scoring guides are used to assess several elements of good writing. (DWH)
Descriptors: Basic Skills, Essay Tests, Holistic Evaluation, Minimum Competencies
Fadale, LaVerna M.; Finger, Anne – 1988
A study was undertaken to determine the impact of the new writing component pioneered by New York State on General Educational Development (GED) performance or passing rates. Data were collected in two phases: Phase I dealt with passing rate data prior to the introduction of the writing sample to the writing subtest; Phase II was begun during the…
Descriptors: High School Equivalency Programs, Postsecondary Education, Program Improvement, State Programs
British Columbia Dept. of Education, Victoria. – 1978
This resource package has been prepared as a means for distributing not only the results of the 1978 British Columbia Assessment of Written Expression but also to provide educators with clear, well-organized, classroom-ready materials which will assist them in teaching and evaluating the skills of written expression. It contains all of the test…
Descriptors: Educational Assessment, Foreign Countries, Grade 12, High Schools
Allen, Russ; And Others – 1981
These three booklets include the writing assessment tests of the Wisconsin Pupil Assessment Program for grades 5, 8, and 11. The first exercise in each booklet is the writing of a story using a photograph as the stimulus. The second exercise is the revision of a story written previously. The eleventh grade test also includes a third exercise:…
Descriptors: Educational Assessment, Elementary Secondary Education, Essay Tests, State Programs
British Columbia Dept. of Education, Victoria. – 1978
This resource package has been prepared as a means for distributing not only the results of the 1978 British Columbia Assessment of Written Expression but also to provide educators with clear, well-organized, classroom-ready materials which will assist them in teaching and evaluating the skills of written expression. It contains all of the test…
Descriptors: Educational Assessment, Elementary Education, Foreign Countries, Grade 4
Oregon State Dept. of Education, Office of Assessment and Evaluation, Salem. – 1998
This official scoring guide for writing presents details of the 6-point scoring system used in Oregon schools for the 1989-99 school year. It list attributes of students' responses to merit a score from 1 (lowest) to 6 (highest) in the areas of ideas/content, organization, voice, word choice, sentence fluency, conventions, and citing sources. (RS)
Descriptors: Citations (References), Elementary Secondary Education, Language Usage, Scoring
Fredrick, Vicki – 1985
The 1981 and 1984 studies of revision, developed by the Wisconsin Pupil Assessment Program, are described in this document, which examines how well students are able to revise their own papers. Contents include an explanation of how the 1981 and 1984 evaluation criteria were created; an overview of the results of the 1984 revision study for grades…
Descriptors: Educational Assessment, Elementary Secondary Education, Revision (Written Composition), State Programs

Sachse, Patricia P. – Educational Measurement: Issues and Practice, 1984
Texas Assessment of Basic Skills tests are criterion-referenced measures administered to students in grades 3, 5, and 9. Written compositions are part of the test battery and are scored holistically. The Texas approach to measuring written composition consists of elements including magnitude, scoring system, and effect on instruction. (DWH)
Descriptors: Basic Skills, Criterion Referenced Tests, Elementary Secondary Education, Essay Tests

Hermann, Faith; Williams, Paul L. – Educational Measurement: Issues and Practice, 1984
The Maryland Functional Writing Program is designed to increase student performance in writing through improved instructional and assessment procedures. The Declared Competencies Index lists two writing goals supported by 39 objectives. A combination of direct and indirect writing assessment is used. (DWH)
Descriptors: Essay Tests, Functional Literacy, Grade 7, Grade 9
University of South Florida, Tampa. Coll. of Education. – 1980
This report describes the procedures followed in scoring the October 1978 Florida Minimal Writing Production Skills Assessment and reports the results of that assessment. The assessment was conducted on a sample of Florida public school students in grades 3, 5, 8, and 11. Sections include descriptions of the rating scale and scorer's guide as well…
Descriptors: Educational Assessment, Elementary Secondary Education, Interrater Reliability, Minimum Competency Testing
Scheiber, Howard J. – 1981
This report contains information on the 1980 Basic Skills Assessment Writing Sample that the New Mexico State Department of Education administered to over 1,000 tenth grade students. Sections of the report provide the following information: (1) background data and an explanation of holistic scoring, which was used in the assessment; (2)…
Descriptors: Educational Assessment, Evaluation Methods, Grade 10, Holistic Evaluation
Peters, Eileen – 1981
Treating all major aspects of the writing assessment process, this manual is designed to help school districts evaluate writing in order to improve students' writing skills. The first major section of the manual presents background information on general measurement issues, such as evaluating writing ability by means of direct and indirect…
Descriptors: Discourse Analysis, Educational Assessment, Elementary Secondary Education, Evaluation Methods

Gabrielson, Stephen; And Others – Applied Measurement in Education, 1995
The effects of presenting a choice of writing tasks on the quality of essays produced by eleventh graders were studied with 34,200 students in Georgia. The choice condition had no substantive effect on the quality of essays, but race, gender, and the writing task variable did. (SLD)
Descriptors: Essay Tests, Grade 11, High School Students, High Schools
Texas Education Agency, Austin. Div. of Educational Assessment. – 1984
This manual contains the writing objectives and measurement specifications for grades 3, 5, and 9, for use by teachers and other educators responsible for pupil instruction, and for test development specialists involved with preparing the Texas Assessment of Basic Skills tests. The learning objectives are congruent with the "State Board of…
Descriptors: Educational Objectives, Elementary Secondary Education, Grade 3, Grade 5
Afflerbach, Peter – 1985
This paper examined the status of assessment of writing as it is currently performed in the United States. All fifty states and the District of Columbia responded to a survey requesting information on their testing programs. Twenty-six states and the District of Columbia were found to assess writing on the statewide level, and eight states were in…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Evaluation Criteria, Evaluation Utilization, Minimum Competency Testing