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Meaghan McKenna; Hope Gerde; Nicolette Grasley-Boy – Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 2025
This article describes the development and administration of the "Kindergarten-Second Grade (K-2) Writing Data-Based Decision Making (DBDM) Survey." The "K-2 Writing DBDM Survey" was developed to learn more about current DBDM practices specific to early writing. A total of 376 educational professionals (175 general education…
Descriptors: Writing Evaluation, Writing Instruction, Preschool Teachers, Kindergarten
Tessier, Jack T.; Tessier, Lisa M.; Gashler, Daniel; Levitt, Cheryle; London, Julie; West, Benjamin S.; Winters, Nancy – College Teaching, 2023
College faculty faces decisions about how to provide feedback on written work. We compared the quality of student writing and student impressions of feedback from both full and minimal markup methods. There was only one significant difference in the quality of writing or content between full and minimal markup. Students scored the functionality of…
Descriptors: Feedback (Response), Writing Instruction, Writing Improvement, Writing Skills
Yue Huang; Joshua Wilson – Journal of Computer Assisted Learning, 2025
Background: Automated writing evaluation (AWE) systems, used as formative assessment tools in writing classrooms, are promising for enhancing instruction and improving student performance. Although meta-analytic evidence supports AWE's effectiveness in various contexts, research on its effectiveness in the U.S. K-12 setting has lagged behind its…
Descriptors: Writing Evaluation, Writing Skills, Writing Tests, Writing Instruction
Rebecca Sickinger; Tineke Brunfaut; John Pill – Language Testing, 2025
Comparative Judgement (CJ) is an evaluation method, typically conducted online, whereby a rank order is constructed, and scores calculated, from judges' pairwise comparisons of performances. CJ has been researched in various educational contexts, though only rarely in English as a Foreign Language (EFL) writing settings, and is generally agreed to…
Descriptors: Writing Evaluation, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
Tong Li; Sarah D. Creer; Tracy Arner; Rod D. Roscoe; Laura K. Allen; Danielle S. McNamara – Grantee Submission, 2022
Automated writing evaluation (AWE) tools can facilitate teachers' analysis of and feedback on students' writing. However, increasing evidence indicates that writing instructors experience challenges in implementing AWE tools successfully. For this reason, our development of the Writing Analytics Tool (WAT) has employed a participatory approach…
Descriptors: Automation, Writing Evaluation, Learning Analytics, Participatory Research
Abdullah Alshakhi – Educational Process: International Journal, 2025
Background/purpose: Writing is an essential skill for EFL learners, and the development of flawless writing proficiency in English is the intended learner outcome of every writing course in an EFL program. Development of flawless writing skills involves perfection in orthography (spelling, punctuation, capitalization), grammaticality and syntax,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Language Teachers, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
Reagan Mozer; Luke Miratrix; Jackie Eunjung Relyea; James S. Kim – Journal of Educational and Behavioral Statistics, 2024
In a randomized trial that collects text as an outcome, traditional approaches for assessing treatment impact require that each document first be manually coded for constructs of interest by human raters. An impact analysis can then be conducted to compare treatment and control groups, using the hand-coded scores as a measured outcome. This…
Descriptors: Scoring, Evaluation Methods, Writing Evaluation, Comparative Analysis
Masumeh Rahimivand; Saeideh Ahangari; Nasrin Hadidi Tamjid – Language Testing in Asia, 2025
Writing comprehensibly, dynamically, and persuasively in a foreign language is a significant challenge for learners. Written communication assesses language and writing progress for various summative and developmental goals. Scenario-based assessment (SBA), as one of the methodologies of classroom-based assessment (CBA), aims to elicit both…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
Chris W. Gallagher Ed. – College Composition and Communication, 2019
This symposium enacts a debate over a high-stakes question for writing studies: How does standardization within and across writing programs enable or constrain our democratic aspirations? It includes: (1) "Everything-but-the-Kitchen-Sink Assessment " (Gerald Graff and Cathy Birkenstein); (2) "Assessment, Coherence, and…
Descriptors: Writing Instruction, Democracy, Standards, Student Evaluation
Aisah Apridayani; Wei Han; Kanyanat Sakkanayok – Asian-Pacific Journal of Second and Foreign Language Education, 2024
Despite the critical role of academic English writing proficiency in higher education, existing research has inadequately addressed the comparative impact of teacher-led and student-involved assessments on writing outcomes. To address the research gap, this study aimed to evaluate the effectiveness of 'Teacher-Only Assessment' compared to…
Descriptors: English for Academic Purposes, Writing Skills, Self Evaluation (Individuals), Second Language Learning
Elliott, Jenny; Southern, Alex – Curriculum Journal, 2021
This paper outlines the processes of creating a 'Storymaker Wheel', a creativity evaluation tool conceptualised with input from a children's book author, a children's book illustrator, academics and teachers, for teachers and pupils to use to support and develop their creative writing. It documents the ways in which teachers and pupils engaged…
Descriptors: Evaluation Methods, Writing Evaluation, Writing Instruction, Creative Writing
Lu, Xiaofei,; Wu, Jifeng – Modern Language Journal, 2022
This study proposed a set of measures for assessing noun phrase (NP) complexity in second language (L2) Chinese writing and compared the predictive power of these measures for L2 Chinese writing quality to that of a set of syntactic complexity measures based on the topic-comment unit (TC-unit). Our data consisted of 101 narratives written by…
Descriptors: Writing Instruction, Syntax, Chinese, Second Language Learning
Ariel M. Goldenthal; Jessica Matthews; Courtney Adams Wooten; Brian Fitzpatrick; Lourdes Fernandez – Journal of Response to Writing, 2022
Despite a wealth of research on feedback practices in synchronous and asynchronous courses, little has been done to investigate such practices in hybrid writing pedagogy. How do instructors make choices about providing feedback when both instructional modes are operating in a course? A qualitative study conducted with 14 instructors who teach…
Descriptors: College Faculty, College Students, Blended Learning, Feedback (Response)
Albesher, Khaled B. – International TESOL & Technology Journal, 2022
Despite intensive essay writing courses at Saudi universities, ESL students are unable to develop their English writing skills. Finding an appropriate teaching approach, such as the process approach, may help them improve their writing abilities and enable them to do so more successfully. This research aims to find out how and what Saudi ESL…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Second Language Instruction, Language Teachers, English (Second Language)
Al-Bargi, Abdullah – Arab World English Journal, 2022
Remote online second language (L2) writing instruction, in general, and remote online L2 writing assessment, in particular, require a holistic structural approach that results in improving students' L2 writing, as well as offering an authentic and fair assessment of students' L2 writing performance. The study described in this paper employed a…
Descriptors: COVID-19, Pandemics, Writing Instruction, Second Language Instruction