Descriptor
| Minimum Competency Testing | 7 |
| Writing Evaluation | 7 |
| Writing Research | 7 |
| Higher Education | 5 |
| Writing Skills | 5 |
| Educational Assessment | 3 |
| Elementary Secondary Education | 3 |
| Writing Instruction | 3 |
| Annotated Bibliographies | 2 |
| Basic Skills | 2 |
| Testing | 2 |
| More ▼ | |
Author
| Berman, Joe Pettigrew | 1 |
| Cronnell, Bruce | 1 |
| Lederman, Marie Jean | 1 |
| Myers, Miles | 1 |
| O'Shea, Judith | 1 |
| Purnell, Rosentene B. | 1 |
| Smith, C. Michael | 1 |
Publication Type
| Reports - Research | 4 |
| Journal Articles | 2 |
| Reports - Descriptive | 2 |
| Speeches/Meeting Papers | 2 |
| Guides - Classroom - Teacher | 1 |
| Information Analyses | 1 |
| Opinion Papers | 1 |
| Reference Materials -… | 1 |
Education Level
Audience
| Researchers | 1 |
Location
| Canada | 1 |
Laws, Policies, & Programs
Assessments and Surveys
What Works Clearinghouse Rating
Peer reviewedPurnell, Rosentene B. – College Composition and Communication, 1982
Discusses the results of a survey to gather information on the state of the art of testing writing proficiency at the college level. According to the results, many respondents did note positive side effects of the unprecedented growth in testing, particularly its influence on the direction of writing curricula. (HTH)
Descriptors: English Curriculum, Higher Education, Minimum Competency Testing, Testing
Peer reviewedO'Shea, Judith – English Quarterly, 1987
Argues that writing apprehension can be dispositional, but that it can also arise in response to elements in the writing situation. Discusses the elements in timed writing competence tests that can trigger writing apprehension and hinder effective writing. (JK)
Descriptors: Higher Education, Minimum Competency Testing, Test Anxiety, Writing (Composition)
Download full textMyers, Miles – 1981
A four-year study by the Bay Area Writing Project was conducted to determine the writing competency of inner-city secondary school students on proficiency tests. To determine whether patterns among secondary students reflected developmental trends, the study also examined samples of student writing from grades 4 through 12, for the years 1978,…
Descriptors: Content Analysis, Developmental Stages, Elementary Secondary Education, Longitudinal Studies
Berman, Joe Pettigrew; Smith, C. Michael – 1980
A cooperative writing assessment program between a college and seven public school districts was designed to demonstrate that the writing skills necessary for adequate composing were not those that could be measured by an objective test. The goals of the program were to (1) analyze the rhetorical skills of sixth and eighth grade students, (2)…
Descriptors: College School Cooperation, Educational Assessment, Educational Research, Elementary Secondary Education
Lederman, Marie Jean – 1980
The development of the City University of New York's writing assessment test is discussed in this paper. Its relationship to the total freshman skills assessment program, which also involves the assessment of minimal competencies in mathematics and reading, is related. The discussion of the test includes descriptions of the test development…
Descriptors: Basic Skills, Educational Assessment, Higher Education, Holistic Evaluation
Cronnell, Bruce; And Others – 1982
The last of three volumes studying the relationship between writing research and instruction, this four-part report focuses on writing assessment. The first section details specifications for an instrument assessing student writing samples and the following composition skills: word processing, sentence processing, paragraph development,…
Descriptors: Achievement Tests, Annotated Bibliographies, Basic Skills, Educational Assessment
ERIC Clearinghouse on Reading and Communication Skills, Urbana, IL. – 1983
This collection of abstracts is part of a continuing series providing information on recent doctoral dissertations. The 30 titles deal with a variety of topics, including the following: (1) cognitive predictors of writing ability, (2) peer evaluation and teacher evaluation of the first drafts of high school compositions, (3) writing as a tool for…
Descriptors: Annotated Bibliographies, Cognitive Processes, Content Area Writing, Doctoral Dissertations
