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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
Download full textNorth Carolina State Dept. of Public Instruction, Raleigh. Div. of Accountability/Testing. – 1999
The purpose of this report is to provide information about the level of student performance in the area of writing based on results for 1998-99 from the annual on-demand writing sample of the North Carolina Writing Assessment at grades 4, 7, and 10 (English II). It notes student performance increased at grades 4 and 7 when compared to student…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Holistic Evaluation, Intermediate Grades, Secondary Education
Roberts, Bryan – 1979
The New Brunswick Writing Assessment Program implemented in grades five, eight, and eleven in New Brunswick (Canada) public schools in 1978 is described in this report, which includes the specific assignments for each grade, a discussion of the general holistic scoring approach used, and characteristics of the responses at each grade, including…
Descriptors: Educational Assessment, Elementary Secondary Education, Foreign Countries, Grade 11
