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Download full textFarr, Roger; And Others – 1989
This study examined writing samples from across the United States to provide information on the writing of students in American high schools, students taking the General Educational Development Examination (GED), and a group of undergraduate students at Indiana University. The report includes findings on writing fluency, correctness of spelling,…
Descriptors: High School Equivalency Programs, High Schools, Higher Education, Spelling
Swartz, Richard; And Others – 1985
In preparation for adding an essay test to the General Educational Development (GED) test, the GED Testing Service undertook a series of studies to establish (1) whether acceptable reading reliabilities were attainable in decentralized holistic scoring sessions often involving no more than a dozen papers; (2) whether essay readers in a variety of…
Descriptors: Essay Tests, High School Equivalency Programs, Scoring, Test Reliability
PDF pending restorationDependents Schools (DOD), Washington, DC. – 1978
The results of two large scale assessment efforts by the United States Department of Defense Office of Dependents Schools (DoDDS) are set forth in tabular form in this booklet. First described is the initial DoDDS assessment of composition skills--administered to several thousand eighth and eleventh grade students in the spring of 1978--that…
Descriptors: Educational Assessment, Federal Government, Language Arts, National Surveys
Swartz, Richard; Whitney, Douglas R. – 1985
The primary purpose of this study was to examine the relationship between scores on the multiple-choice General Educational Development (GED) Writing Skills test and scores on holistically graded essays. Secondary purposes included the following: (1) examining the relationship of essay scores to scores on the multiple-choice GED Reading Skills…
Descriptors: Essay Tests, High School Equivalency Programs, Reading Tests, Test Reliability
Lee, Valerie E. – 1987
Intended to enable Catholic educators to evaluate and compare the writing progress of their students to that of the nation as a whole, this report presents writing achievement data of Catholic school students in grades 4, 8, and 11, assessed in 1983-84 by the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP). A summary of the findings of the NAEP…
Descriptors: Blacks, Catholic Schools, Comparative Analysis, Educational Assessment
Ballator, Nada; Farnum, Marisa; Kaplan, Bruce – 1999
Supplementary to "NAEP 1996 Trends in Academic Progress," this report describes two aspects of writing for which change has been measured since 1984: writing fluency as determined by holistic scoring; and mastery of the conventions of written English as determined by mechanics scoring. The introduction discusses the layout and means of…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Elementary Secondary Education, Grade 11, Grade 4
