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Basic Skills in Composition: Measurement, Competency Testing, Instructional Technique.

Marzano, Robert J. – 1978

A study was designed to identify highly teachable composing skills that have a strong statistical relationship with composition quality across various grade levels. Sample compositions were randomly selected from the National Assessment of Educational Progress (1972). A total of 750 compositions written by 9-, 13-, and 17-year-old-students (250…

Descriptors: Achievement, Basic Skills, Elementary Secondary Education, Evaluation

On Writing Essay Topics for a Test of the Composition Skills of Prospective Teachers: With a Review of Literature on the Creation, Validation, and Effects of Topics on Essay Examination. Volume Four of Five.

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Hoetker, James – 1979

The literature on essay testing, and particularly the selection of topics which will stimulate the writing of essays, was reviewed in order to recommend a set of specifications that will produce topics that are maximally fair to all teacher certificate candidates. It was found that by far the greater part of the research relating to writing…

Descriptors: Competency Based Teacher Education, Education Majors, Elementary Secondary Education, Essay Tests