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Download full textNorth Carolina State Dept. of Public Education, Raleigh. – 1994
Providing information to help develop students' sense of narrative and to show them specific test-taking strategies, this publication is helpful to teachers as they ready their students for the North Carolina Fourth Grade Writing Assessment. The publication provides materials on generating ideas for writing, selecting topics, revising, developing…
Descriptors: Grade 4, Intermediate Grades, Story Grammar, Test Wiseness
Texas Education Agency, Austin. – 1990
This guide, made up of transparencies and text, offers a basis for a 2-day interactive inservice presentation on how to teach writing, to help a school district ensure that its English language arts program addresses the Texas Assessment of Academic Skills (TAAS) test. In addition to sections on the use of the guide and the format of the TAAS…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Inservice Education, Process Approach (Writing), State Standards
Alberta Dept. of Education, Edmonton. Student Evaluation and Records Branch. – 1989
This collection of student essays provides illustrations of the criteria used to grade the composition portion of the sixth-grade achievement test used in Alberta (Canada). An introductory section describes the procedures for selecting the essays used, establishing scoring norms, and scoring the tests, and offers general comments on the writing…
Descriptors: Achievement Tests, Evaluation Criteria, Foreign Countries, French
Engelhard, George, Jr. – 1991
A many-faceted Rasch model (FACETS) is presented for the measurement of writing ability. The FACETS model is a multivariate extension of Rasch measurement models that can be used to provide a framework for calibrating both raters and writing tasks within the context of writing assessment. A FACETS model is described based on the current procedures…
Descriptors: Grade 8, Holistic Evaluation, Interrater Reliability, Item Response Theory
Thompson, Thomas C. – 1991
A study examined whether teachers in different personality type groups respond to student writing in different, possibly predictable ways. Nine teaching assistants at Florida State University responded to student essays and took the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI), which measures several personality preferences. Using the MBTI scores, the…
Descriptors: Freshman Composition, Higher Education, Personality Assessment, Personality Measures
Frick, Jane; Fulton, Karen – 1991
In response to a state-wide request in 1986-87 from the governor of Missouri, public institutions of higher education undertook assessment projects related to their students' basic skills. English faculty at Missouri Western State College conducted a composition assessment project in which they used timed holistically scored writing as a means of…
Descriptors: College Freshmen, Curriculum Evaluation, Higher Education, Holistic Evaluation
Meyers, Miriam – 1983
Responding to students' needs for systematic advice about their writing, a city university developed a voluntary test using student writing samples to evaluate punctuation and grammar, diction, sentence structure, and organization and development. Evaluation of 100 test results revealed that these students, all working adults, showed more control…
Descriptors: Adult Students, Diagnostic Teaching, Diagnostic Tests, Educational Diagnosis
Hampton, Sally – 1989
This teachers' guide responds to some of the more frequently asked questions about teaching and evaluating from Kindergarten through Grade 5. The document is a synthesis of the current research on writing and applies this information to the teaching of writing in the classroom. It is comprehensive in nature and addresses such subjects as…
Descriptors: Instructional Materials, Intermediate Grades, Primary Education, Spelling
Schriver, Karen A. – 1990
Arguing that writers must be able to evaluate the quality and effectiveness of the texts they produce, this paper begins by isolating some of the persistent questions raised by people in education, business, and government who want to judge how well their texts are working. The paper then compares the cognitive processes involved in "reading…
Descriptors: Audience Awareness, Critical Reading, Discourse Analysis, Reader Text Relationship
Alberta Dept. of Education, Edmonton. Student Evaluation and Records Branch. – 1989
This guide to Alberta's French 30 standardized test describes the testing program and administration, the test parts, and test scoring for both teachers and students anticipating taking the test. Dates and times of test administration and scoring dates in 1990 are charted. The two parts of the test are described in some detail, including their…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, French, Graduation Requirements, Language Tests
Manitoba Dept. of Education, Winnipeg. Curriculum Development Branch. – 1988
This preliminary report on the findings of the Manitoba Writing Assessment Program for grade 4 contains a summary of student performance for the provincial sample as a whole. The report is based on a systematic random sample (224 papers) consisting of 50% of all students enrolled in grade 4 English in Franco-Manbitoban schools. Chapter 1 describes…
Descriptors: Achievement Tests, Educational Assessment, English Instruction, Foreign Countries
Manitoba Dept. of Education, Winnipeg. Curriculum Development Branch. – 1988
This preliminary report of the 1988 Manitoba Writing Assessment Program contains a summary of student performance for the provincial sample as a whole. The report is based on a systematic random sample (a total of 186 papers) consisting of 20% of all students enrolled in grade 8 Language Arts in French Immersion programs. Chapter 1 describes the…
Descriptors: Achievement Tests, Educational Assessment, Foreign Countries, Grade 8
Lieberman, David – 1987
One of the goals of writing instruction is to teach students to develop coherence in their writing; however, writing instruction that relies too heavily on logical connections and organizational techniques often introduces so many rules that students lose their personal connection to what they write. Coherence has less to do with structure than…
Descriptors: Coherence, Expository Writing, Identification (Psychology), Logical Thinking
Dyson, Anne Haas; Freedman, Sarah Warshauer – 1990
This paper reviews research about writing that may inform teachers' observations of their students and their decisions about how best to support students' efforts. First, since ways of using written language vary with different social situations, the paper reviews research on how literacy functions in varied communities, including both the…
Descriptors: Cognitive Style, Elementary Secondary Education, Higher Education, Literature Reviews
Gregory, Kemp – 1991
A balanced appraisal of holistic scoring of writing is presented via: examination of the present popularity of holistic scoring; analysis of several weaknesses associated with the holistic scoring method; and recommendations for remedying these weaknesses. Six reasons for the popularity of holistic scoring are: (1) relative lack of expense; (2)…
Descriptors: Child Development, Cost Effectiveness, Elementary Secondary Education, Holistic Evaluation
