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Peer reviewedDuCette, Joseph; Wolk, Stephen – Journal of Experimental Education, 1972
Test format can influence test performance as well as the nature and extent of general classroom achievement. (Authors)
Descriptors: Data Analysis, Essay Tests, Evaluation Methods, Graduate Students
Peer reviewedMarshall, Jon C. – Journal of Educational Research, 1972
Sixteen forms of an essay exam, identical in content but differing in writing neatness and numbers of composition errors, were graded by 480 classroom teachers. The two factors consisted of four writing treatments and four levels of composition errors. No significant differences were found. (Author)
Descriptors: Educational Research, Essay Tests, Grades (Scholastic), Handwriting
Lopez Campillo, Evelyne – Cuadernos Hispanoamericanos, 1971
Descriptors: Essays, Formal Criticism, Literary Influences, Literary Styles
Stevens, John – English Exchange, 1970
Presents the journalistic essay as both appealing to college composition students and helpful in teaching them writing clarity, accuracy, organization, and the integration of narration, description, and exposition. (DD)
Descriptors: College Instruction, Descriptive Writing, English Instruction, Essays
Ortega, Jose – Cuad Hispanoamer, 1970
Descriptors: Cultural Background, Essays, Hispanic American Literature, Mythic Criticism
Fagan, Edward R.; Kozak, Andrew V. – Improving College and University Teaching, 1971
Use of systematic feedback can produce significant improvement in students' writing skills. (Editor)
Descriptors: College Freshmen, Essays, Evaluation, Feedback
Peer reviewedDombroski, Robert – Italica, 1970
Descriptors: Essays, Impressionistic Criticism, Italian Literature, Literary Criticism
Peer reviewedMazzetti, Rita – Hispania, 1971
Descriptors: Analytical Criticism, Diagrams, Essays, Imagery
Boon, Jean-Pierre – French Rev, 1969
Descriptors: Authors, Classical Literature, Critical Thinking, Essays
Valentine, John A. – Comp Educ, 1969
Descriptors: Achievement Tests, Aptitude Tests, Comparative Education, Essay Tests
Peer reviewedTwigg, Helen Parramore – Teaching English in the Two-Year College, 1981
Examines students' amusing responses to essay test questions, while maintaining that such responses can still give a teacher a better indication of what students are learning in the classroom than can objective tests. (HTH)
Descriptors: Error Patterns, Essay Tests, Higher Education, Objective Tests
Peer reviewedMitchelmore, M. C. – British Journal of Educational Psychology, 1981
This paper presents a scientific rationale for deciding the number of points to use on a grading scale in any given assessment situation. The rationale is applied to two common methods of assessment (multiple-choice and essay tests) and an example of a composite assessment. (Author/SJL)
Descriptors: Error of Measurement, Essay Tests, Grading, Higher Education
Peer reviewedBross, Donald C. – Journal of Social Issues, 1979
There is no coherent view of childhood providing a consistent influence on legal decisions. Laws regarding the legal status of children should be better related to the degree of protection required by the child's developmental stage. (Author/EB)
Descriptors: Child Abuse, Child Advocacy, Child Responsibility, Child Welfare
Peer reviewedBajtelsmit, John W. – Educational and Psychological Measurement, 1979
A validational procedure was used, which involved a matrix of intercorrelations among tests reresenting four areas of Chartered Life Underwriter content knowledge, each measured by objective multiple-choice and essay methods. Results indicated that the two methods of measuring the same trait yielded fairly consistent estimates of content…
Descriptors: Essay Tests, Higher Education, Insurance Occupations, Multiple Choice Tests
Peer reviewedAnd Others; Hughes, David C. – Journal of Educational Measurement, 1980
The effect of context on the scoring of essays was examined by arranging that the scoring of the criterion essay would be preceded either by five superior essays or by five inferior essays. The contrast in essay quality had the hypothesized effect. Other effects were not significant. (CTM)
Descriptors: Essay Tests, High Schools, Holistic Evaluation, Scoring
