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Busching, Beverly A.; And Others – 1989
To understand more fully how students' usable knowledge about writing is activated by texts, a study examined how the manipulation of specific text characteristics in the constructed texts influences the verbalization of evaluative criteria. Twenty-seven fifth grade students from a predominantly rural middle school in the southeastern United…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Cognitive Structures, Comparative Analysis, Grade 5
Download full textLawson, Bruce, Ed.; And Others – 1989
Designed to raise the full range of hermeneutic concerns regarding evaluation of student writing, and to spur further research and discussion, this collection of essays focuses on a reconsideration of the interpretation and evaluation practices of writing teachers. Essays include: "A Reflective Conversation: 'Tempos of Meaning'"…
Descriptors: Grading, Higher Education, Reader Text Relationship, Student Evaluation
Bauer, Robert K.; Shlechter, Theodore M. – 1990
This study addressed the writing of college educated officers compared to their overall performance in an introductory Army course. The effects of an effective writing (communicative skills) program and a remedial enrichment program were also examined. A total of 137 U.S. Army lieutenants, who were students in the 15-week Military Police Officer…
Descriptors: College Graduates, Communication Skills, Evaluation Methods, Introductory Courses
California State Dept. of Education, Sacramento. – 1990
This handbook, intended for English language arts teachers, principals, curriculum and testing specialists, superintendents, and all educators interested in preparing students for the grade 8 California Assessment Program (CAP) writing assessment, provides the practitioner with information about the content of the test, the rationale underlying…
Descriptors: English Instruction, Grade 8, Junior High Schools, Language Arts
Sommers, Jeffrey – 1983
The student-teacher memo is a self-evaluative technique that shifts responsibility for writing development from teacher to student. Including descriptions of the intended audience, purpose, and perceived effect of a completed paper, along with specific questions the student would like the teacher/reader to answer on problems in the essay, the…
Descriptors: Audiences, Elementary Secondary Education, Higher Education, Interpersonal Communication
Robinson, Ann – 1985
A study investigated the effects of teacher probes, a type of questioning, on children's written revisions. Subjects, 260 children from grades two through six in a midwestern school district of moderate size, were randomly assigned to one of two conditions (probe or comment). Subjects in both conditions were presented with a story starter that…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Elementary Education, Evaluation Methods, Holistic Evaluation
Quellmalz, Edys S.; Burry, James – 1983
The Center for the Study of Evaluation's (CSE) expository and narrative rating scales have been developed to meet the need for instructionally relevant methods for assessing students' writing competence. Research indicates that large numbers of raters can be trained in the use of these scales and that, during training and independent rating, they…
Descriptors: Evaluation Criteria, Evaluators, Expository Writing, Holistic Evaluation
Ackerman, Terry A. – 1986
The purpose of this paper is to compare the precision of direct and indirect measures of writing assessment using the test information functions from a graded response Item Response Theory (IRT) model. Subjects were 192 sophomore English students from a parochial high school in Wisconsin. Both direct and indirect measures of writing ability were…
Descriptors: Correlation, Essay Tests, High Schools, Interrater Reliability
Valentino, Marilyn J. – 1986
In response to a nationwide concern for quality education and academic preparedness, the Ohio State Board of Education created in 1983 the Early English Composition Assessment Program (EECAP) for improving the writing competency of exiting high school students. Faculty from more than 15 two- and four-year institutions and many more high schools…
Descriptors: College School Cooperation, High Schools, Higher Education, Inservice Teacher Education
White, Edward M.; Polin, Linda G. – 1986
A three phase study evaluated the comparative effectiveness of various features that comprise a postsecondary writing program. The first phase of the study examined the college composition programs on the 19 California State University (CSU) campuses to identify and describe distinctive program features. The second and third phases measured both…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Instructional Development, Instructional Effectiveness, Instructional Improvement
Perkins, Kyle – 1984
This study investigates the strength of relationships between direct measures (holistic scores for free writing samples) and indirect measures (the Test of Ability to Subordinate) of attained writing proficiency in English as a second language. Subjects were 67 undergraduate foreign language students enrolled in Basic Composition for Foreign…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Higher Education, Language Tests, Regression (Statistics)
Gee, Thomas W. – 1984
A study examined the relationships between the quality of writing on composition examinations and topic selection, outlining, rough drafting, and revision. A sample of 1,372 grade twelve students' essays was examined. Among the issues examined were how topic selection affects the final essay score, if and how selection of topic affects the type or…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Essay Tests, Grade 12, High Schools
Nystrand, Martin – 1984
Intensive peer review is a method of teaching expository writing developed two years ago by A. N. Doane and now used extensively in freshman expository writing at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Students meet regularly in groups of four three times a week over the course of the term to share and critique each other's writing. The instructor…
Descriptors: Group Discussion, Higher Education, Language Processing, Peer Evaluation
Bloom, Diane S. – 1985
The Registered Holistic Scoring Method, which has been used for one year to score the ninth grade writing test of the New Jersey High School Proficiency Test, is described. Registered Holistic Scoring was developed from the previous holistic approach in order to provide more reliable scoring guidelines year after year. Two trained evaluators…
Descriptors: Essay Tests, Evaluation Criteria, Grade 9, Holistic Evaluation
Marklund, Inger, Ed.; Carlsson, Marianne, Ed. – School Research Newsletter, 1986
During the 1984-85 school year, pupils in three age groups participated in an international survey to discover ways in which pupils are taught written composition, what they write, and how their achievements are assessed. The three age groups were: (1) those who had reached or were approaching the end of the class-teacher stage, (2) those who had…
Descriptors: Educational Background, Elementary Secondary Education, Essays, Family Characteristics
