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Download full textColby, Anita Y. – 1986
This digest draws upon the thirteen published volumes of "Inside English" to offer a summary of practitioners' advice on techniques to improve two-year college students' writing skills. First, the paper summarizes underlying principles of writing instruction, indicating that: (1) usage, formal grammar, phonics, and spelling are best…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Feedback, Holistic Evaluation, Teaching Methods
White, Edward M. – 1985
Reflecting the general concern about student writing performance, this book is designed to present recent advances in the theory and practice of assessing writing ability to all teachers of writing, as well as writing examiners and administrators. The book explores (1) reconsidering the links between teaching and assessing writing, (2) the…
Descriptors: Assignments, Holistic Evaluation, Program Evaluation, Revision (Written Composition)
Stoneberg, Bert, Jr. – 1988
Under the leadership of the Language Arts Curriculum Committee, the Greater Albany (Oregon) Public Schools conducted its second annual district assessment of writing skills of students in grades 5, 7, 9, and 11, using the "analytic trait scoring" method (ATS). The testing procedure, diagnostic in purpose, conformed to the writing process…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Grade 11, Grade 5, Grade 7
Borchardt, Donald A. – 1980
A computer assisted system called PEERRATE was used in a theater history course at Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey in Newark, in fall 1980, in order to give students an opportunity to anonymously grade one another's written work and to compare their own ratings with those of fellow students and the instructor. The PEERRATE system is a…
Descriptors: Computer Software, Evaluation Criteria, Evaluation Methods, Grading
Freeman, James Andrew – 1980
A study correlated the results of the Omnibus Personality Inventory (OPI) and two holistically scored narrative writing samples to determine how high school students' intellectual and emotional characteristics affected their writing improvement. Students in a small West Coast high school completed the OPI and generated a pretest writing sample in…
Descriptors: High Schools, Holistic Evaluation, Personality Assessment, Personality Traits
Chinn, Judith Alberts – 1983
Using data from three studies, this paper focuses on competency education trends in California in the area of writing. The studies reviewed in the paper examined (1) the competency examinations produced by students in one high school in 1980, (2) the various means employed in 1981 by five school districts in the San Francisco Bay area to implement…
Descriptors: Educational Assessment, English Curriculum, Higher Education, Minimum Competencies
Newman, Jerrie M. – 1982
To evaluate the impact of revision--as distinct from other writing enrichment activities such as peer or teacher feedback--on writing skills, two classes of college-bound high school seniors who voluntarily enrolled in a writing course, were given similar instruction in writing evaluation and skill development. While both classes were permitted to…
Descriptors: Grade 12, High Schools, Peer Evaluation, Prewriting
Alberta Dept. of Education, Edmonton. Student Evaluation and Records Branch. – 1988
This booklet provides Grade 6 teachers, administrators, and students with samples of students' writing that exemplify the criteria used to score students' written responses on the June 1988 Grade 6 English Language Arts Achievement Test. The writing assignment required students to read the beginning of a story and use their imaginations to…
Descriptors: Achievement Tests, Foreign Countries, Grade 6, Intermediate Grades
Gilson, Joan T. – 1989
Because of consistent faculty involvement from its earliest stages, the writing assessment program at the University of Missouri at Kansas City (UMKC) represents a competent, fair, and useful procedure for the large-scale testing and evaluation of student writing. UMKC's assessment curriculum builds on the existing sequence of three composition…
Descriptors: College English, Competency Based Education, English Curriculum, English Departments
De Ayala, R. J.; And Others – 1989
The graded response (GR) model of Samejima (1969) and the partial credit model (PC) of Masters (1982) were fitted to identical writing samples that were holistically scored. The performance and relative benefits of each model were then evaluated. Writing samples were both expository and narrative. Data were from statewide assessments of secondary…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Essay Tests, Holistic Evaluation, Interrater Reliability
Herrmann, Andrea W. – 1989
Writing instruction reflects a growing appreciation of the value of talk. By implementing peer writing groups, teachers encourage students to give, seek, and react to oral feedback among themselves as they write, in addition to reacting to the teacher's traditional comments on finished papers. Collaboration in writing groups provides writers with…
Descriptors: Collaborative Writing, Computer Assisted Instruction, Cooperative Learning, Peer Evaluation
Stoneberg, Bert, Jr. – 1987
Under the leadership of the Language Arts Curriculum Committee, the Greater Albany (Oregon) Public Schools conducted a district assessment of writing skills of students in grades 5, 7, 9, and 11, using the "analytic trait scoring" method (ATS). The testing procedure conformed to the writing process implemented through the district's Real…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Grade 11, Grade 5, Grade 7
Hayes, John R.; And Others – 1985
A new model of the revision process in written composition, based on the results of thinking aloud protocol studies, is presented in this report. The report begins by discussing earlier observations and theories of revision that establish four points: (1) there are large differences among writers in the amount of revising they do, (2) expert…
Descriptors: Behavior Patterns, Cognitive Processes, Learning Strategies, Learning Theories
Henning, Grant; Davidson, Fred – 1987
A study evaluated a composition grading scale used in the University of California at Los Angeles' program of English as a second language (ESL). It looked at (1) the comparative difficulty of the subscale categories; (2) the interrelationships of the subscale categories; (3) the incremental arrangement of the subscale categories and performance…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, English (Second Language), Higher Education, Language Tests
Chaudron, Craig – 1983
The effect of evaluation method on English as second language (ESL) learners' revisions of their compositions was investigated. Teacher comments, peer evaluations, and English-speaking peer reformulations were compared. Judges rated the revised compositions of 9 advanced and 14 intermediate college ESL students using the ESL Composition Profile.…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Feedback, Higher Education, Peer Evaluation
