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Download full textBarrett, Thomas J. – 1994
Students at grades four and five were administered a writing assessment that was developed to correspond to the California Learning Assessment System (CLAS) writing tasks at grade four. Teachers were trained to score the CLAS-like tasks according to the rubric developed by the State for CLAS. In addition, 164 students at three schools in the…
Descriptors: Evaluation Methods, Grade 4, Intermediate Grades, Student Evaluation
Vermont State Dept. of Education, Montpelier. – 1994
The writing samples presented in this paper were selected from the portfolios of eighth-grade Vermont students as examples of the various points in Vermont's newly revised analytic writing assessment guide. The benchmark writing pieces in the paper, when used with the analytic assessment guide that begins the paper, are guideposts for assessing…
Descriptors: Evaluation Methods, Grade 8, Junior High Schools, Portfolio Assessment
Banschbach, John – 1995
Stephen Tchudi, among others, argues that the distinction between expository writing and creative writing is finally a false distinction. Louise Rosenblatt explains that whether readers are reading creative writing or expository writing, they expect the experience of reading to provide them with both information and pleasure. A corollary of these…
Descriptors: College Sophomores, Creative Writing, Expository Writing, Higher Education
Valentino, Marilyn J. – 1992
Teachers' written responses to student writing cover a wide range, and through the kind and amount of response, they convey their values, beliefs, and priorities about language and learning, about the roles of teacher and student, and about the goals of writing. Researchers have found that students respond well to comments on concepts and…
Descriptors: Discourse Communities, Grading, Higher Education, Student Evaluation
Alberta Dept. of Education, Edmonton. Student Evaluation Branch. – 1998
The summary information in this report provides teachers, school administrators, students, and the general public in Alberta, Canada with an overview of results from the June 1998 administration of the English 30 Diploma Examination. The information in the report is most helpful when used in conjunction with the detailed school and jurisdiction…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, High Schools, Reader Response, Reading Achievement
Zhao, Heping – 1992
Victor Raskin's taxonomy of knowledge, based on semantics theory, is adapted and applied to composition in English as a Second Language (ESL). Raskin's classification of knowledge as linguistic and encyclopedic is converted to a continuum from textual to extra-contextual, with contextual knowledge situated between the two. Textual knowledge is…
Descriptors: Cultural Awareness, English (Second Language), Error Patterns, Linguistic Theory
Allen, Michael S. – 1992
A pilot project in portfolio assessment was carried out at Northwest Missouri State University by the English department for the general proficiency assessment which the administration had requested. The portfolio was designed around the central feature of the second semester composition course: the research essay. Besides the research essay, the…
Descriptors: Alternative Assessment, English Departments, Essays, Freshman Composition
Wong, Penelope A. – 1991
A semester-long, introductory, freshman composition class (24 students) engaged in fieldwork, interviews, workshopping, a literature review, an ethnography, and a final paper allowing the student to critique their experiences with the ethnographic process. The first 2 weeks were spent familiarizing students with the ethnographic process. Through…
Descriptors: Class Activities, College English, Ethnography, Freshman Composition
Alberta Dept. of Education, Edmonton. Student Evaluation Branch. – 1992
This booklet has two purposes: to illustrate and compare two important levels of expectation, or standards, set for the Alberta English 30 diploma examination writing (Satisfactory and Excellent) and to provide suggestions to help students move beyond the Satisfactory level by developing their unrealized writing potential. Sample papers from…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Grading, Guidelines, High School Students
Alberta Dept. of Education, Edmonton. Student Evaluation Branch. – 1992
This booklet has two purposes: to illustrate and compare two important levels of expectation, or standards, set for the Alberta (Canada) English 33 diploma examination writing ("Satisfactory" and "Excellent") and to provide suggestions to help students move beyond the Satisfactory level developing their unrealized writing…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Grading, Guidelines, High School Students
Hacker, Tim – 1994
A quasi-experimental study determined the effectiveness of teacher conferences as a modeling technique in freshman composition, as measured by the quantity and quality of selected characteristics in peer response group discourse. Subjects, 22 students in the "experimental" section and 24 students in another section of second semester…
Descriptors: Classroom Techniques, College Freshmen, Discourse Analysis, Freshman Composition
Haynes, Jared – 1993
This bibliography offers detailed summaries of five articles (published between 1983 and 1993) that provide practical and theoretical advice on designing writing assignments that can serve as more than just evaluation tools. The articles summarized in the bibliography confirm common sense but also dispel some common misconceptions about student…
Descriptors: Annotated Bibliographies, Cognitive Development, Critical Thinking, Higher Education
Ryan, Thomas J. – 1993
A practicum addressed the problem of a lack of continuity and consistency in the evaluation of students' papers in grades 6-12. A cohesive, systematic writing evaluation model was designed and implemented for grades 6-12. Teachers, administrators, students, and community members collaborated in the development and implementation of the writing…
Descriptors: Cooperation, Cooperative Planning, Guidelines, Intermediate Grades
Hood, Laura M. – 1994
A study investigated the effects on second graders' writing due to their participation in an electronic mail letter exchange. Subjects were 14 second-grade students who participated in a project on Virginia's Public Education Network, where they corresponded with a person in the character of Winnie-the-Pooh. A pre-test/posttest design was used in…
Descriptors: Electronic Mail, Grade 2, Letters (Correspondence), Primary Education
McRAT Report, 1991
This report describes the instruction, assessment, and staff development of the Multicultural Reading and Thinking (McRAT) program and summarizes the results of a one-year study conducted in 1989-90. (McRAT is a nationally recognized staff development program designed to help teachers infuse higher order thinking skills and multicultural concepts…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Curriculum Enrichment, Elementary Education, Multicultural Education
