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Portfolio and Test Essay: The Best of Both Writing Assessment Worlds at SUNY Brockport. ERIC Digest.
Download full textBrand, Alice G. – 1992
The principal goals of the State University of New York (SUNY) Brockport's large-scale writing assessment are to determine if a writing program actually helps students to write better and, if so, whether that growth can be measured during the college years. Portfolio assessment has become an attractive alternative to single-test essay at SUNY…
Descriptors: Alternative Assessment, College Outcomes Assessment, Higher Education, Portfolios (Background Materials)
Bouffler, Chrystine, Ed. – 1992
Recognizing that increasing pressure for greater accountability has accompanied recent economic changes, this book presents 11 articles on literacy evaluation and assessment. They are: (1) "Evaluation: A Political Issue" (Wendy Crebbin); (2) "Understanding Evaluation" (Kaye Lowe and Bill Bintz); (3) "A Difficult Balance:…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, English (Second Language), Foreign Countries, Literacy
Wolfe, Barbara; And Others – 1993
Noting that Oregon has been a pioneer in developing assessments which require actual student writing, this booklet includes a collection of student essays and shows how they were evaluated by teachers. The sample essays in the booklet are useful in staff development activities and may also be shared with students, serving as models to help…
Descriptors: Alternative Assessment, Elementary Education, Evaluation Methods, Process Approach (Writing)
Wolfe, Barbara; And Others – 1993
Noting that Oregon has been a pioneer in developing assessments which require actual student writing, this booklet includes a collection of student essays and shows how they were evaluated by teachers. The sample essays in the booklet are useful in staff development activities and may also be shared with students, serving as models to help…
Descriptors: Alternative Assessment, Evaluation Methods, Process Approach (Writing), Secondary Education
Wolfe, Edward W.; Feltovich, Brian – 1994
This paper presents a model of scored cognition that incorporates two types of mental models: models of performance (i.e., the criteria for judging performance) and models of scoring (i.e., the procedural scripts for scoring an essay). In Study 1, six novice and five experienced scorers wrote definitions of three levels of a 6-point holistic…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Criteria, Essays, Evaluation Methods
Zumwalt, Judy – 1994
A study examined sex differences among peer writing tutors concerning the use of discipline-specific terms and the suggestion of revision strategies. Subjects, four male tutors, four female tutors, four male students, and four female students, were tape recorded for 11 minutes during one-on-one same-sex and opposite-sex peer conferences.…
Descriptors: College Students, Discourse Analysis, Higher Education, Peer Teaching
North 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
