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Download full textAlberta 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
Philips, David, Ed. – 1992
This collection presents 15 articles on writing, three of them new and 12 of them representing the best of the 500 articles published since 1974 in "SET: Research Information for Teachers," a twice-yearly publication by the New Zealand and Australian Councils for Educational Research aimed at teachers, students, board members, and…
Descriptors: Class Activities, Elementary Secondary Education, Foreign Countries, Grammar
Black, Laurel, Ed.; And Others – 1991
This document presents the seven best 1991 portfolios, written by high school students entering Miami University (Ohio) seeking credit and advanced placement as part of the university's optional portfolio writing program. The program requires students to submit four pieces: (1) a reflective letter introducing the writer and the portfolio; (2) a…
Descriptors: Anthologies, College Applicants, Essays, Evaluation Methods
Stern, Caroline – 1991
A writing portfolio provides material to use in evaluating not only students' finished products but also their persistence in developing and revising to a finished draft. Typically, portfolios contain the assignment sheet, brainstorming exercises, essay plan/outline, and first through final drafts of all writing. A table of contents sheet, listing…
Descriptors: College English, Higher Education, Portfolios (Background Materials), Process Approach (Writing)
Harrison, Suzan – 1991
Eckerd College in Florida has instituted portfolio assessment in writing classes, a method which invites students to engage in learning on a variety of levels. Portfolios encourage students to consider the responses of various readers in their revision processes, claim ownership of their writing, review the papers they have written in college,…
Descriptors: Evaluation Methods, Higher Education, Portfolios (Background Materials), Student Evaluation
Bentley, Robert H. – 1991
A study at Lansing, Michigan Community College investigated whether the current policy of grading the students according to the number of errors in their compositions was actually helping the students to make fewer errors in their writing. Error data were collected from 4 graded essays from each of 311 students in 2 writing courses (one on…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Error Correction, Expository Writing, Higher Education
Hall, Susan; Hall, Palmer – 1991
Computer technology such as telecommunications software and electronic mail allowed students in advanced writing courses at Incarnate Word College and St. Mary's University in Texas to exchange comments about their papers. The intention of the writing teachers was to emphasize the role that invention and planning play in writing, to highlight the…
Descriptors: Audience Awareness, Computer Networks, Electronic Mail, Higher Education
Bertrand, Carol V. – 1983
To investigate factors influencing holistic writing evaluations, writing samples from children in grades two and five were evaluated holistically by a team of teachers. Papers were rated from one, for a poorly written paper, to four, for an excellent paper at that grade level. Correlations were run between holistic ratings and both traditional…
Descriptors: Cohesion (Written Composition), Correlation, Elementary Education, Grade 2
Burry, James; Quellmalz, Edys – 1983
The Center for the Study of Evaluation (CSE) has developed expository and narrative rating scales to meet the need for instructionally-relevant methods for assessing students' writing competence. The scales employ analytic rating procedures to meet the assessment needs of identifying specific areas of strength and weakness for individual students,…
Descriptors: Evaluation Methods, Expository Writing, Measurement Techniques, Rating Scales
