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Download full textCalifornia State Dept. of Education, Sacramento. – 1989
This booklet outlines the California state guidelines for writing which assert that students should be carefully taught to read and compose many types of discourse to prepare them for higher education, the job market, and citizenship in democracy. The booklet summarizes the purposes for which the California Assessment Program (CAP) was developed,…
Descriptors: Academic Standards, Grade 12, Grade 8, Secondary Education
Romano, Tom – 1991
This paper describes the senior honors thesis (a multigenre research paper), and narrates the process by which a senior English major at the University of New Hampshire and her project advisor worked together on this semester-long project. In the first section, the multigenre research paper is defined as a work that combines poems, monologues,…
Descriptors: Creative Writing, Higher Education, Learning Processes, Literary Genres
Takala, Sauli; Vahapassi, Anneli – 1983
Twenty countries are participating in the IEA International Study of Written Composition, for which this is a background report. school-based writing in particular, this report discusses the functions of writing from the point of view of culture, cognition, and child development. It also presents a usable model for constructing and evaluating…
Descriptors: Child Development, Child Language, Cognitive Processes, Cultural Context
Boss, Roberta S. – 1989
Drawing from a review of the literature and a comparative study of evaluation techniques, this paper offers a rationale for the use of performance appraisal as a method of evaluating student writing. The literature review covers: (1) various roles played by composition teachers, including the students' audience of one, writing coach, and Socratic…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Classroom Techniques, Community Colleges, Cooperative Learning
Lofqvist, Gert; Lindell, Ebbe – 1989
In Sweden the International Association Evaluation of Educational Achievement in written composition study involved 4,500 students from grades 6 and 9, as well as students from the terminal grades of the upper secondary school. Students wrote essays of various kinds and replied to questionnaires. Essays were evaluated according to content,…
Descriptors: Essays, Expository Writing, Foreign Countries, Grade 6
Partridge, Susan – 1990
Students' essays are increasingly being included in the assessment of their writing ability. One scholar feels that in contrast to more traditional tests of writing ability, the Written Language Assessment bases its assessment on whole pieces of text the students write. The essays represent three different types of writing: expressive,…
Descriptors: Childrens Writing, Educational Change, Educational Innovation, Elementary Secondary Education
Connecticut State Dept. of Education, Hartford. – 1986
The Connecticut Mastery Test was designed to assess specific skill levels of students by measuring performance on various learning objectives that students can be expected to master. The grade 4 Connecticut Mastery Test, given for the first time in the fall of 1985, provides information which can be used to improve instruction and the basic skills…
Descriptors: Academic Standards, Achievement Tests, Behavioral Objectives, Grade 4
Hayes, Mary F., Ed.; And Others – 1981
Prepared by classroom teachers, the papers in this collection combine practical knowledge with recent findings from writing research. Among the topics discussed in the 25 papers are (1) student teacher conferences, (2) using poetry to develop writing fluency, (3) writing as a learning process, (4) oral and written discourse, (5) creative dramatics…
Descriptors: Content Area Writing, Creative Dramatics, Elementary Secondary Education, Expository Writing
Coffman, William E. – 1986
These comments provide further details which expand upon the recommendations of the subcommittee on National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) Writing. Three issues are discussed. The first concerns how objectives of assessment in writing ought to be stated. The 1984 objectives are stated in general terms without reference to what might…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Educational Assessment, Educational Objectives, Educational Testing
Newmann, Fred M. – 1986
Social studies assessment for the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) should focus on students' oral and written discourse on social topics. Discourse is language produced by the student with the intention of providing a narrative, argument, explanation, or analysis. The assessment of discourse is important because: emphasis on…
Descriptors: Discourse Analysis, Educational Assessment, Educational Testing, Elementary Secondary Education
Vardell, Sylvia M.; Burris, Nancy A. – 1986
A study examined the use and understanding of literary elements by students in grades 3, 6, 9, and 12. Students read L. Peck's folktale, "Coyote's Gift to Turkey Girl," and wrote a story of their own. The stories were then analyzed for their objective content (genre conventions, characterization, plot, and setting) and subjective content (kind and…
Descriptors: Characterization, Child Development, Comparative Analysis, Content Analysis
Stevenson, Zollie, Jr. – 1985
A study examined the correlations and predictive relationships between reading and language achievement test scores and North Carolina Annual Writing Assessment scores. Subjects, over 1,000 sixth and ninth grade students, were administered both the North Carolina Annual Writing Assessment and the California Achievement Test (CAT) in 1984 and 1985.…
Descriptors: Achievement Tests, Elementary Secondary Education, Language Skills, Language Tests
Alberta Dept. of Education, Edmonton. – 1986
This proficiency exam for ninth-year French is comprised of a composition test and a reading comprehension test. The composition test consists of general instructions, the description of a subject about which the student is to write a narrative, and space for organizing, drafting, and writing a final copy of the composition. The reading…
Descriptors: Advanced Courses, French, Integrated Activities, Language Proficiency
Stansfield, Charles W. – 1986
A history of the Test of Written English (TWE), a section of the Test of English as a Foreign Language (TOEFL), describes its inception and development process. The new test is a thirty-minute essay test providing a measure of a non-native English-speaker's ability to perform academic writing tasks similar to those required of international…
Descriptors: Educational History, English (Second Language), Essay Tests, Foreign Students
Carlman, Nancy – 1985
A study examined whether Canadian twelfth grade students' papers would rate differently when they were written in different modes and whether there are significant differences between global (modified holistic) scores and rhetorical effectiveness (modified primary trait) scores for the same papers. Fifty students wrote on two transactional topics…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Discourse Modes, Evaluation Methods, Foreign Countries
