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Bratcher, Suzanne – 1994
This book presents specific grading strategies and explicit instructions for using them while offering options which allow teachers to place the grading of writing into a communication context. The book introduces and explains a wide range of evaluation strategies used by classroom teachers to arrive at grades. Samples of student writing accompany…
Descriptors: Elementary Education, Evaluation Methods, Grading, Student Evaluation
Download full textHorgan, Dianne D.; Barnett, Loretta – 1991
Seventy-four college students participated in a peer review assignment. Subjects were asked to write a draft of a three-page paper, distribute copies to three peer reviewers, revise their papers using the resulting feedback from each of the three peer reviewers, and then prepare and submit a final paper. Reviews were scored for the quality and…
Descriptors: College Students, Feedback, Higher Education, Instructional Effectiveness
Emig, Janet; King, Barbara – 1979
Designed to assess students' attitudes toward writing, this scale contains 40 items representing three categories: preference for writing, perception of writing, and process of writing. Respondents circle one of five points ranging from "almost always" to "almost never." Validity, reliability, and normative data are included.…
Descriptors: Attitude Measures, Measures (Individuals), Secondary Education, Student Attitudes
Hartnett, Carolyn – 1980
Designed to identify and tabulate the various cohesive ties in writing, this instrument is a tabulation sheet for recording all instances of cohesive ties. The sheet includes columns for recording the cohesive word, the number of the sentence in which it appears, the referent of the cohesive word, and the number of the sentence in which it…
Descriptors: Cohesion (Written Composition), Elementary Secondary Education, Evaluation Methods, Postsecondary Education
Cohen, Andrew D. – 1983
A feedback technique for second-language compositions is that of "reformulation." This procedure consists of having a native writer of the target language rewrite the learner's essay, preserving all the learner's ideas. The learner then compares this version with the original version, complete with teacher corrections. To determine the benefits of…
Descriptors: Hebrew, Higher Education, Language Research, Learning Activities
Mann, Rebecca – 1988
In response to growing concern about the lack of basic writing skills, this paper presents an overview of the issues involved in selecting a method for the assessment of students' writing skills. After general criteria for determining the appropriateness of a writing evaluation procedure are outlined, the merits and limitations of objective tests…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Evaluation Criteria, Evaluation Methods, Holistic Evaluation
Della-Piana, Gabriel M.; And Others – 1988
This report first presents a brief analysis of the "Standards for Educational and Psychological Testing" that provides the basis for an argument that the test user/purchaser must see the possibilities in uncommon types of assessment before any test developer/publisher is likely to make them available. Next, six criteria (theoretical…
Descriptors: Educational Research, Teacher Student Relationship, Test Construction, Test Use
Alberta Dept. of Education, Edmonton. – 1988
The two parts of Alberta's sixth-year French achievement test are in test booklet form. Part A, the writing test, requires the development of a composition from a story for which the beginning is provided. The booklet contains instructions concerning the procedure and the criteria to be used in evaluating the composition. Space is provided for a…
Descriptors: Achievement Tests, Foreign Countries, French, Language Tests
Georgia State Dept. of Education, Atlanta. – 1988
Intended to familiarize persons with the scoring standards and criteria used for the 6th grade version of the Georgia Criterion-Referenced Writing Test, this scoring manual is in eight sections: (1) an introduction to the scoring dimensions and scale points; (2) definitions of the four scale points; (3) definitions of scoring dimensions and…
Descriptors: Grade 6, Intermediate Grades, Scoring, Scoring Formulas
Walzer, Arthur E. – 1989
"Purpose" is an important term in rhetorical theory and writing pedagogy. An analysis of the presentation of "purpose" in three well-regarded, theory-based textbooks ("Writing in the Liberal Arts Tradition: A Rhetoric with Readings,""Writing with a Purpose," and "Form and Surprise in Composition")…
Descriptors: Definitions, Higher Education, Rhetoric, Textbook Evaluation
Hays, Janice N.; And Others – 1987
A study analyzed argumentative essays written to both friendly and hostile audiences by 40 randomly selected college undergraduate students and 12 randomly selected college-bound high school seniors. After holistic rating, papers were analyzed for degree and kind of audience activity and were also independently evaluated for writers' levels of…
Descriptors: Audience Analysis, Audiences, Essays, Higher Education
North Carolina State Dept. of Public Instruction, Raleigh. – 1988
For the 1987-1988 North Carolina Annual Testing Program in the area of writing assessment, public school students in grades 6 and 8 were tested on the composing characteristics of main idea, supporting detail, organization and coherence. A total of 78,045 sixth-grade students wrote a clarification composition focusing on their favorite place to…
Descriptors: Elementary Education, Grade 6, Grade 8, Holistic Evaluation
Gibbs, Sandra E., Comp. – 1986
In keeping with efforts of the National Council of Teachers of English to promote and recognize excellence in writing in the schools, this booklet presents the rankings of winning entries in the second year of NCTE's Program to Recognize Excellence in Student Literary Magazines in American and Canadian schools, and American schools abroad.…
Descriptors: Awards, Creative Writing, Evaluation Criteria, Layout (Publications)
Stratta, Leslie; Dixon, John – 1982
A seminar was held in England in 1981 to come up with a systematic, detailed analysis of argument and with suggestions on how it should be taught on the secondary level. Within a framework of questions designed to distinguish types and purposes of argument, members of the seminar analyzed four essays paragraph by paragraph. Their comments…
Descriptors: Assignments, Essays, Evaluation Criteria, Instructional Improvement
Quellmalz, Edys – 1980
Measurement problems which jeopardize the reliability and validity of competency-based writing assessments are analyzed. Methods to stabilize rating criteria and readers' application of them are necessary. Most writing assessment programs use guidelines from norm-referenced test methodology. Use of this method of criteria application based on…
Descriptors: Measurement Techniques, Scoring, Test Reliability, Testing Problems
