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Chinn, Judith Alberts – 1983
Using data from three studies, this paper focuses on competency education trends in California in the area of writing. The studies reviewed in the paper examined (1) the competency examinations produced by students in one high school in 1980, (2) the various means employed in 1981 by five school districts in the San Francisco Bay area to implement…
Descriptors: Educational Assessment, English Curriculum, Higher Education, Minimum Competencies
Newman, Jerrie M. – 1982
To evaluate the impact of revision--as distinct from other writing enrichment activities such as peer or teacher feedback--on writing skills, two classes of college-bound high school seniors who voluntarily enrolled in a writing course, were given similar instruction in writing evaluation and skill development. While both classes were permitted to…
Descriptors: Grade 12, High Schools, Peer Evaluation, Prewriting
Alberta Dept. of Education, Edmonton. Student Evaluation and Records Branch. – 1988
This booklet provides Grade 6 teachers, administrators, and students with samples of students' writing that exemplify the criteria used to score students' written responses on the June 1988 Grade 6 English Language Arts Achievement Test. The writing assignment required students to read the beginning of a story and use their imaginations to…
Descriptors: Achievement Tests, Foreign Countries, Grade 6, Intermediate Grades
Gilson, Joan T. – 1989
Because of consistent faculty involvement from its earliest stages, the writing assessment program at the University of Missouri at Kansas City (UMKC) represents a competent, fair, and useful procedure for the large-scale testing and evaluation of student writing. UMKC's assessment curriculum builds on the existing sequence of three composition…
Descriptors: College English, Competency Based Education, English Curriculum, English Departments
Download full textDe Ayala, R. J.; And Others – 1989
The graded response (GR) model of Samejima (1969) and the partial credit model (PC) of Masters (1982) were fitted to identical writing samples that were holistically scored. The performance and relative benefits of each model were then evaluated. Writing samples were both expository and narrative. Data were from statewide assessments of secondary…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Essay Tests, Holistic Evaluation, Interrater Reliability
Herrmann, Andrea W. – 1989
Writing instruction reflects a growing appreciation of the value of talk. By implementing peer writing groups, teachers encourage students to give, seek, and react to oral feedback among themselves as they write, in addition to reacting to the teacher's traditional comments on finished papers. Collaboration in writing groups provides writers with…
Descriptors: Collaborative Writing, Computer Assisted Instruction, Cooperative Learning, Peer Evaluation
Stoneberg, Bert, Jr. – 1987
Under the leadership of the Language Arts Curriculum Committee, the Greater Albany (Oregon) Public Schools conducted a district assessment of writing skills of students in grades 5, 7, 9, and 11, using the "analytic trait scoring" method (ATS). The testing procedure conformed to the writing process implemented through the district's Real…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Grade 11, Grade 5, Grade 7
Hayes, John R.; And Others – 1985
A new model of the revision process in written composition, based on the results of thinking aloud protocol studies, is presented in this report. The report begins by discussing earlier observations and theories of revision that establish four points: (1) there are large differences among writers in the amount of revising they do, (2) expert…
Descriptors: Behavior Patterns, Cognitive Processes, Learning Strategies, Learning Theories
Henning, Grant; Davidson, Fred – 1987
A study evaluated a composition grading scale used in the University of California at Los Angeles' program of English as a second language (ESL). It looked at (1) the comparative difficulty of the subscale categories; (2) the interrelationships of the subscale categories; (3) the incremental arrangement of the subscale categories and performance…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, English (Second Language), Higher Education, Language Tests
Chaudron, Craig – 1983
The effect of evaluation method on English as second language (ESL) learners' revisions of their compositions was investigated. Teacher comments, peer evaluations, and English-speaking peer reformulations were compared. Judges rated the revised compositions of 9 advanced and 14 intermediate college ESL students using the ESL Composition Profile.…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Feedback, Higher Education, Peer Evaluation
Frederiksen, Carl H., Ed.; Dominic, Joseph F., Ed. – 1981
Intended for researchers, teachers, local and national policy makers, and others interested in writing, this volume explores the processes and development of writing, particularly in the context of writing instruction. Following a preface, the introduction discusses various perspectives on the activity of writing, such as writing as a cognitive…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Elementary Secondary Education, Language Acquisition, Learning Theories
University of South Florida, Tampa. Coll. of Education. – 1980
This report describes the procedures followed in scoring the October 1978 Florida Minimal Writing Production Skills Assessment and reports the results of that assessment. The assessment was conducted on a sample of Florida public school students in grades 3, 5, 8, and 11. Sections include descriptions of the rating scale and scorer's guide as well…
Descriptors: Educational Assessment, Elementary Secondary Education, Interrater Reliability, Minimum Competency Testing
Chou, Frank H.; And Others – 1982
A study examined several possible indicators of the quality of student writing to see what relationship, if any, existed among those indicators and the holistic scores given by raters to compositions written for the University System of Georgia's Regents Testing Program. The indicators examined were (1) total number of sentences, (2) average…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Educational Assessment, Evaluation Criteria, Higher Education
Chew, Charles R. – 1982
Since 1979, New York State has been working on an instrument to evaluate elementary school students' writing ability. Several thousand writing samples were obtained and were analyzed, by a test development committee consisting of elementary school teachers, qualitatively within each grade as high, average, and low, and in terms of organization and…
Descriptors: Essay Tests, Grade 5, Holistic Evaluation, Intermediate Grades
Neuner, Jerome L. – 1983
Good and poor explanatory essays of 40 college freshmen were analyzed for 18 cohesive ties and chains to determine the appropriateness of the cohesion system for teaching and evaluating writing. The questions that were specifically addressed were, (1) How do writers use the cohesive resources of the language? and (2) How is cohesion related to…
Descriptors: Cohesion (Written Composition), College Freshmen, Comparative Analysis, Connected Discourse
