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Tchudi, Stephen, Comp.; McNabb, Scott, Ed. – 1983
Prepared by college teachers of writing who are also teachers who write, the papers in this collection appear in a sequence that begins with theoretical issues and problems, moves through the stages of the writing process, and ends with a discussion of revision and evaluation. Specific topics covered in the papers include (1) language theory and…
Descriptors: College Faculty, Feedback, Higher Education, Language Usage
Ferrara, Steven; Walker-Bartnick, Leslie – 1989
The viability of the Partial Credit Model (PCM) of G. N. Masters (1982) for scaling and banking individual essay prompts from a statewide writing assessment program was investigated. Preliminary analyses indicated the feasibility of using the PCM, the general polychotomous form of the Rasch model, with essay data from the Maryland Writing Test…
Descriptors: Cues, Equated Scores, Essay Tests, Grade 9
Robertson, Gary; And Others – 1989
A study was conducted to refine the writing scale incorporated into the Peabody Individual Achievement Test-Revised. The test uses a single scale for judging writing samples from students in grades 2 through 12. It was questioned whether a single, relatively brief rating scale could have the sensitivity required to discriminate among the range of…
Descriptors: Elementary School Students, Elementary Secondary Education, Interrater Reliability, Latent Trait Theory
Alberta Dept. of Education, Edmonton. – 1988
As part of an examination required by the Alberta (Canada) Department of Education in order for 12th grade students to receive a diploma in French, this booklet contains the composition component of the June 1988 tests. Divided into three essay questions for a total writing time of 2.5 hours duration, parts 1 and 2 of the test require essays that…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Achievement Tests, Canadian Literature, Foreign Countries
Download full textKnudson, Ruth E. – 1989
A study was conducted to test the effectiveness of four instructional strategies on students' writing. Students, 138 fourth, sixth, and eighth graders in a semi-rural school district in southern California, were instructed in informational writing through one of four instructional strategies: (1) presentation of model pieces of writing; (2)…
Descriptors: Content Area Writing, Grade 4, Grade 6, Grade 8
Ferrara, Steven F. – 1987
Statistical equating of scores from direct writing assessments is performed in Maryland to hold the difficulty of passing the Maryland Writing Test (MWT) equivalent from year to year and to allow a demonstration of growth in student writing achievement over the years. Passage of the test is a high school graduation requirement. Prior to…
Descriptors: Equated Scores, Essay Tests, Graduation Requirements, High School Students
Mueller, Lyn Zalusky; And Others – 1987
Designed to assist primary teachers in creating a classroom environment that stimulates students' growth in writing, this guide offers suggestions, lists, charts, and activities for classroom use in the primary grades. Following a preface and philosophy, the first section discusses young writers and the writing process, with subsections on stages…
Descriptors: Basic Skills, Classroom Environment, Content Area Writing, Course Content
New Jersey State Dept. of Education, Trenton. – 1986
This Technical Report provides descriptions and summary data that assist measurement specialists in assessing the procedures used in developing New Jersey's High School Proficiency Test (HSPT), the technical qualities of the tests, and the statewide results obtained from its use. The data summarized in this report were collected during the various…
Descriptors: Equated Scores, Graduation Requirements, High Schools, Item Analysis
Freedman, Sarah Warshauer; And Others – 1987
Noting that while writing teachers acknowledge that responding to their students' writing is central to their teaching, they still express frustration about how to make their response effective. This book describes a two-part study conducted to discover how the nation's most successful writing teachers respond to their students' work. The first…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Evaluation Methods, Interpersonal Relationship, Teacher Effectiveness
Alberta Dept. of Education, Edmonton. Student Evaluation and Data Processing Branch. – 1987
A bulletin concerning Alberta's Grade 6 French language achievement test to be administered in June 1988 provides specific information about the test's design, items, and scoring. It begins with general information about the province's achievement test program in English and goes on to describe and illustrate the French language arts achievement…
Descriptors: Achievement Tests, Cognitive Measurement, Evaluation Criteria, Foreign Countries
Texas Education Agency, Austin. Div. of Educational Assessment. – 1985
The Texas Educational Assessment of Minimum Skills (TEAMS) Exit Level Writing Test is based on eight behavioral objectives that fall under five skill areas. Satisfactory performance on this test is required for high school graduation in Texas. This document, intended for teachers and test developers, presents general testing instructions and…
Descriptors: Cognitive Objectives, Educational Assessment, Essay Tests, Graduation Requirements
Boss, Roberta S. – 1988
A study was conducted at the University of Maryland (College Park, Maryland) in the Fall 1985 15-week semester to test the effects of advanced knowledge of grading criteria on students' writing skills and attitudes in a Freshman Composition class. A holistic grading scale, which was distributed to students as a checklist for revising writing…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Comparative Analysis, Conventional Instruction, Evaluation Criteria
Davis, James E., Ed.; Davis, Hazel K., Ed. – Focus: Teaching English Language Arts, 1982
The 24 articles in this special journal resulted from the Licking County (Ohio) Writing Project. The articles provide information about the following: (1) how to motivate students and teachers, (2) prewriting activities, (3) lightening the teacher's grading load, (4) the uses of conferences, (5) sustained silent reading, (6) traditional techniques…
Descriptors: Inservice Teacher Education, Instructional Improvement, Prewriting, Student Motivation
Massachusetts State Dept. of Education, Boston. Bureau of Research and Assessment. – 1982
This supplement is intended to help schools get the maximum amount of useful information from test results; information that will be helpful in program monitoring, grouping, planning instructional activities, and reporting results to parents and community. Contents include an introduction to test interpretation and interpreting of test scores;…
Descriptors: Achievement Tests, Basic Skills, Elementary Secondary Education, Listening Comprehension Tests
Kaufer, David S.; Steinberg, Erwin R. – 1985
Many influential style guides endorse the stylistic prescription that writers, particularly technical writers, should revise noun compounds into phrasal or clausal paraphrases. While the prescription is well-intentioned, it fails to take into account that a reader's comprehension of compounds, whether long or short, is a complex process dependent…
Descriptors: Audience Analysis, English, Evaluation Criteria, Language Styles
