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Direct linkBarkaoui, Khaled – Canadian Modern Language Review, 2007
Essay tests are widely used to assess ESL/EFL learners' writing abilities for instructional, administrative, and research purposes. Relevant literature was searched to identify 70 empirical studies on ESL/EFL essay tests. The majority of these studies examined task, essay, and rater effects on essay rating and scores. Less attention has been given…
Descriptors: Essay Tests, Language Tests, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
Rousseau, Marilyn K.; And Others – American Journal on Mental Retardation, 1993
Students with (n=45) and without (n=60) mild mental retardation were compared on nine measures of syntactic complexity in writing at three grade levels (grades six, seven, and eight). Multivariate analysis of variance revealed significant differences for group but not for grade level or group by grade level. (Author/DB)
Descriptors: Age Differences, Intermediate Grades, Junior High Schools, Mild Mental Retardation
Peer reviewedHughes, Charles A.; Smith, Judith Osgood – Learning Disability Quarterly, 1990
Twenty-six articles including information about the cognitive and academic characteristics of learning-disabled college students are reviewed, focusing on levels of intellectual functioning, reading achievement, mathematics achievement, written expression, and foreign language performance. Research needs and implications for service provision are…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Cognitive Ability, College Students, Higher Education
Darch, Craig – Diagnostique, 1990
The Basic Achievement Skills Individual Screener is described as a quick screening tool for assessing basic skills of students functioning at grade 1-8 levels. The tool uses norm-referenced and criterion-referenced measures to assess achievement in reading, mathematics, spelling, and writing. This paper discusses test administration, scoring,…
Descriptors: Achievement Tests, Basic Skills, Disabilities, Elementary Secondary Education
Peer reviewedHidi, Suzanne; McLaren, John A. – European Journal of Psychology of Education, 1991
Describes a Canadian study attempting to relate the motivating power of interest to children's writing performance by supplementing background knowledge with topic relevant information. Reports that children with tutorial support on high interest subjects performed no better than others. Concludes that the motivational power of interesting topics…
Descriptors: Curiosity, Elementary School Students, Foreign Countries, Grade 6
Scott, Johanna, Ed. – 1993
The roles that language plays in science learning, the ways that science can be used to develop children's language, and how increased knowledge of language goes hand in hand with the development of scientific ideas provide the key focus for this book. The introduction provides an overview by focusing on what we mean by learning science, what we…
Descriptors: Child Language, Content Area Reading, Elementary Secondary Education, English (Second Language)
