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Download full textAlberta Dept. of Education, Edmonton. – 1985
Intended for both teachers and students, this bulletin presents specific information about the design, parts, and scoring of the Grade 9 English Language Arts Achievement Test for the 1985-86 school year in Alberta, Canada. General information is presented regarding the (1) purpose and nature of the Achievement Testing Program (ATP), (2) students…
Descriptors: Achievement Tests, Educational Assessment, English Instruction, Foreign Countries
Alberta Dept. of Education, Edmonton. – 1987
Intended for students taking the Grade 12 Diploma Examination in English 30 in Alberta, Canada, this test contains (1) general instructions, (2) two minor assignments consisting of literature readings to which the student must write a personal response, and (3) a major assignment requiring students to show how the authors they studied in senior…
Descriptors: Achievement Tests, Educational Assessment, English Instruction, Foreign Countries
Alberta Dept. of Education, Edmonton. – 1986
Intended for students taking the Grade 12 Diploma Examination in English 30 in Alberta, Canada, this test contains (1) general instructions, (2) two minor assignments consisting of literature readings about which the student must write a personal response, and (3) a major assignment requiring students to show how the authors they studied in senior…
Descriptors: Achievement Tests, Educational Assessment, English Instruction, Foreign Countries
Alberta Dept. of Education, Edmonton. – 1986
Intended for students taking the Grade 12 Diploma Examinations in English 33 in Alberta, Canada, this test on writing contains general instructions and three sections: (1) a personal response to an aspect of literature, (2) functional writing requiring a written response within a given situation or context, and (3) a response to visual…
Descriptors: Achievement Tests, Educational Assessment, English Instruction, Foreign Countries
Alberta Dept. of Education, Edmonton. – 1985
Intended for students taking the Grade 12 Diploma Examination in English 30 in Alberta, Canada, this test contains (1) general instructions, (2) two minor assignments consisting of literature readings about which the student must write a personal response, and (3) a major assignment requiring students to show how the authors they studied in senior…
Descriptors: Achievement Tests, Educational Assessment, English Instruction, Foreign Countries
Alberta Dept. of Education, Edmonton. – 1985
Intended for students taking the Grade 12 Diploma Examination in English 30 in Alberta, Canada, this test contains (1) general instructions, (2) two minor assignments consisting of literature readings about which the student must write a personal response, and (3) a major assignment requiring students to show how the authors they studied in senior…
Descriptors: Achievement Tests, Educational Assessment, English Instruction, Foreign Countries
Alberta Dept. of Education, Edmonton. – 1985
Intended for students taking the Grade 12 Diploma Examination in English 33 in Alberta, Canada, this test on writing contains general instructions and three sections: (1) personal response to literature, which requires a response about an aspect of literature; (2) functional writing, which requires a written response within a given situation or…
Descriptors: Achievement Tests, Educational Assessment, English Instruction, Foreign Countries
Alberta Dept. of Education, Edmonton. – 1985
Intended for students taking the Grade 12 Diploma Examination in English 33 in Alberta, Canada, this test on writing contains general instructions and three sections: (1) a personal response to literature, which requires a response about some aspect of literature; (2) functional writing, which requires a written response within a given situation…
Descriptors: Achievement Tests, Educational Assessment, English Instruction, Foreign Countries
Alberta Dept. of Education, Edmonton. – 1989
Intended for students taking the English 33 Grade 12 Diploma Examinations in Alberta, Canada, this writing test booklet contains the composition component of the June 1989 tests. During 2.5 hours, students are required to perform the following writing tasks: (1) a personal response to an excerpt from Frank B. Gilbreth Jr. and Ernestine Gilbreth…
Descriptors: Achievement Tests, Educational Assessment, English Instruction, Foreign Countries
Alberta Dept. of Education, Edmonton. – 1986
Intended for students taking the Grade 9 English Language Arts Achievement Test in Alberta, Canada, this booklet contains the writing portion of the test, which requires the student to write an expository composition in response to four reading selections within the framework of a given situation. The booklet contains space both for planning and…
Descriptors: Achievement Tests, Educational Assessment, English Instruction, Expository Writing
Alberta Dept. of Education, Edmonton. – 1985
Intended for teachers and students, this document presents updated information about the design, the sections, and the scoring of the Grade 12 diploma examinations in English 30 and 33 for the 1985-86 school year in Alberta, Canada. It contains blueprints illustrating the relationship between the content and scoring of writing and reading test…
Descriptors: Achievement Tests, Educational Assessment, English Curriculum, English Instruction
Direct linkBeach, Richard W.; Appleman, Deborah; Hynds, Susan; Wilhelm, Jeffrey – Lawrence Erlbaum Associates (Bks), 2006
This text for pre-service and in-service English education courses presents current methods of teaching literature to middle and high school students. The methods are based on social constructivist/socio-cultural theories of literacy learning, and incorporate research on literary response conducted by the authors. "Teaching Literature to…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Literature, Reading Difficulties, Adolescent Literature
Rosen, Leonard J.; Behrens, Laurence – 1997
This third edition of a writing handbook that is built on the underlying themes of critical thinking and writing across the curriculum moves into the next generation with extensive coverage of electronic research and document design. It also contains many examples, exercises, and student papers in all categories. The handbook's chapters on…
Descriptors: Computer Uses in Education, Critical Reading, Critical Thinking, Electronic Libraries
El-Koumy, Abdel-Salam Abdel-Khalek – Online Submission, 2004
The aim of this book is to provide a compromise between past and present theories of language teaching and learning. The book is organized into six main parts. In the first part, the author highlights the strengths and weaknesses of both the skills-based approach and the whole-language approach. He then presents a theory that emphasizes the…
Descriptors: Language Skills, English Instruction, Language Teachers, English (Second Language)
Minnesota Teamsters Service Bureau, Minneapolis. – 1992
These three learning modules were developed for a workplace literacy project conducted cooperatively through the Minnesota Teamsters Service Bureau and Northeast Metro Technical College. They are part of the job-specific curriculum for commercial truck drivers developed during the project. The three modules, "Managing the…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Literacy, Basic Skills, Competence
