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Peer reviewedPowers, Donald E.; Fowles, Mary E.; Welsh, Cynthia K. – Educational Assessment, 2001
Studied the relationship between writing skills tested on a relatively brief standardized assessment and some nontest indicators of student writing ability. Results for 2,057 college students show modest correlations between writing assessment essays and the various nontest indicators, with performance on the assessment exhibiting the strongest…
Descriptors: College Students, Correlation, Essays, Higher Education
Download full textPowers, Donald E. – ETS Research Report Series, 2005
This study examined how the practice of prepublishing prompts used on the writing section of the Graduate Record Examinations® (GRE®) General Test impacts test-preparation behavior, test performance, test validity, and examinee perceptions of the value of prompt prepublication. Researchers imposed modest experimental control over how participants…
Descriptors: Essays, Prompting, Cues, Writing Tests
