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Kourosh Mohammadi; Aliakbar Jafarpour; Javad Alipour; Mahmood Hashemian – Reading & Writing Quarterly, 2024
Despite claims concerning the positive impact of prewriting planning, particularly of a collaborative type, research has not produced consistent results. The present study was conducted to investigate the effect of different types of prewriting planning on students' writing self-efficacy and their cognitive, behavioral, and emotional engagement.…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, English (Second Language), Learner Engagement, Second Language Learning
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Schrodt, Katie; FitzPatrick, Erin; Brown, Megan; Hover, Ashlee – Reading & Writing Quarterly, 2023
Motivation impacts student academic performance. A performance task to directly assess writing motivation in young children is needed. The purpose of this investigation was to evaluate the validity of the Writing Challenge Task (WCT), a task-oriented assessment created to measure writing motivation with 106 kindergarten students in the rural…
Descriptors: Writing Assignments, Evaluation Methods, Student Motivation, Kindergarten
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Tavsanli, Ömer Faruk; Bilgin, Asude; Yildirim, Kasim; Rasinski, Timothy; Tschantz, Barbara – Reading & Writing Quarterly, 2021
The aim of this study is to determine the effects of a Process-Based Writing Modular Instructional Program (PBWMIP), supported with graphic organizers and formative assessment, on second-grade primary school students' writing compositions and attitudes toward writing. This quasi-experimental research design study was conducted with 40 second…
Descriptors: Program Effectiveness, Writing Achievement, Writing Attitudes, Expository Writing
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Wood, Carla; Schatschneider, Christopher – Reading & Writing Quarterly, 2022
Purpose: The primary aims of this study were to: (1) to describe average change in the writing quality of fifth grade students from the fall and spring of the school year; (2) examine relations between linguistic features and writing quality rating; and (3) test for differential growth between groups of students who differ in linguistic and…
Descriptors: Grade 5, Elementary School Students, Writing Skills, Student Diversity
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Carla Wood; Christopher Schatschneider – Reading & Writing Quarterly, 2021
The aims of the current project were to: (a) describe lexical diversity, morphologically complex word use (MCW), and writing quality ratings of 5th-grade students with diverse language backgrounds and (b) to examine the relationship between analytical components and writing quality ratings with performance on measures of language and literacy…
Descriptors: Writing Tests, Writing Achievement, Language Skills, Grade 5