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Direct linkKeane, Lainey; Griffin, Claire P. – Irish Educational Studies, 2018
Self-assessment practices have been advocated in recent Irish educational documents due to their potential to enhance school children's learning and self-regulatory skills. However, the literature has highlighted how some children struggle to make accurate self-assessments of their academic work, which diminishes such positive effects (Keane and…
Descriptors: Self Evaluation (Individuals), Prior Learning, Age Differences, Evaluation Problems
Download full textBrown, Marjorie – Online Submission, 2011
Writing at the high school level requires higher cognitive and literacy skills. Educators must decide the strategies best suited for the varying skills of each process. Compounding this issue is the need to instruct students with learning disabilities. Writing for students with learning disabilities is a struggle at minimum; teachers have to find…
Descriptors: Learning Disabilities, Instructional Materials, Process Approach (Writing), Special Education
Jeffery, Jill V. – ProQuest LLC, 2010
"Voice" is widely considered to be a feature of effective writing. It's no surprise, then, that voice criteria frequently appear on rubrics used to score student essays in large-scale writing assessments. However, composition theorists hold vastly different views regarding voice and how it should be applied in the evaluation of student writing, if…
Descriptors: Expository Writing, Evaluators, Writing Evaluation, Writing Tests
Fidalgo, Raquel; Torrance, Mark; Garcia, Jesus-Nicasio – Contemporary Educational Psychology, 2008
We compared 56 eighth-grade students who, 28 months previously, had received instruction in strategies for planning and revising their writing, with 21 students of similar academic ability from the same school who had not experienced the intervention. Both groups wrote an expository essay whilst logging their writing activities and completed…
Descriptors: Text Structure, Intervention, Self Efficacy, Writing Instruction
Albertson, Bonnie – Research in the Teaching of English, 2007
The primary purpose of this study was to investigate the efficacy of formulaic writing such as the five-paragraph theme (FPT) or essay for the purpose of earning high scores on high-stakes writing assessments. This qualitative descriptive study analyzed more than 1000 essays from Delaware Grade 8 and 10 writers, written for a statewide…
Descriptors: Grade 8, Grade 10, Testing Programs, Essays
Kobrin, Jennifer L.; Deng, Hui; Shaw, Emily J. – Journal of Applied Testing Technology, 2007
This study was designed to address two frequent criticisms of the SAT essay--that essay length is the best predictor of scores, and that there is an advantage in using more "sophisticated" examples as opposed to personal experience. The study was based on 2,820 essays from the first three administrations of the new SAT. Each essay was…
Descriptors: Testing Programs, Computer Assisted Testing, Construct Validity, Writing Skills
