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Crossley, Scott A.; Weston, Jennifer L.; McLain Sullivan, Susan T.; McNamara, Danielle S. – Written Communication, 2011
In this study, a corpus of essays stratified by level (9th grade, 11th grade, and college freshman) are analyzed computationally to discriminate differences between the linguistic features produced in essays by adolescents and young adults. The automated tool Coh-Metrix is used to examine to what degree essays written at various grade levels can…
Descriptors: Writing (Composition), Sentence Structure, Nouns, Linguistics
Gross, Paul R. – Thomas B. Fordham Foundation & Institute, 2005
The mission of this review is to appraise the new draft NAEP science framework and to determine whether it is up to snuff. This is an evaluation of the September 30, 2005, draft document, Science Framework for the 2009 National Assessment of Educational Progress (Framework), developed for the National Assessment Governing Board. The criteria is…
Descriptors: Governing Boards, National Competency Tests, Evaluation Criteria, Science Instruction