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Olson, Carol Booth; Kim, James S.; Scarcella, Robin; Kramer, Jason; Pearson, Matthew; van Dyk, David A.; Collins, Penny; Land, Robert E. – American Educational Research Journal, 2012
In this study, 72 secondary English teachers from the Santa Ana Unified School District were randomly assigned to participate in the Pathway Project, a cognitive strategies approach to teaching interpretive reading and analytical writing, or to a control condition involving typical district training focusing on teaching content from the textbook.…
Descriptors: Writing Evaluation, Writing Tests, English (Second Language), Teaching Methods
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Olson, Carol Booth; Land, Robert; Anselmi, Thelma; AuBuchon, Charlie – Journal of Adolescent & Adult Literacy, 2010
Members of a site of the California Writing Project conducted the study in this article in partnership with a large, urban, low-SES school district where 93% of the students speak English as a second language and 69% are designated Limited English Proficient. Over an eight-year period, a relatively stable group of 55 secondary teachers engaged in…
Descriptors: Writing Evaluation, Learning Strategies, Essays, Limited English Speaking