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Eagan, Timothy – NECTFL Review, 2023
This article emphasizes the importance of success criteria as a tool to support students' academic success. Research has consistently shown that strong teacher-student relationships lead to improved academic outcomes, but building strong relationships involves defining their impact on student learning outcomes. Success criteria support personal…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Outcomes of Education, Culturally Relevant Education, Teacher Student Relationship
Council of the Great City Schools, 2020
Despite the COVID-19-related school closures, school districts are handling enrollment of newly arriving students or students who will be starting Kindergarten in school year 2020-21. The school closure and health-related requirements of social distancing impede staff from conducting in-person screening for English proficiency as required by state…
Descriptors: Language Proficiency, Student Evaluation, School Closing, Questionnaires
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Herrington, Anne J.; Stassen, Martha L. A. – Across the Disciplines, 2016
In fall 2010, the University of Massachusetts Amherst instituted a new upper-division General Education requirement, the Integrative Experience (IE), designed to help students integrate the various components of their undergraduate experience and reflect upon their learning and development as a result of those experiences, both key dimensions of…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Writing Across the Curriculum, General Education, Required Courses
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T.H.E. Journal, 2013
The West Virginia Department of Education's auto grading initiative dates back to 2004--a time when school districts were making their first forays into automation. The Charleston based WVDE had instituted a statewide writing assessment in 1984 for students in fourth, seventh, and 10th grades and was looking to expand that program without having…
Descriptors: Automation, Grading, Scoring, Computer Uses in Education
Common Core State Standards Initiative, 2010
This document presents writing samples that have been annotated to illustrate the criteria required to meet the Common Core State Standards for particular types of writing--argument, informative/explanatory text, and narrative--in a given grade. Each of the samples exhibits at least the level of quality required to meet the Writing standards for…
Descriptors: Writing Instruction, Writing Evaluation, Writing Assignments, Evaluation Methods
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Andersen, Richard – Kappa Delta Pi Record, 2003
From the early 1900s to the present, there have always been inconsistencies in how teachers evaluate the writing quality of their students' essays. Their critiques vary as much as their personalities. To establish common standards in writing for all courses in which essays are assigned and, at the same time, not infringe on the integrity of…
Descriptors: Human Services, Writing Across the Curriculum, Integrity, Essays