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Price, Donna; Smith, Jeffrey K.; Berg, David A. G. – Assessment Matters, 2017
This research compares the relative effectiveness and efficiency of personalised feedback versus annotated exemplars as two approaches to providing high school students with formative feedback in the development of their writing skills. The study was a randomised experiment conducted "in situ" in two English classes in one high school in…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Feedback (Response), Writing Evaluation, Formative Evaluation
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Li, Jinrui; Barnard, Roger – Assessing Writing, 2011
Teachers' feedback on students' written work is an important aspect of pedagogy. However, theoretical views differ on what constitutes "good" feedback, both among applied linguists and academics in other disciplines. In-depth research needs to be carried out into the contextual difficulties of evaluating and assessing academic…
Descriptors: Feedback (Response), Assignments, Research Needs, Writing Evaluation
Philips, David, Ed. – 1992
This collection presents 15 articles on writing, three of them new and 12 of them representing the best of the 500 articles published since 1974 in "SET: Research Information for Teachers," a twice-yearly publication by the New Zealand and Australian Councils for Educational Research aimed at teachers, students, board members, and…
Descriptors: Class Activities, Elementary Secondary Education, Foreign Countries, Grammar
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Jerram, Helen; And Others – Educational Psychology: An International Journal of Experimental Educational Psychology, 1988
Reports on a study which viewed writing instruction as an interactive social process between the teacher and students. Written responses to student writing assignments assessed content rather than accuracy of spelling or grammar. States that written feedback encouraged greater quantity and quality of writing with spelling accuracy being maintained…
Descriptors: Classroom Research, Elementary Education, Foreign Countries, Grade 5
O'Rourke, Anne; Philips, David – 1989
A study (part of the New Zealand Writing Project) investigated how teachers respond effectively to their students' writing. Several related issues were investigated, including whether "good" teachers of writing at various levels differ in approach and techniques used, and which practices bring about improvement at different ages.…
Descriptors: Classroom Environment, Classroom Research, Elementary Secondary Education, Foreign Countries
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Limbrick, Libby; Knight, Nicky – English Teaching: Practice and Critique, 2005
A professional development initiative in writing provided a context in which teachers could be researchers their own knowledge about writing, writing assessment and writing instruction. Through close attention to student writing samples, and debate in ascertaining writing levels using the English Exemplars, teachers articulated growing confidence…
Descriptors: Writing Evaluation, Writing Tests, Writing Processes, Teacher Researchers