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Jacklyn C. Davenport – ProQuest LLC, 2022
Many students across the US, specifically in Texas, struggle with writing on grade level. On the last National Assessment of Educational Progress (2012), 70% of eighth- and twelfth-grade students were not writing on grade level. On the 2021 State of Texas Assessment of Academic Readiness (STAAR) Writing, only 26% of the fourth grade students met…
Descriptors: Writing Skills, Grade 8, Grade 12, Grade 4
Tabitha Dudley – ProQuest LLC, 2022
The purpose of the study was to discover the pathways and roadblocks that lead to ELLs' writing abilities in fourth grade after transitioning from a bilingual to a general education classroom. This research compared students' data points in Dual Language classes on state assessments and the writing strategies implemented by Dual Language teachers.…
Descriptors: Bilingual Education, General Education, Grade 4, Writing Ability
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Warren, James E.; Otto, Karen – English in Texas, 2018
Composition researchers have become increasingly concerned with the issue of knowledge transfer: the use of knowledge and skills learned in one setting to complete tasks in a different setting. In terms of writing-related knowledge transfer, research suggests that rigid rules and formulas for writing do not transfer as successfully as flexible…
Descriptors: Transfer of Training, Writing Instruction, Rhetoric, Standardized Tests