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Alberta Dept. of Education, Edmonton. – 1989
This English Language Arts Achievement Test was designed to evaluate the writing skills of third grade students. It includes instructions in which students are asked to write their own stories after reading a "story starter." The test instructs students to use their imaginations to finish the story and encourages them to do a prewriting…
Descriptors: Achievement Tests, Descriptive Writing, Foreign Countries, Grade 3
Conry, Robert; Jeroski, Sharon – 1980
About 9,000 students in grades 4, 8, and 12 participated in three writing excersises: (1) directed--short passage in response to a specific request; (2) global--extended narrative or exposition on a broad topic; and (3) proofreading and editing. The exercises reflected writing tasks required of the average adult as a citizen worker or creative…
Descriptors: Behavioral Objectives, Creative Writing, Descriptive Writing, Editing
