Not a Balanced Assessment: A Response to Freyd and Lytle.

Nelms, Virginia

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Publication Date: 1990

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Not a Balanced Assessment: A Response to Freyd and Lytle.

Nelms, Virginia

Educational Leadership, v47 n6 p89-91 Mar 1990

Critiques Freyd and Lytle's evaluation of the IBM Writing to Read program in the same "Educational Leadership" issue. Claims that WTR helps kindergarten and first grade students produce stories they otherwise would not have written and that research results were misinterpreted. IBM should be allowed to compete in the language education market. Includes eight references. (MLH)

Descriptors: Computer Assisted Instruction, Cost Effectiveness, Elementary Education, Phonics, Reading Programs, Writing Instruction

Publication Type: Journal Articles; Opinion Papers; Reports - Descriptive

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Language: English

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