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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
Tania Maria Cruz Cordero – ProQuest LLC, 2024
Writing motivation has been deemed a critical aspect of the writing process because motivation affects how students engage with the writing process, how much effort and time they exert in the tasks, and the quality of their written products (Graham, 2018). Writing motivation has been the focus of recent studies on how to improve the discouraging…
Descriptors: Writing Attitudes, Student Attitudes, Writing Processes, Learner Engagement
Donagriche, Vincent Phillip – ProQuest LLC, 2019
Many of today's students are lacking fundamental skills of literacy and writing that are needed to successfully meet academic requirements in order to graduate, leaving students inadequately prepared for the technological demands of the modern workforce, which relies on the frequent utilization of various forms of cloud-based productivity tools to…
Descriptors: Constructivism (Learning), Access to Computers, Middle School Students, Socioeconomic Status
Fox, Janice M. – ProQuest LLC, 2013
In an "ex post facto" causal-comparative research design, this study investigated the effectiveness of a formative writing assessment program, Write Score, on increasing student writing achievement. Tennessee Comprehensive Assessment Program (TCAP) reading language arts and writing scores from 2012 were utilized for this study. The…
Descriptors: Formative Evaluation, Writing Evaluation, Writing Achievement, Comparative Analysis
Garrido-Vargas, Martha – ProQuest LLC, 2012
There has been a rapid increase in the emergence of minority groups during the past few decades in the United States. Hispanics are the largest minority group that has people who speak English as a second language. The increasing proportion of English Language Learning (ELL) students has made it more difficult to maintain high learning standards.…
Descriptors: English Language Learners, Academic Achievement, Grade 7, Grade 8
Harris, Connie – ProQuest LLC, 2013
Despite the efforts of a number of national organizations focused on improving writing literacy, there has been little improvement in student writing skills over the past decade to keep pace with the growing demands of the workplace. Based on constructivist learning theory and the belief that students become better writers through continuous…
Descriptors: Middle School Students, Grade 8, Writing Instruction, Writing Evaluation
Kingston, Kent J. – ProQuest LLC, 2013
In the fall of 2008 Westside Community Schools - District 66, in Omaha, Nebraska implemented a one-to-one notebook computer take home model for all eighth-grade students. The purpose of this study was to determine the effect of a required yearlong one-to-one notebook computer program supported by high-speed Internet connectivity at school on (a)…
Descriptors: Laptop Computers, Internet, Middle School Students, Grade Point Average
Runnells, Mary Mau – ProQuest LLC, 2012
Adolescent literacy, or adolescents' ability to read, write, and communicate about the variety of texts they encounter in and out of school, has remained inordinately, and consistently, low for the past 20 years (NCES, 2010). Self-efficacy is a widely-used construct for measuring and predicting student achievement (Pajares, Johnson, & Usher,…
Descriptors: Literacy, Reading Skills, Self Efficacy, Disabilities
Holman, Lester Donnie – ProQuest LLC, 2011
In an ex post facto causal-comparative research design, this study investigated the effectiveness of Automated Writing Evaluation (AWE) programs on raising the student writing achievement. Tennessee Comprehensive Assessment Program (TCAP) writing achievement scores from the 2010 administration were utilized for this study. The independent variable…
Descriptors: Writing Ability, Writing Achievement, Writing Skills, Writing Evaluation