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Tunagür, Muhammed – Shanlax International Journal of Education, 2021
This research, aims to investigate whether peer assessment application has an effect on writing anxiety and writing motivation of 6th grade students. It is one of the quantitative research designs. The study group of the research consists of 6th grade students attending a secondary school in Turkey. There are 35 students in the study, 17 are in…
Descriptors: Peer Evaluation, Writing Apprehension, Student Motivation, Secondary School Students
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Polatcan, Faruk; Sahin, Nurullah – Journal of Language and Linguistic Studies, 2019
The aim of this study was to determine the effect of secondary school students' writing tendency, writing self-efficacy and writing attitude variables and how these variables predict each other through structural equation modeling. For this purpose, the relational screening model was used and the study was carried out in academic year 2018-2019 on…
Descriptors: Instructional Effectiveness, Secondary School Students, Self Efficacy, Writing Attitudes
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Wright, Katherine Landau; Hodges, Tracey S.; Zimmer, Wendi K.; McTigue, Erin M. – Reading & Writing Quarterly, 2019
Although many agree that writing can make a unique contribution to learning, harnessing that contribution is difficult, particularly in the middle grades. The purpose of this study was to measure the efficacy of a feasible writing-to-learn intervention in Grade 6-11 science classes. We focused on middle school students because this group has been…
Descriptors: Science Instruction, Middle School Students, Scientific Literacy, Writing Instruction
Wolf, Jude – ProQuest LLC, 2013
Writing is a complex process that presents challenges for middle school teachers and their students with and without disabilities. A particular area of difficulty is the application of content-area vocabulary in the explanatory writing of sixth-grade students. This two-group quasi-experimental study investigated the effectiveness of an elaborative…
Descriptors: Middle School Students, Grade 6, Charter Schools, Public Schools
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McDermott, Mark A.; Hand, Brian – Journal of Research in Science Teaching, 2010
This study aims to add to the growing research related to the implementation of non-traditional writing tasks in classrooms to encourage science literacy. A secondary reanalysis methodology was employed to review student interviews collected as a part of several individual studies during a ten year research program. This method established an…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Scientific Literacy, Transcripts (Written Records), Coding