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Direct linkSchrodt, Katie; FitzPatrick, Erin; Brown, Megan; Hover, Ashlee – Reading & Writing Quarterly, 2023
Motivation impacts student academic performance. A performance task to directly assess writing motivation in young children is needed. The purpose of this investigation was to evaluate the validity of the Writing Challenge Task (WCT), a task-oriented assessment created to measure writing motivation with 106 kindergarten students in the rural…
Descriptors: Writing Assignments, Evaluation Methods, Student Motivation, Kindergarten
Yumei Zou; Sathiamoorthy Kannan; Gurnam Kaur Sidhu – SAGE Open, 2024
Task design has been viewed to be essential in the context of language assessment. This study investigated whether increasing task complexity affects learners' writing performance. It employs three writing tasks with different levels of complexity based on Robinson's Componential Framework. A cohort of 278 participants was selected using a simple…
Descriptors: Difficulty Level, College Students, Foreign Countries, Writing Achievement
Download full textHouston Independent School District, 2022
The Improving Basic Programs effort in Title I, Part A (Title I) of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 (ESEA), as amended by the Every Student Succeeds Act of 2015 (ESSA), is designed to ensure that all children have a fair, equal, and significant opportunity to obtain a high-quality education and achieve, at a minimum, proficiency…
Descriptors: Federal Legislation, Elementary Secondary Education, Educational Legislation, Academic Achievement
Kendra J. Preston – ProQuest LLC, 2021
This was a qualitative case study that focused on the discrepancy of literacy development at the middle school level of average students. The longitudinal case study expanded the course of one and a half academic years; beginning in August 2019 and concluding in January 2021. The study focused on two male participants who exhibited incongruent…
Descriptors: Middle School Students, Longitudinal Studies, Reading Writing Relationship, Writing (Composition)
Houston Independent School District, 2021
The Houston Independent School District offers two primary bilingual programs (transitional and dual language) for Spanish-speaking English learners (ELs). The relative amount of instruction in each language depends on both program and grade level. Students in the transitional bilingual program have the option of entering a "pre-exit…
Descriptors: School Districts, Bilingual Education, English Language Learners, Elementary School Students
Houston Independent School District, 2021
The Houston Independent School District (HISD) offers two English as a second language (ESL) programs for students whose native language is not English and who need to develop and enhance their English language skills (English Learners, or ELs). The Content-Based ESL model (CB-ESL) consists of an intensive program of English instruction in all…
Descriptors: Second Language Instruction, Second Language Learning, English Language Learners, School Districts
