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Download full textPennsylvania Department of Education, 2010
This handbook describes the responsibilities of district and school assessment coordinators in the administration of the Pennsylvania System of School Assessment (PSSA). This updated guidebook contains the following sections: (1) General Assessment Guidelines for All Assessments; (2) Writing Specific Guidelines; (3) Reading and Mathematics…
Descriptors: Guidelines, Guides, Educational Assessment, Writing Tests
"Good" and "Poor" Writing and Writers: Studying Individual Performance as a Part of Test Validation.
Allison, Desmond; Cheung, Evelyn – 1990
A study was conducted to investigate issues of test validation by placing them in a context. The study examined the ways in which instances of "good" and "poor" writing have been identified in the marking of part of an English writing test that is given each year to incoming Arts Faculty students at the University of Hong Kong.…
Descriptors: Cohesion (Written Composition), English (Second Language), Higher Education, Measurement Objectives
Peer reviewedLembke, Erica; Deno, Stanley L.; Hall, Kim – Assessment for Effective Intervention, 2003
This study compared alternative measures of early writing performance with 15 second-grade students in a summer program for students at risk. Two- to three-minute samples were obtained of word copying, sentence copying, word dictation, and sentence dictation. Writing from word and sentence dictation correlated best with global judgments of…
Descriptors: At Risk Persons, Curriculum Based Assessment, Grade 2, Measures (Individuals)
Peer reviewedIsaacson, Stephen L. – Learning Disabilities Research and Practice, 1992
This review of the Test of Early Written Language concludes that the test succeeds in identifying students who are below their peers in writing and in measuring long-term gains in written language achievement; but its format makes it difficult to document specific strengths and weaknesses and its reliability; and validity have not been…
Descriptors: Early Childhood Education, Evaluation Methods, Student Evaluation, Test Reliability
Blinn, Kari; Timar, Allene – 1991
A study was conducted at Riverside Community College in California to evaluate by ethnic group the enrollment behavior and academic achievement of first-year students who completed assessment testing and were recommended for placement in a pre-college-level writing course. The study sample included the two cohorts of students who enrolled at the…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Academic Persistence, Community Colleges, Comparative Analysis
