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Harming Not Helping: The Impact of a Canadian Standardized Writing Assessment on Curriculum and Pedagogy
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Slomp, David H. – Assessing Writing, 2008
Test-based accountability programs are designed to promote improved standards of teaching and learning within the systems of education that they are connected to. Brenan [Brenan, A. L. (2006). "Perspectives on the evolution and future of educational measurement." In: Robert (Ed.), "Educational measurement" (4th ed., pp. 1-16).…
Descriptors: Writing Evaluation, Writing Tests, Evaluation Criteria, Program Effectiveness
Learning to Write in Our Nation's Schools: Instruction and Achievement in 1988 at Grades 4, 8, and 12. Report No. 19-W-02.
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Applebee, Arthur N.; And Others – 1990
To evaluate the writing abilities of American students, the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) asked nationally representative samples of fourth, eighth, and twelfth graders--approximately 20,000 students in all--to perform a variety of informative, persuasive, and narrative writing tasks. In addition, students were asked about the…
Descriptors: Educational Assessment, Elementary Secondary Education, Grade 12, Grade 4
Improving Writing: What Principals Can Do
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Urquhart, Vicki – Principal Leadership, 2005
Only one out of five high school teachers believes that students are learning to write well according to research from Public Agenda. Test results confirm their opinion. In 1998, the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) administered a writing assessment to gauge fourth- and eighth-grade students' proficiency in writing narrative,…
Descriptors: Test Results, Writing Evaluation, Writing Tests, Principals