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Download full textFisch, Audrey – Composition Forum, 2017
This profile presents New Jersey City University's Writing Assessment Program from its creation in 2002 to its elimination in 2017. The program arose as an attempt to raise the writing skills of the diverse, first generation teacher certification candidates in the College of Education. Despite political missteps, the program gained greater…
Descriptors: Writing Tests, College Programs, Program Design, Program Development
Direct linkAmato, Janelle M.; Watkins, Marley W. – Journal of Special Education, 2011
Curriculum-based measurement (CBM) is an alternative to traditional assessment techniques. Technical work has begun to identify CBM writing indices that are psychometrically sound for monitoring older students' writing proficiency. This study examined the predictive validity of CBM writing indices in a sample of 447 eighth-grade students.…
Descriptors: Grade 8, Writing Evaluation, Curriculum Based Assessment, Punctuation
Finnegan, Robert J. – ProQuest LLC, 2010
Despite recent policy initiatives to ensure high school accountability through state-mandated testing, New Jersey high school graduates may not be prepared for the challenges of college-level writing because the state's high school assessment is not aligned with college-level expectations (Brown & Conley, 2007; Conley, 2003). An ever-growing…
Descriptors: Educational Policy, High Schools, Writing Tests, Academic Achievement
