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Evans, Peter J. A. – 1992
A study identified stages of student writing maturation across several grades and developed classroom resources to enhance the maturation of students. A total of 3,600 essays written by students in grades 4 and 6-12 attending urban and rural schools in eastern Ontario, Canada, were holistically scored. The original limited and quite specific…
Descriptors: Developmental Stages, Expository Writing, Fantasy, Foreign Countries
Moberg, Virgil B. – 1991
Many universities rely on multiple choice or true/false tests to admit students to mass communication programs. The high stakes that prospective majors face suggest that there is an urgent need for departments to rethink their assumptions about entrance testing, as a narrow conception of scholastic ability can undermine any attempt to "weed…
Descriptors: Expository Writing, Higher Education, Journalism Education, Majors (Students)
Alaska State Dept. of Education, Juneau. – 1999
The writing performance standard descriptors in this paper support the sections of the English/Language Arts Content Standards adopted by the Alaska State Board of Education. It begins with listing competencies associated with speaking and writing well for a variety of purposes and audiences; and thinking logically and reflectively. It then…
Descriptors: Academic Standards, Audience Awareness, Elementary Secondary Education, Language Arts

Washington, Gerald R. – JAC: A Journal of Composition Theory, 1996
Explores the relationship between writing ability, cognitive development, and orality among students of minority cultures, particularly the African American culture. Suggests that students from cultures with strong oral traditions do not lag behind other students but must nevertheless succeed in making the transition to written standard discourse.…
Descriptors: Black Culture, Blacks, Cognitive Development, Cognitive Processes

Isaacson, Stephen L. – Volta Review, 1996
Describes how simple curriculum-based assessments can be used to evaluate the writing process, the product factors (fluency, content, conventions, syntax and vocabulary), and the writing purpose of students who are deaf or hard of hearing. A process checklist is included that can be used to assess strategies students do or do not use when writing.…
Descriptors: Check Lists, Curriculum Based Assessment, Deafness, Elementary Secondary Education

Chiste, Katherine Beaty; O'Shea, Judith – English Quarterly, 1990
Examines the characteristics of prewriting activities of unsuccessful writers who took the Alberta Universities' Writing Competence Test. Finds that the students' limited and ineffective use of prewriting strategies interferes with their ability to generate and develop ideas in writing a timed essay. (KEH)
Descriptors: Essay Tests, Foreign Countries, Higher Education, Prewriting

Peyton, Joy Kreeft; And Others – Research in the Teaching of English, 1990
Compares the written production of 12 sixth grade English-as-a-second-language (ESL) students on 3 teacher-assigned tasks with their writing to the teacher in dialogue journals. Finds that the quantity and maturity of the dialogue journal writing was at least equivalent to the assigned writing on all measures. (RS)
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Dialog Journals, Elementary Education, English (Second Language)

Cameron, Catherine Ann; And Others – Applied Psycholinguistics, 1995
Examined the relationship between global writing quality and lower level analytic measures of writing, with a focus on cohesive indices, among 50 English-speaking Canadian fourth-graders. Results showed that both cohesive indices and lower level writing measures each accounted for a significant amount of the variance in holistic scores. (Contains…
Descriptors: Cohesion (Written Composition), Elementary Education, Elementary School Students, Foreign Countries

Pajares, Frank – Journal of Invitational Theory and Practice, 1994
Researchers agree that academic self-efficacy beliefs are strongly predictive of academic performance. This study investigates four students' perceptions of the evolution of their efficacy beliefs about writing and of the relationship between these beliefs and their writing competence. (JPS)
Descriptors: Confidence Testing, Expectation, Higher Education, Qualitative Research

McGreevy, Ann Loftus – Gifted Child Quarterly, 1995
The creative development of Maria, Elizabeth, Charlotte, Patrick Branwell, Emily Jane, and Anne Bronte in England during the early 1800s is analyzed, with attention to the role of the parents, collaborative siblings, and the natural environment in supporting their talent. The education of the Brontes and the "little books" they wrote as…
Descriptors: Creative Development, Creative Writing, Creativity, Educational Experience

Hannavy, Sybil – Reading, 1991
Describes the development and use of the Middle Infant Screening Test. Isolates factors which directly relate to children's progress in early reading and writing development. (RS)
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, British Infant Schools, Emergent Literacy, Primary Education

Marvin, Christine – Topics in Early Childhood Special Education, 1994
A survey of 168 preschool children's parents found that less than half of the children with single or multiple disabilities were read to daily or engaged in writing or drawing activities weekly. Relative priorities given to learning to read and write and expectations for reading and writing abilities were lower for children with multiple…
Descriptors: Disabilities, Early Childhood Education, Expectation, Family Environment

Cambra, Cristina – Volta Review, 1994
Ten Spanish adolescents with profound, prelingual hearing impairments received instruction in organizing their written stories. Instruction emphasized the importance of the narrative structure and the writing process and offered different activities about the narrative text. Some of the students improved the quality of their writing and their…
Descriptors: Deafness, Foreign Countries, Instructional Effectiveness, Reading Comprehension

Graham, Steve; And Others – Journal of Learning Disabilities, 1993
Interviews with 39 students with learning disabilities (LD, grades 4-8) and 29 normally achieving students revealed that, compared to controls, LD students had less mature conceptualizations of writing and less favorable attitudes toward writing but no differences in evaluations of their competence in either writing or the composing process.…
Descriptors: Intermediate Grades, Interviews, Junior High Schools, Learning Disabilities
Shaw, Patricia A. – Journal of the Wisconsin State Reading Association, 1991
Identifies quantitative research regarding whole language. Includes studies on preschool literacy, literature and basal reading, at-risk first grade children, whole language and traditional approaches to beginning reading, students' writing ability, whole language and older students, and implementation. Concludes that whole language may be more…
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Elementary Education, High Risk Students, Literature