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Ray, Amber B.; Graham, Steve – Learning Disability Quarterly, 2021
High school students with high-incidence disabilities and struggling writers face considerable challenges when taking writing assessments designed for college entrance. This study examined the effectiveness of a writing intervention for improving students' performance on a college entrance exam, the writing assessment for the ACT. Students were…
Descriptors: High School Students, Students with Disabilities, Writing Difficulties, Writing Evaluation
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Rauf, Abdul; Saeed, Muhammad – Journal of Education and Educational Development, 2021
The present study was conducted to find out the effect of reconstruction activities on grade XI students' English writing skills which included mechanical accuracy I (punctuations) and mechanical accuracy II (spellings). The study was carried out employing a pre-test post-test experimental control group design. A government degree college for boys…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Punctuation, Intervention, Spelling
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Barrs, Myra – English in Education, 2019
This article is a critique of current approaches to the teaching and assessment of writing in schools in the UK. Successive government initiatives, most particularly the latest (impoverished) version of the English curriculum, are seen as having led to a situation in which pupils are taught in a way that does not improve the quality of their…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Writing Instruction, Writing Evaluation, National Curriculum
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Roessingh, Hetty; Nordstokke, David; Colp, Mitchell – Reading & Writing Quarterly, 2019
Grade 4 represents a critical juncture in the literacy development of young students. This article explores the role of handwriting in unlocking the higher order psycholinguistic and metacognitive resources needed to compose quality text. In particular, we investigate the threshold of control over handwriting needed to unlock vocabulary that…
Descriptors: Elementary School Students, Grade 4, Literacy Education, Handwriting
Alrefaee, Sara; Mudkanna, Anita; Almansoob, Najeeb; Alrefaee, Yasser – Online Submission, 2019
This study attempts to investigate the relationship between students' weakness in listening skill and its effect on their performance in the TOEFL IBT integrated task of writing. It also investigates the balance among the students' four language skills. The participants of the study are senior students of Rada'a Education College of Albaydaa…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Second Language Learning, English (Second Language), Listening Skills
Radunzel, Justine – ACT, Inc., 2019
The optional ACT® writing test is designed to measure students' writing skills -- specifically, those skills emphasized and acquired in high school English classes and important for success in entry-level college composition courses. The test was first introduced in 2005, and in fall 2015, a number of enhancements to the former version were…
Descriptors: College Entrance Examinations, Writing Tests, Scores, College Freshmen
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Koutsoftas, Anthony D. – Elementary School Journal, 2018
This study examined developmental differences in written expression of intermediate-grade children across planning, writing, and revising products. This work is the first step in a programmatic line of research examining the utility of the assessment procedures toward formative writing assessment protocols. Eighty children in fourth and sixth…
Descriptors: Writing Processes, Grade 4, Grade 6, Age Differences
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Donica, Denise K.; Massengill, Meghan; Gooden, Mary Jessup – Journal of Occupational Therapy, Schools & Early Intervention, 2018
Literature has indicated conflicting results regarding the relationship between grasp patterns and legible handwriting. Historically, the dynamic tripod grasp was viewed as the gold standard, but more recent literature indicates that grasp may not have as much of an effect on handwriting legibility as once thought. The purpose of this study is to…
Descriptors: Handwriting, Psychomotor Skills, Elementary School Students, Grade 1
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Avalos, Mary A.; Perez, Xuchilt; Thorrington, Vanessa – Reading & Writing Quarterly, 2020
There is limited research of observed writing instruction in inclusive, secondary diverse urban contexts. This study contributes to the field by investigating four urban secondary English teachers' perceptions of ideal writing instruction as compared with their actual instruction, which is primarily driven by high-stakes accountability measures.…
Descriptors: Writing Instruction, Writing Teachers, Secondary School Teachers, Teacher Attitudes
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Wright, Katherine Landau; Hodges, Tracey S.; Dismuke, Sherry; Boedeker, Peter – Literacy Research and Instruction, 2020
In many states, writing is tested only in selected grades causing writing instruction often to be over-emphasized some years and neglected in others. The present study examines how students' motivation for writing differs during the middle school years. We administered the "Self-Beliefs, Writing Beliefs, and Attitude Survey" (SWAS) to a…
Descriptors: Middle School Students, Student Motivation, Attitude Change, Instructional Program Divisions
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Susan Dickerson Mayes; Daniel A. Waschbusch; Susan L. Calhoun; Richard E. Mattison – Journal of Developmental and Physical Disabilities, 2020
The prevalence of academic underachievement or learning disabilities in children with autism or ADHD (two groups at increased risk for such problems) has been extensively researched, but little is known about overachievement in these groups. The frequency of overachievement across academic domains compared to nondiscrepant achievement and…
Descriptors: Underachievement, Overachievement, Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder, Reading Comprehension
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Spina, Nerida – FORUM: for promoting 3-19 comprehensive education, 2017
This article is an extract from a longer research article originally published in the journal "English in Education." It describes a parallel situation in Australia where high-stakes assessment led to stereotyped writing, endless test practice and widespread student disengagement.
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Student Evaluation, High Stakes Tests, Stereotypes
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Zare, Mohammad; Bagheri, Mohammad Sadegh; Sadighi, Firooz; Rassaei, Ehsan – Cogent Education, 2021
The current study focused mainly on the role of the linguistic complexity of IELTS writing Task 2. In other words, it investigated the differential effects of two interrelated linguistic complexities of writing Task 2 on the three levels of discourse representation and what IELTS candidates perceived through analyzing IELTS writing topics both at…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, English (Second Language), Language Tests, Writing Tests
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Anne Ruggles Gere; Anne Curzan; J. W. Hammond; Sarah Hughes; Ruth Li; Andrew Moos; Kendon Smith; Kathryn Van Zanen; Kelly L. Wheeler; Crystal J. Zanders – College Composition and Communication, 2021
Critical language awareness offers one approach to communal "justicing," an iterative and collective process that can address inequities in the disciplinary infrastructure of Writing Studies. We demonstrate justicing in the field's pasts, policies, and publications; offer a model of communal revision; and invite readers to become agents…
Descriptors: Metalinguistics, Writing Instruction, Writing (Composition), Justice
Sterett H. Mercer; Joanna E. Cannon – Grantee Submission, 2022
We evaluated the validity of an automated approach to learning progress assessment (aLPA) for English written expression. Participants (n = 105) were students in Grades 2-12 who had parent-identified learning difficulties and received academic tutoring through a community-based organization. Participants completed narrative writing samples in the…
Descriptors: Elementary School Students, Secondary School Students, Learning Problems, Learning Disabilities
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