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Alberta Dept. of Education, Edmonton. Student Evaluation Branch. – 1995
This booklet illustrates and compares three important standards (levels of expectation) set for diploma examination writing in Social Studies 30: excellent, proficient, and satisfactory. Sample papers are used to illustrate the scoring criteria for group leaders and markers are presented, along with accompanying commentaries, or rationales, that…
Descriptors: Achievement Tests, Educational Assessment, Evaluation Methods, Foreign Countries
Powers, Donald E.; Potenza, Maria T. – 1996
The degree to which laptop and standard-size desktop computers are likely to produce comparable test results for the Graduate Record Examination (GRE) General Test was studied. Verbal, quantitative, and writing sections of a retired version of the GRE were used, since it was expected that performance on reading passages or mathematics items might…
Descriptors: College Students, Comparative Analysis, Computer Assisted Testing, Higher Education
Wolf, Shelby A.; McIver, Monette C. – 1998
In 1990, the state of Kentucky created a new school system through the Kentucky Educational Reform Act (KERA). While KERA mandates wide-ranging progressive reform, testing through the Kentucky Instructional Results Information System (KIRIS) makes sure teachers get the job done. Though all Kentucky teachers are involved in writing, those at the…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Educational Change, Grade 7, Junior High Schools
American Coll. Testing Program, Iowa City, IA. – 1992
In July 1992, American College Testing convened a 5-day meeting to set achievement levels in writing for grades 4, 8, and 12 to be recommended for use in reporting the 1992 National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP). Sixty-six panelists (teachers, non-teacher educators, and non-educators) attended the meeting and participated in the…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Grade 12, Grade 4, Grade 8
Rosenfeld, Michael; Courtney, Rosalea; Fowles, Mary – ETS Research Report Series, 2004
The authors conducted a large-scale survey to confirm that the writing skills being assessed in the GRE® General Test can be linked to writing tasks that were judged to be important by graduate faculty from a variety of subject areas and across a wide range of institutions at both the graduate and undergraduate levels. The results obtained in this…
Descriptors: Surveys, Writing Skills, College Entrance Examinations, Graduate Study
Bauer, Robert K.; Shlechter, Theodore M. – 1990
This study addressed the writing of college educated officers compared to their overall performance in an introductory Army course. The effects of an effective writing (communicative skills) program and a remedial enrichment program were also examined. A total of 137 U.S. Army lieutenants, who were students in the 15-week Military Police Officer…
Descriptors: College Graduates, Communication Skills, Evaluation Methods, Introductory Courses
California State Dept. of Education, Sacramento. – 1990
This handbook, intended for English language arts teachers, principals, curriculum and testing specialists, superintendents, and all educators interested in preparing students for the grade 8 California Assessment Program (CAP) writing assessment, provides the practitioner with information about the content of the test, the rationale underlying…
Descriptors: English Instruction, Grade 8, Junior High Schools, Language Arts
Jerome, Kathy; Gilman, David A. – 2003
This study compared ISTEP+ (Indiana Statewide Testing for Educational Progress) writing test scores before the implementation of a writing improvement program with ISTEP+ writing test scores. The study was conducted two years after such a program was implemented. Data from two groups was collected for this comparison. The first group used was the…
Descriptors: Academic Standards, Comparative Analysis, Early Intervention, Grade 3
Nebraska State Dept. of Education, Lincoln. – 2000
This update provides information about statewide writing assessment administration procedures in Nebraska and statewide assessment reporting, and contains a review of model assessments. The information is intended to assist local educators in planning and preparing for the Statewide Writing Assessment in February 2001 and the reporting of local…
Descriptors: Academic Standards, Criteria, Educational Planning, Elementary Secondary Education
Zhang, Liru – 2000
This study invesitigated possible reasons for the low performance on the text-based writing assessment of the Delaware Student Testing Program (DSTP) in 2000, especially for grades 3 and 5, and considered ways to improve classroom instruction. In the first part of the study, a panel of teachers reviewed the anchor papers from the assessment and…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Elementary Education, Elementary School Students, Low Achievement
Pennsylvania State Dept. of Education, Harrisburg. Bureau of Curriculum and Academic Services. – 2001
Beginning in 1999, all of the Pennsylvania System of School Assessment (PSSA) had to be aligned with the Pennsylvania Academic Standards. This handbook describes the PSSA writing assessment, which was designed to measure individual student performance and to influence instruction. The guide contains a chart of the Pennsylvania Academic Standards…
Descriptors: Achievement Tests, Elementary Secondary Education, Scoring, State Programs
Warger, Cynthia – 2002
This digest offers guidelines to help teachers prepare students with disabilities to succeed on state and district writing assessments. Teachers are urged to use the three principles of effective writing instruction: (1) use a basic framework of planning, writing, and revision; (2) instruct students in steps of the writing process and the features…
Descriptors: Academic Standards, Assistive Devices (for Disabled), Disabilities, Educational Assessment

Michigan State Dept. of Education, Lansing. Michigan Educational Assessment Program. – 1997
This packet assists Michigan teachers in improving writing instruction and student performance based on a better understanding of the holistic scoring guides used for the Michigan Educational Assessment Program (MEAP) grades 5, 8, and 11 High School Proficiency Test (HPST) writing tests. The packet includes actual scored student papers (released…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Grade 11, Grade 5, Grade 8
Florida State Dept. of Education, Tallahassee. Assessment, Testing, and Evaluation Section. – 1999
This report is designed for educators who are involved in teaching, developing, or evaluating curriculum in Florida's high schools. It describes the content and application of Florida's 10th grade writing test, and it offers suggestions that might be helpful in preparing students for the assessment. The 1990 Florida legislature mandated the…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Expository Writing, Grade 10, High School Students

Delaware State Dept. of Public Instruction, Dover. – 1999
The purpose of this writing sampler is to familiarize Delaware teachers and students with the major writing portion of the Delaware Student Testing Program. Included for each grade level (3, 5, 8, and 10) are the original prompt and an example of exemplary student work. Although the intent was to include student work for each of the rubric score…
Descriptors: Academic Standards, Elementary Secondary Education, State Standards, Student Evaluation