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Jung, Pyung-Gang; McMaster, Kristen L. – Assessment for Effective Intervention, 2018
We examined the classification accuracy of Curriculum-Based Measurement in writing (CBM-W) Picture Word prompts scored for words written (WW), words spelled correctly (WSC), and correct word sequences (CWS). First graders (n = 133) were administered CBM-W prompts and the Test of Written Language-Third Edition (TOWL-3; Hammill & Larsen, 1996).…
Descriptors: Curriculum Based Assessment, Grade 1, Elementary School Students, Writing Evaluation
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Troia, Gary A.; Olinghouse, Natalie G.; Zhang, Mingcai; Wilson, Joshua; Stewart, Kelly A.; Mo, Ya; Hawkins, Lisa – Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 2018
We examined the degree to which content of states' writing standards and assessments (using measures of content range, frequency, balance, and cognitive complexity) and their alignment were related to student writing achievement on the 2007 National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP), while controlling for student, school, and state…
Descriptors: State Standards, Academic Standards, Writing Instruction, Writing Evaluation
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Anada, Ririn Putra; Arsyad, Safnil; Dharmayana, I. Wayan – International Journal of Language Education, 2018
An argument in academic writing is an essential element; it is used to convince readers that the writer's opinion or claim can be acceptable. However, this may be problematic for university students or new writers especially when writing in a language other than their first language such as Indonesians who take an international English writing…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Language Tests, English (Second Language), Persuasive Discourse
Ananda, Ririn Putra; Arsyad, Safnil; Dharmayana, I Wayan – Online Submission, 2018
An argument in academic writing is an essential element; it is used to convince readers that the writer's opinion or claim can be acceptable. However, this may be problematic for university students or new writers especially when writing in a language other than their first language such as Indonesians who take an international English writing…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Language Tests, English (Second Language), Persuasive Discourse
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Wind, Stefanie A.; Engelhard, George, Jr. – Educational and Psychological Measurement, 2016
Mokken scale analysis is a probabilistic nonparametric approach that offers statistical and graphical tools for evaluating the quality of social science measurement without placing potentially inappropriate restrictions on the structure of a data set. In particular, Mokken scaling provides a useful method for evaluating important measurement…
Descriptors: Nonparametric Statistics, Statistical Analysis, Measurement, Psychometrics
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Terao, Takahiro; Ishii, Hidetoki – SAGE Open, 2020
This study aimed to compare selection patterns of distractors (incorrect options) according to test taker proficiency regarding Japanese students' summarization skills of an English paragraph. Participants included 414 undergraduate students, and the test comprised three summarization process types--deletion, generalization, and integration.…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, English (Second Language), Second Language Instruction, Second Language Learning
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Susanti, Atika; Mustadi, Ali; Asnimar; Susiloningsih, Esti – Elementary School Forum (Mimbar Sekolah Dasar), 2019
Writing is one of the subjects taught at school. Through poetry writing, students' imaginative writing skills can be improved. The purpose of this research is to describe the improvement in poetry writing skills and students' activity using Prezi. This research employed a classroom action research method conducted in three cycles. Each cycle…
Descriptors: Writing Skills, Writing Improvement, Poetry, Educational Media
Cuyuch, Leslie Gale Reamsma – ProQuest LLC, 2022
English learners (ELs) in Florida face numerous challenges including low test scores, and high dropout rates, and are typically several years behind their peers when compared to other states. The purpose of this quantitative quasi-experimental ex-post-facto study was to compare the differences between ACCESS 2.0 scores of high school ELs in…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, English Language Learners, Barriers, Dropout Rate
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Jahangard, Ali – MEXTESOL Journal, 2022
One of the most interesting studies on the role of L1 and contrastive analysis in vocabulary teaching is by Laufer and Girsai (2008). However, due to some methodological issues, their research findings are open to criticism and controversy. The current study aimed to replicate the research with a more rigorous design to re-investigate the…
Descriptors: Grammar, Vocabulary Development, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
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Xie, Qin; Lei, Yuqi – Language Assessment Quarterly, 2022
This research conducted diagnostic assessment of problems in first-year undergraduates' English academic papers and tracked potential sources of the problems to the writing process and strategy use. Data collected include 339 term papers and interviews with 17 students. The samples were manually error tagged and marked against a detailed…
Descriptors: Diagnostic Tests, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Metacognition
Yue Huang – ProQuest LLC, 2023
Automated writing evaluation (AWE) is a cutting-edge technology-based intervention designed to help teachers meet their challenges in writing classrooms and improve students' writing proficiency. The fast development of AWE systems, along with the encouragement of technology use in the U.S. K-12 education system by the Common Core State Standards…
Descriptors: Computer Assisted Testing, Writing Tests, Automation, Writing Evaluation
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Schnur, Erin; Rubio, Fernando – Language Learning & Technology, 2021
Using the 2.4-million-word written Spanish subsection of the Corpus of Utah Dual Language Immersion, collected from a large-scale standardized writing assessment of K-12 Spanish second language (L2) students, this study focuses on lexical complexity as operationalized by three measures: lexical diversity, lexical density, and lexical…
Descriptors: Spanish, Immersion Programs, Computational Linguistics, Bilingual Education Programs
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Nazerian, Samaneh; Abbasian, Gholam-Reza; Mohseni, Ahmad – Cogent Education, 2021
Despite growing interest in the studies on Zone of Proximal Development (ZPD), its operation in the forms of individualized and group-wide has been controversial. To cast some empirical light on the issue, this study was designed to study the applicability of the two scenarios of ZPD-based instructions to the writing accuracy of two levels of…
Descriptors: Sociocultural Patterns, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, English (Second Language)
Monica Hilrey Burke – ProQuest LLC, 2021
During the academic year in the state of Georgia, EL students in public schools take the Georgia Milestones End-of-Grade and the ACCESS 2.0 assessments, which are in line with the state-mandated subject area standards in mathematics, science, language arts, and social studies, as well as English language proficiency standards (Georgia Department…
Descriptors: English Language Learners, Scores, Achievement Tests, Literacy
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Lovejoy, Valerie; Thomas, Damon; Mow, Laura; Edgar, Christine; Alford, Sophie; Prain, Vaughan – English in Australia, 2020
Despite an intense focus on improving Australian students' writing performance in recent years, and comprehensive instructional advice to English teachers, researchers have noted a lack of gains in standardised writing tests and negative effects on student engagement and learning. In this paper we claim that these outcomes are partly attributable…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Writing Achievement, Writing Instruction, English Instruction
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