This report provides information on how Hawaii's students performed on the 1987 and 1988 administrations of the Stanford Writing Assessment (which was adopted as part of Hawaii's Statewide Testing Program). Included in the report are a state summary of the performance of students in grades 3, 6, 8, and 10 and an analysis of the assessment results for each grade. The report serves as a model for analysis of the Stanford Writing Assessment results and is intended to help schools and districts analyze their own data and use relevant information and analytical processes from the document to plan and direct student learning. The report's first section, an overview, discusses: purpose, background of writing test administrations, description of the Stanford Writing Assessment, scoring procedure, approach to program analysis, curriculum validity, and general summary of student performance. The second section contains the analysis of assessment results, presenting stanine distributions for each grade separately. The report's third section presents conclusions and recommendations for improving student performance in writing. Appendixes contain scoring rubrics, matches of writing dimensions with performance expectations, and matches of writing dimensions with language arts program objectives. (SR)