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Publication Date: 2004-Jul
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This One Is More Me! What Children Think about Writing Test Stimuli Involving Choice
Johnson, Martin
Literacy, v38 n2 p90-96 Jul 2004
This study follows from a previous study into children's attitudes to writing test stimulus features. In that study the views of 192 English eleven-year-olds were surveyed using a questionnaire. The survey found that the children were mainly influenced by features that they felt contributed to task difficulty. A qualitative study was designed in order to investigate children's views in more depth. Stimuli were constructed containing various features that children in the earlier study had suggested contributed to task difficulty. The children's ideas relating to the stimuli were elicited using a modified version of Kelly's repertory grid technique.
Descriptors: Stimuli, Writing Tests, Student Attitudes, Cognitive Processes, Childhood Attitudes, Foreign Countries, Early Adolescents, Questionnaires, Rating Scales
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Education Level: Elementary Education
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Language: English
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