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Kern, Diane; Andre, Wendy; Schilke, Rebecca; Barton, James; McGuire, Margaret Conn – Reading Teacher, 2003
Shares instructional practices based on narrative and expository texts that will build students' literacy skills and meet many writing assessment demands in the United States. Presents guiding principles for best writing practice, pertinent standards in the English language arts, strategy-based lesson plans, and practical implications for teachers…
Descriptors: Elementary Education, Instructional Improvement, State Standards, Writing Evaluation
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Daiker, Donald; Grogan, Nedra – Journal of Advanced Composition, 1991
Outlines the series of decisions involved in selecting and then using sample papers in holistic evaluation. Attempts to make test-developers aware that they have choices to make and that their choices will have serious consequences for student and evaluator alike. (RS)
Descriptors: Higher Education, Holistic Evaluation, Testing Problems, Writing Evaluation
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Moberg, Virgil B. – Journalism Educator, 1991
Discusses the use of entrance tests to admit students to mass communication programs. Advocates finding out precisely what an entrance test measures, and whether it matches what the curriculum demands of students. Recommends two essay tests that evaluate writing skill better than an objective test. (SR)
Descriptors: Admission Criteria, Higher Education, Journalism Education, Mass Media
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Carlson, Kathy; Cunningham, Jo Lynn – Early Childhood Research Quarterly, 1990
Examined the possibility of effects of pencil diameter on preschoolers' pencil management and performance. Each child used pencils of large or regular diameter to perform graphomotor tasks. There were no apparent differences in pencil management and performance related to pencil diameter. (Author/BB)
Descriptors: Handwriting, Object Manipulation, Performance, Preschool Children
White, Sheida; Vanneman, Alan – Education Statistics Quarterly, 2000
Contains the guide used by scorers of eighth grade informative writing in the 1998 National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP), samples of student responses at each of the six levels of performance, and a discussion of the scoring method. (Author/SLD)
Descriptors: Descriptive Writing, Elementary Education, Grade 8, Guides
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Bromley, Karen; Vandenberg, Amy; White, Jennifer – Reading Teacher, 2007
Building on the work of an earlier article ["The Word Writing CAFE: Assessing Student Writing for Complexity, Accuracy, and Fluency," Dorothy J. Leal, "Reading Teacher," 59 (4) Dec 2005 (EJ738016)], these authors investigated the use of a simple assessment tool with a different audience to yield similar useful results. (Contains 3 figures and 4…
Descriptors: Language Skills, Teaching Methods, Writing Tests, Vocabulary Development
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Elder, Catherine; Barkhuizen, Gary; Knoch, Ute; von Randow, Janet – Language Testing, 2007
The use of online rater self-training is growing in popularity and has obvious practical benefits, facilitating access to training materials and rating samples and allowing raters to reorient themselves to the rating scale and self monitor their behaviour at their own convenience. However there has thus far been little research into rater…
Descriptors: Writing Evaluation, Writing Tests, Scoring Rubrics, Rating Scales
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Deane, Paul; Odendahl, Nora; Quinlan, Thomas; Fowles, Mary; Welsh, Cyndi; Bivens-Tatum, Jennifer – ETS Research Report Series, 2008
This paper undertakes a review of the literature on writing cognition, writing instruction, and writing assessment with the goal of developing a framework and competency model for a new approach to writing assessment. The model developed is part of the Cognitively Based Assessments of, for, and as Learning (CBAL) initiative, an ongoing research…
Descriptors: Writing Skills, Writing Instruction, Schemata (Cognition), Writing Evaluation
Massachusetts Department of Elementary and Secondary Education, 2008
This paper presents the Final Report on the Audio-Digital MCAS Pilot Program. The Department and Recording For the Blind & Dyslexic (RFB&D) have collaborated to provide audio-digital read-aloud editions of the Grade 10 English Language Arts and Mathematics MCAS tests for a small number of students with disabilities such as dyslexia and/or…
Descriptors: Test Results, Individualized Education Programs, Pilot Projects, Educational Assessment
Warren, Scott J.; Dondlinger, Mary Jo; Barab, Sasha A. – Journal of Research on Technology in Education, 2008
Two major obstacles to using problem-based learning methods with writing in elementary school classrooms are the time it takes to design the learning environment and the time required for students to interact at their own pace with ill-structured problems used to spur student writing. This study examined whether game elements could be used along…
Descriptors: Problem Based Learning, Educational Environment, Teaching Methods, Elementary School Students
ACT, Inc., 2009
The ACT National Curriculum Survey is a one-of-a-kind nationwide survey of educational practices and expectations conducted by ACT every 3 to 5 years. ACT surveys thousands of middle school/junior high school, secondary, and postsecondary teachers in English/writing, reading (including English language arts and social studies teachers),…
Descriptors: National Surveys, Teacher Surveys, Teacher Attitudes, English Curriculum
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James, Cindy L. – Assessing Writing, 2006
How do scores from writing samples generated by computerized essay scorers compare to those generated by ''untrained'' human scorers and what combination of scores, if any, is more accurate at placing students in composition courses? This study endeavored to answer this two-part question by evaluating the correspondence between writing sample…
Descriptors: Writing (Composition), Predictive Validity, Scoring, Validity
Bolin, Bill – 1994
Many educators, students, parents and other taxpayers rely on the perception that literacy is some narrowly defined ideal, and that students must all conform to that ideal to become successful, (in other words) productive citizens. Sharon Crowley posits two ways of thinking about texts. In one, texts are discursive bits produced to engender more…
Descriptors: Literacy, Portfolio Assessment, Secondary Education, Standardized Tests
Breland, Hunter M.; Carlton, Sydell T.; Taylor, Susan – 1998
Based on the results of a Phase 1 investigation into the nature of legal writing, a prototype writing assessment, the Diagnostic Writing Skills Test (DWST) for entering law students was developed. The DWST is composed of two multiple-choice testlets based on prompts and responses to the Law School Admission Test (LSAT) Writing Sample. It contains…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Law Schools, Law Students, Questionnaires
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Davey, Tim; And Others – Journal of Educational Measurement, 1997
The development and scoring of a recently introduced computer-based writing skills test is described. The test asks the examinee to edit a writing passage presented on a computer screen. Scoring difficulties are addressed through the combined use of option weighting and the sequential probability ratio test. (SLD)
Descriptors: Computer Assisted Testing, Educational Innovation, Probability, Scoring
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