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Showing 1 to 7 of 7 for “"High school writing"”.
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Lexical and Collocational Sophistication in Chinese High School Writing
… language users employ word combinations in their writing has attracted researchers’ attention for many years. This thesis explores how Chinese senior high school students make use of their lexical and collocational knowledge in their academic writing. This thesis applies two corpora to compare …
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Seeking the center frame: A case study of leadership in two Chicago suburban high school writing centers.
… case study of leadership in two Chicago suburban high school writing centers.
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An exploratory study on the impact of alternative approaches to the treatment of bullying at the middle/high school level in a southern New Jersey public school district
… within the context of a southern New Jersey school district. In the first study, 1280 middle school students were surveyed in the beginning of the school year and again at the end, after comprehensive treatment methods were applied. In the second study, a single high school writing class was …
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Metacognitive Writing Strategies for Emerging Dancer-Scholars: Uncovering Supportive Links Between Academic Writing and Choreographic Processes
… in dance but limited academic background in writing essays. Writing term papers, with perhaps only dim memories of high school writing instruction to draw from, can pose challenging experiences for such emerging dancer-scholars. While long standing metacognitive reading strategies are …
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Rater Drift in Constructed Response Scoring via Latent Class Signal Detection Theory and Item Response Theory
… scale tests: teacher certification test and high school writing test. These tests use the same set of raters for long periods of time, where each rater's scoring is examined on a monthly basis. Results from the empirical analysis showed that rater models were effective to detect changes in …
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Understanding the transition from high school to college for eight student writers
… perspective, what it means to transition from high school to college as a writer. Drawing on student interviews, school-based and out-of-school writing, process logs, think-aloud protocols, and interviews with students’ family members and teachers, the study also sought to understand how and …
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Best Practices of High School Principals for Improving Student Achievement in Urban Schools
… this study was to examine the best practices of high school principals for improving student achievement in eight urban high schools in the Metro Atlanta area. Specifically, the best practices of urban Georgia high school principals in the areas of vision, risk-taking, human development, belief …