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Showing 1 to 20 of 42 for “"Writing assessment"”.
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The Rhetoric* of Writing Assessment
The Rhetoric* of Writing Assessment uses strategic variations of rhetorical theory to reimagine writing assessment's complicated disciplinary past and rethink its foundational concepts through its multifaceted rhetorical situatedness. Although scholars such as Bob Broad, Brian Huot, Patricia Lynne, …
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The role of handwriting in ESL writing assessment
This study explored handwriting bias in ESL writing assessment and the phenomenon of national handwriting styles. It examined the effects of different styles and levels of quality of handwriting on the holistic assessment of intermediate-level ESL writing and how those effects related to the …
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Small-Scale Process-Oriented writing Assessment: An Action Research Study
… study designed and implemented a small-scale writing assessment program that integrated the writing process into its design. The writing process was evaluated as a criterion of the assessment and a report targeting specific areas of improvement in writing was generated to help inform …
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The CLA+ and the Two Cultures: Writing Assessment and Educational Testing
The CLA+ and the Two Cultures: Writing Assessment and Educational Testing concerns the Collegiate Learning Assessment+, a standardized test of collegiate learning currently being piloted at Purdue, and its potential impacts on writing programs and pedagogy. From an empirical, theoretical, and …
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Rater's perception of handwriting legibility and word- processing in l2 writing assessment
… This study focuses on the issue of handwriting quality and word-processing as biasing factors in English as a Second Language testing, specifically the English as a Second Language Placement Test (EPT) at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. Four expert EPT raters rated a total …
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Design and implementation of appreciative writing assessment in secondary English Language Arts classrooms
… appreciative (Bomer, 2011) approaches to writing assessment in secondary ELA classrooms. This study aimed to counter deficit (Paris, 2012; Valencia, 1997) approaches to assessment that focus on perceived errors in students’ writing. I drew on theories that explain the ways discourse shapes …
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The development and use of a writing assessment in an SED/LH classroom
Holistic approach--Whole language approach.
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The development and use of a writing assessment in an SED/LH classroom
Holistic approach--Whole language approach.
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Examining a Process -Oriented Writing Assessment in a Large -Scale ESL Testing Context
Arguments for the adequacy of each writing test as performance assessment were made by examining (1) the quality of essays written by the same individual on the two tests, (2) accuracy of each test with reference to content-field faculty's evaluation of ESL students' academic writing ability, and …
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Writing as Survival: Uncovering How Students Understand Antiracist Writing Assessment Practices in the Community College Composition Classroom
<p>The theory and practice of antiracist writing assessment ecologies (Inoue and Poe, 2020) emerged as a way to address and counteract the white, middle-class language norms that have dominated ethnically and linguistically diverse writing classrooms since at least the 1960s. Though social-justice …
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Collaboration in Language Testing: Investigating the Validity of a New Rating Procedure for EFL Writing Assessment in Korea
… in which trained students participate in a writing test as a complementary rater, specifically in the EFL context. The study has three research goals: (1) to investigate the psychometric reliability of self- and peer-ratings in a second language (L2) essay-writing test in Korea, (2) to …
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Writing assessment's "debilitating inheritance": Behaviorism's dismissal of experience
… dismissal of experience on contemporary writing assessment theory and practice within the field of composition studies. I use an archival study of John B. Watson's letters to Robert Mearns Yerkes to establish behaviorism's systematic denial of experience and its related constructs: mind, …
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Faculty Members’ Perceptions Regarding The Role Of Assessment In Developmental Writing Courses
… regarding how they design and implement writing assessments to evaluate Student Learning Outcomes in developmental English/writing courses. The study identified teaching faculty members’ pedagogical beliefs about the purposes of writing assessment and instructors’ attention to Student …
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Factors Explaining EFL Learners' Performance in a Timed Essay Writing Test: A Structural Equation Modeling Approach
… knowledge as the most important predictor for L2 writing performance with all five variables explaining 70.4% of the variance in L2 writing performance. Further, a simultaneous multi-group SEM with high and low- L2 writing ability groups indicated that L2 writing performance was explained by the …
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Rhetorical outcomes: A genre analysis of student service-learning writing
… between service-learning and student writing outcomes is not well understood. This study presents the results of a genre analysis of student-authored ethnographies composed in four distinct sections of a service-learning--based intermediate writing course at a Midwestern urban research …
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PEDAGOGICAL AND CULTURAL PHENOMENA OF ON-DEMAND WRITING INSTRUCTION
… districts across the state including its mode of assessment. KERA introduced new avenues of measuring student progress using writing as the main vehicle to assess content and communication skills. Unfortunately, the majority of Kentucky's high schools showed little improvement in this tested area …
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Portfolio assessment in ESL academic writing: Examining the effects of reflection in the writing process
Writing is done through a process of drafting and editing. Traditional writing assessment techniques, such as large-scale standardized tests and multiple-choice tests, are not compatible with the process-oriented curricula. Researchers and educators have started to explore other types of student …
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Implementing professional learning communities to improve student writing achievement
… teaching, and teach for understanding"(p. 198). Writing is required for all subject areas and is a life skill that is necessary for all students to be proficient. The ability to write well is essential for communication and productivity. In many professions, communication is of primary importance …
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