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Showing 1 to 15 of 15 for “"writing assessments"”.
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Writing for numbers: The Cultural Production of Good Writers in the Time of High Stakes Writing Assessments
… have looked at the consequences of standardized writing tests to students' understanding of what it means to be a competent writer. Using research techniques drawn from performance studies and art therapy, this qualitative study of middle class, honors students invited them to explore their …
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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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A Secondary English Teacher's Use of New Literacies with Voice and Struggling Writers
Voice is an integral part of writing instruction, and over half of state writing assessments include voice on scoring rubrics; yet, there is a dearth of research on voice and writing instruction with adolescents. Increasingly new literacies and digital tools are being used in the high school …
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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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Assessing the Cyborg Center: Assemblage-Based, Feminist Frameworks Toward Socially Just Writing Center Assessments
… recent scholarship pertaining to socially just writing assessments by making connections among assemblage theory and materialism, studies of ecological and anti-racist assessments, and studies of writing center work, to ground theoretical conversations in everyday practices. Focusing on systemic …
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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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A COMPARISON OF METADISCOURSE MARKERS AND WRITING QUALITY IN ADOLESCENT WRITTEN NARRATIVES
… the reader. The use of metadiscourse in writing and speaking embodies the concept that communication is more than just the exchange of information, facts, and figures. Effective use of metadiscourse increases the coherence or holistic meaning of the written piece and also distinguishes …
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A COMPARISON OF METADISCOURSE MARKERS AND WRITING QUALITY IN ADOLESCENT WRITTEN NARRATIVES
… the reader. The use of metadiscourse in writing and speaking embodies the concept that communication is more than just the exchange of information, facts, and figures. Effective use of metadiscourse increases the coherence or holistic meaning of the written piece and also distinguishes …
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Principal Preparation Effectiveness: A Program Evaluation Of The University Of Mississippi's Principal Preparation Programs
… correlation between both the GRE and GRE Writing assessments and the SLLA. No other statistically significant correlations between program variables were found. The findings of this study indicate, though few correlations exist between program variables, principals from both University of …
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The Effects of Prompt Condition and Genre on the Writing Performance of Students in 3rd and 5th Grade
Research on writing at the elementary level has shown that prior knowledge and task environment can have a significant effect on writing performance. In addition, there is preliminary evidence that suggests that children's development in writing may vary by genre favoring the narrative over …
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Developing University Students’ Argumentative Discourse: An Ill-Structured Issue Pertaining To Black African Immigrants And African Americans
… integration abilities in persuasive essay writing on an ill-structured issue pertaining to black African immigrants and African Americans. Article One consisted of using phenomenography as a research approach to identify the qualitatively different ways university students perceive black …
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The Relationship between Reading Fluency, Writing Fluency, and Reading Comprehension in Suburban Third-Grade Students
… comprehension. However, little is known about writing fluency and its connection with reading comprehension. The purpose of this study was to examine the relationships between reading fluency, writing fluency, and reading comprehension. First, using the principles of assessing reading fluency, …
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Bridging the Gap: Why Many High School Writers Are Not Successful In College Composition Classes
… she outlines how Perry's model meshes with writing instruction, and writing is the central focus of my thesis. I examine how students are asked to think and relate to their own culture in both two and four-year institutions using Perry's world view stages not so much as a strict guideline, …
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Test Anxiety and Other Factors as Predictors of Outcome For an Undergraduate University's Examination of Writing Competency
… the need for research in test anxiety (TA). Writing apprehension, a subcategory of TA, may be of particular concern among students at all levels of education given the recent addition of writing assessments on the SAT and GRE tests.</p> <p>Very few recent studies have examined demographic …
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Investigating the comparative validity of computer- and paper-based writing tests and differences in impact on EFL test-takers and raters
… of computer-based (CB) and paper-based (PB) writing tests for direct assessment of second language (L2) writing. As the use of computers in academic writing and standardised language testing increases, it is necessary to examine whether CB tests are comparable to the traditional PB writing …