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Showing 1 to 20 of 91 for “"writing samples"”.
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Analysis of Syntactic Maturity By Grade Level and Sex of Children's Writing Samples Submitted to the 1983 Young Authors Conference
… investigator studied the syntactic maturity of writing samples provided by children at different grade levels and by sex of the author. The sample of the study consisted of two hundred forty-four prose manuscripts submitted to the 1983 Young Authors Conference at Southwest Missouri State …
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Impact of Student Achievement Through the Use of the Six Traits of Writing Model
… scoring of 30 randomly selected student writing samples gathered in the years of 2005, 2006, and 2007 in the Fargo Public School District. The 12 teachers were separated into three groups. Group A (four teachers) served as the control group, as they have been trained and currently score …
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Creativity in the Journal Writings of Academically Able Students
… certain creativity components in the cumulative writing samples of academically able students. Twenty-four fourth and fifth grade students who had written over either one or-two year time-spans participated in the study. Use of a researcher-designed instrument determined individual use and …
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What is the relationship of two staff development approaches: Early Literacy Inservice Course (ELIC) versus the traditional approach on writing composition performance of grade three students
… Early Literacy Inservice Course (ELIC) and writing achievement performance of grade three urban students. The sample population consisted of students in four third-grade classrooms. Two of these were regular classrooms. Two were ESEA classrooms where students scored at stanines three or …
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A study of the relationship between Let Me Learn and process writing: a qualitative analysis
… relationship between Let Me Learn and process writing. Christine A. Johnston's Let Me Learn Inventory was administered to a middle school class of 27 students, and 8 students were selected with use-first learning patterns in each of the four learning pattern categories. Once the 8 students were …
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Increasing expressive vocabulary through non-traditional instruction
… participated in the study. A checklist, student writing samples, and field notes were used to gather data surrounding varied forms of instruction and the ability of students to use newly learned words. Collected data was analyzed by categorizing the pre- and post-intervention vocabulary …
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Personal and social perceptions of college drinking: Implications for alcohol abuse prevention
… A classroom administered survey ($N$ = 302), writing samples ($N$ = 27), group discussions ($N$ = 27), and personal interviews ($N$ = 9) were all used.
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The Effect of Graphic Organizers on the Writing of Students in a Second Grade Classroom
… on the complexity of second grade students' writing. Twenty-two second grade students between the ages of seven and eight from a rural western New York school district participated in this study. The study involved having each student compose two separate writing samples that were then …
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A Study of the Effects of a Daily Writing Program on the Creative Writing Achievement of Second Graders
… determine if there was a difference in creative writing achievement scores when writing instruction was presented on a daily basis. The subjects were second graders from middle to upper socioeconomic backgrounds. The experimental group received daily writing instruction while the control group …
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Explicit Writing Instruction: Effects on Sixth Grade Students’ Writing and Reading Achievement
… study was to examine the effect of explicit writing instruction on sixth grade students' writing growth and achievement as measured by holistic and analytic assessment. This research responds directly to the need for additional research on effective reading and writing instruction (Langer & …
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Blogging in response to literature: reading, writing, and thinking through the digital medium
… data collected included student surveys, blog writing samples, classroom writing samples, and observational field notes. Blog posts were analyzed to ascertain their impact on students' levels of thinking through writing. Blogging habits and topics were examined to determine impact of blogging …
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How do grateful people cope?: exploring the mechanism of positive reappraisal
… different types of negative life events. These writing samples were then coded for the use of positive reappraisal. In addition to the writing samples, participants were asked to complete questionnaires assessing their gratitude, coping style and satisfaction with life. Results showed a positive …
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Writing Ourselves Out of Trouble: Exploring the Possibilities of Restorative Practices on Ninth Grade Writing Performance
… penal system, may positively impact student writing and better prepare them for the demands of college composition. Using grounded theory as a foundation, I use classroom observations, student interviews, and student writing sample analysis to explore the following questions: 1) What does …
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The Relationship of ASL Proficiency to the Written Literacy Skills of Children Who Are Deaf
… gain is evidence of richer language use in the writing samples of the 6th graders with High ASL proficiency. This finding suggests that greater ASL proficiency contributes positively to deaf children's development of written English.
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How Does The Use Of Picture Books During Instruction Improve Student Word Choice In Writing?
… instruction would improve student word choice in writing. Donald Graves (2003), a renowned researcher in the teaching of writing, states, "All children need . . . to be surrounded with poetry, stories, information books, biography, science and history, imaginative and factual books." Graves' …
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How grammar matters in NNS academic writing: the relationship between verb tense and aspect usage patterns and L2 writing proficiency in academic discourse
… of teaching grammar in ESL/EFL academic writing courses by restating the question of “whether or not to teach grammar” to “how and when to teach which grammar.” This study used 120 de-identified academic essays written by NNS students—40 essays from three levels of students—during the …
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The effects of type of written practice and time of writing sample on sixth grade students' argumentative written responses to literature
… (collaborative and independent) and time of writing sample (pre-training, mid-training, and post-training) on sixth grade students' argumentative responses to literature and on the development of three elements of argument (stating claims, citing data, and using warrants). Forty-eight sixth …
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Effects of Interactive Writing on Student Writing Achievement in a Primary Classroom
… study looked at the effective of the interactive writing technique on primary teachers and their students over a six-month period. The study consisted of three, urban, first grade teachers and eighteen students. Teachers used a self-assessment rubric to rate themselves at the start and close of …
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Holistic Assessment of Creative Writing, Grades 1-6
… the efficacy of the Modified Grosse Pointe Writing Scale (MGP) in the holistic assessment of writing samples from grades 1-6. Investigated in the study was: (a) the relationship between students' writing performance and reading achievement, and (b) inter-rater reliability of the …
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A comparative study of the writing and reading achievement of children, ages nine and ten, in Great Britain and the United States
… investigate the extent of relationship between writing achievement and reading achievement for children ages nine and ten from selected schools in Great Britain and the United States of America.The California Achievement Test ("Reading Comprehension" subtest) was used to obtain reading …
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