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An Emic View Of Student Writing And The Writing Process, Michael Hass, Jan Osborn
An Emic View Of Student Writing And The Writing Process, Michael Hass, Jan Osborn
English Faculty Articles and Research
This study uses student reflections of previous success in academic writing to guide instructors as they design writing assignments. Seventy-one students in five classes responded to a questionnaire designed to help them identify particularly successful writing experiences and reflect on the circumstances, strategies, and methods they believed impacted their success. Student responses to these questions were analyzed to identify broad categories or themes. This process produced an "emic" or insider's view of what constitutes successful writing assignments and writing process. The findings suggest that students self report their writing as successful when the writing assignment engenders engagement, commitment, collaboration, a …
Best Practices In Writing Assessment, Robert C. Calfee, Roxanne Greitz Miller
Best Practices In Writing Assessment, Robert C. Calfee, Roxanne Greitz Miller
Education Faculty Books and Book Chapters
Our assignment in this chapter is to discuss best practices in writing assessment, a task that poses a twofold challenge for teachers-first, the task of providing authentic opportunities for students to acquire skill in writing while covering an ever-increasing array of other curriculum demands; second, the overriding pressures to ensure that students perform well on the standardized tests that have become the primary accountability index. As we complete this chapter, few state testing systems rely to any significant degree on performance tests for measuring student achievement. Multiple-choice tests dominate, and on-demand writing tests (including the SAT) generally contravene the counsel …