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Improving Students’ Writing Scores On The Alabama Direct Assessment Of Writing, Grade Five, Julia Sullivan Nelson

Abraham S. Fischler College of Education ETD Archive

This applied dissertation was designed to help increase the low-writing scores on the Alabama Direct Assessment of Writing, Grade Five at Burroughs Elementary School (BES), and how these low-writing scores have caused multiple concerns for the staff, students, and community. Planned intervention strategies were applied to effectively implement teaching strategies to assist with increasing the writing scores of the students. In order to write effectively, an individual must have certain teaching skills that will allow the students to accept and internalize the learning.

The writer developed an action plan to address the low-test scores of BES’s fifth-grade students who had …