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Achieving Equity in School Writing
2023Writing is a critical skill people need to survive and prosper in the modern economy. But most people fail to become competent writers. Those who succeed (at least, in English-speaking countries) are predominantly White, upper middle class, and female. These achievement gaps are primarily the result of opportunity gaps – in other words, they represent ...
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The National Writing Project, Teachers' Writing Lives, and Student Achievement in Writing
Action in Teacher Education, 2007Abstract This survey research on National Writing Project (NWP) teachers and comparison teachers (N = 35) in a southeastern state found that the NWP teachers wrote more than the comparison teachers did and that the participating teachers' writing was associated with students' achievement in writing.
Alyson Whyte +5 more
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Group Writing versus Individual Writing—Is there a Difference in Achievement?
Journal of Education for Business, 1995Abstract To determine whether group writing projects are a viable alternative to individual projects in terms of reducing grading and improving student learning through peer evaluation and peer teaching, this study compared students' individual and group grades on unfavorable and persuasive letters.
Janet K. Winter +2 more
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Writing Proficiency and Achievement Tests
TESOL Quarterly, 1969Teachers of English to speakers of other languages are often confronted with the problem of writing good test items both for the proficiency-type test and the achievement-type test. The technique of writing test items for the achievement test is similar to that for the proficiency test in that both are designed to measure the amount of skill in ...
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Proceedings of the 22nd annual international conference on Design of communication: The engineering of quality documentation, 2004
Cooperative writing requires a coordinated, engineered process. Groups must achieve coordination at three levels: a shared contextual motivation that translates into group actions, which operationalize as drafting activities. The arrangement of material resources in face-to-face settings supports those communication events. When efforts at coordination
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Cooperative writing requires a coordinated, engineered process. Groups must achieve coordination at three levels: a shared contextual motivation that translates into group actions, which operationalize as drafting activities. The arrangement of material resources in face-to-face settings supports those communication events. When efforts at coordination
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Students' use of writing strategies and their English writing achievements in Taiwan
Asia Pacific Journal of Education, 2012The purpose of this study was to explore the role of students' use of writing strategies in light of their English writing achievements in Taiwan. This research used a cognitive approach to examine the process of writing. Forty student writers (including 20 low and 20 high achievers) in Taiwan participated in this study.
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Capacity Achieving Two-Write WOM Codes
2012In this paper we give several new constructions of WOM codes. The novelty in our constructions is the use of the so called Wozencraft ensemble of linear codes. Specifically, we obtain the following results. We give an explicit construction of a two-write Write-Once-Memory (WOM for short) code that approaches capacity, over the binary alphabet.
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Achieving Consistency in Writing across the Curriculum
Kappa Delta Pi Record, 2003(2003). Achieving Consistency in Writing across the Curriculum. Kappa Delta Pi Record: Vol. 39, No. 4, pp. 186-187.
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Structural relations among implicit theories, achievement goals, and performance in writing
Learning and Individual Differences, 2022Ana Camacho +2 more
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