Determining Change in Students’ Writing Apprehension Scores in a Writing Intensive Course: A Pre-Test, Post-Test Design

A writing intensive introductory course for RN to BSN students.

This article describes learning strategies used with RN to BSN students in their 1st nursing course to successfully learn how to write formal papers using the American Psychological Association (APA) format. This 1st nursing course, a writing intensive, requires 4 short papers with self, peer, and teacher critiques and opportunities to rewrite. Students learn the style of professional nursing d...

ACT Research Explains New ACT® Test Writing Scores and Their Relationship to Other Test Scores

A Reading and Writing Placement Test: Design, Evaluation, and Analysis

Placement tests, along with the growing interest in their validation, have become increasingly important in English as a Second Language programs. To this end, the present paper illustrates procedures in designing a placement test and using it to evaluate students’ language ability by means of statistical analysis. 29 participants from three proficiency levels (beginning, intermediate, and adva...

A guide to writing ABO test items.

Credentialing examinations are frequently the primary method for determining a candidate’s competency before entering a profession or achieving certification. “Credentialed” implies that the certificate holder is sufficiently competent to ensure that the health, welfare, and safety of the public are protected. The testing process is an outcome assessment tool that measures areas of mandatory an...

“Writing in Neuroscience”: A Course Designed for Neuroscience Undergraduate Students

Although neuroscience students may learn to write in a generic fashion through university writing courses, they receive little training in writing in their field. Here I describe a course that was created at the request of a Neuroscience Department with the intent to teach neuroscience students how to write well in their discipline. I explain the purpose for creating the "Writing in Neuroscienc...