Writing is a way for students to develop and use their critical thinking skills as well as to demonstrate learning. The links below provide ways that writing can be used both informally and formally throughout the college curriculum and include specific methods for handling all aspects of the writing process from assignment-making to responding and grading. The final link for faculty is a mega-...

This study integrates a larger research empirical project that examines second language (SL) learners’ profiles and valid procedures to perform complete and diagnostic assessment in schools. 102 learners of Portuguese as a SL aged 7 and 17 years speakers of distinct home languages were assessed in several linguistic tasks. In this article, we focused on writing performance in the specific task ...

Diana Burman, Deborah Evans, Terezinha Nunes, & Daniel Bell Department of Education, University of Oxford Abstract Assessment is essential for designing individualized educational plans (IEPs) for children. In order to contribute effectively to this process, assessments must be appropriate for the group, show neither floor nor ceiling effects, and help teachers formulate specific aims. Differen...

Out-of-order diacriticals introduce signiicant complexity to the design of an on-line handwriting recog-nizer, because they require some reordering of the time domain information. It is common in cursive writing to write the body of a `i' or`t' during the writing of the word, and then to return and dot or cross the letter once the word is complete. The diiculty arises because we have to look ah...

This study aims to improve Students’ writing competence on fiction the 4th grade students in Elementary School. research conducted Cijantung 03 Pagi of public elementary school. The teaching learning process was 2 cycles. On pre-research, students’ still low. It yelled 55% or 20 32 had lower score (below minimum completeness criteria/Kriteria Ketuntasan Minimum), after first cycle, ‘writing ski...

Writing is a way for students to develop and use their critical thinking skills as well as to demonstrate learning. The links below provide ways that writing can be used both informally and formally throughout the college curriculum and include specific methods for handling all aspects of the writing process from assignment-making to responding and grading. The final link for faculty is a mega-...

Writing is a way for students to develop and use their critical thinking skills as well as to demonstrate learning. The links below provide ways that writing can be used both informally and formally throughout the college curriculum and include specific methods for handling all aspects of the writing process from assignment-making to responding and grading. The final link for faculty is a mega-...

OBJECTIVES This study aimed to determine students' satisfaction with a 2-day course on scientific writing in health sciences and to assess their perceptions of the long-term impact on their knowledge, attitudes and skills. SETTING 27 iterations of a 2-day course on writing and publishing scientific articles in health sciences. PARTICIPANTS 741 students attending the 27 courses. DESIGN Pro...

Objective. The objective of this survey was to explore the attitudes towards plagiarism of faculty members and medical students in Pakistan. Methods. The Attitudes Toward Plagiarism questionnaire (ATP) was modified and distributed among 550 medical students and 130 faculty members in 7 medical colleges of Lahore and Rawalpindi. Data was entered in the SPSS v.20 and descriptive statistics were a...

We introduce a cognitive framework for measuring reading comprehension that includes the use of novel summary writing tasks. We derive NLP features from the holistic rubric used to score the summaries written by students for such tasks and use them to design a preliminary, automated scoring system. Our results show that the automated approach performs well on summaries written by students for t...