This paper tries to evaluate the rate and the effect of critical thinking on reading and writing skills of students at I.A.U of district 3. Those who study library and Information science. More than 113 student were chosen for sampling analysis and Wilcakson analytical indexes were used for interpreting the results. SPSS analysis shows that the aching those skills can increase the students read...

The purpose of this research is to explain whether the effect guided writing can improve students’ skill. writer conducted in quasi experiment research. There are involving two classes for research, namely class and control class. used as technique without using writing. Before starting treatment, giving pre-test know how far ability text. After pre-test, give treatment experimental class, case...

Article History: Received 03.05.2013 Received in revised form 29.06.2013 Accepted 09.07.2013 Available online 05.08.2013 Middle school students lack efficient problem solving skills due to several factors. The writing process has been linked to the development of students' problem solving skills. The present study investigated the impact of the writing process on the mathematical problem solvin...

Skills in reading, writing, and mathematics are key to academic learning but are conventionally taught separately from the discipline areas to which they must be applied. For example, students may be taught writing skills in the morning in an English course and then be expected to apply them to writing an essay in a history class in the afternoon. Several problems arise with this structure. Fir...

This study reports the development and evaluation of a web-based interactive writing environment designed for elementary school students. The environment includes three writing themes, “story pass on”, “story chameleon” and “thousand ideas”, to encourage reading comprehension, creativity and problem-solving skills of students. Three assessment mechanisms, expert assessment, self-assessment and ...

This article discusses an interdisciplinary research project in which faculty from nursing and english collaborated in the assessment of students' critical thinking skills as reflected in writing portfolios. Faculty reviewed students' writing portfolios and then corresponded on email from two different universities about evidence of critical thinking in the portfolios. Findings suggest that wri...

This study investigates the validity of a writing model proposed as the underlying structure of the writing skill in English as a foreign language (EFL). Four writing prompts were administered to 178 Iranian EFL learners. The scripts were then scored according to writing benchmarks similar to the IELTS Writing criteria but narrower in scope. After interand intra-rater reliability analysis, a th...

We present an writing support system for assessing written arguments. Our system incorporates three analysis models allowing for rich feedback about argumentation structure, quality of reasons, and presence of opposing arguments.