Sustainable development is a popular phrase often associated with environmental studies, but the phrase can serve as ecological metaphor through which to view environments associated with writing assessment and writing program development. Sustainable environments depend on symbiotic relationships. Writing assessment and writing program development constantly rely on the classroom environment a...

Today, great a number of assessment methods have been practiced in educational systems. However, Dynamic Assessment (DA), as the modern assessment method with its emphasis on improvement and development of learning through joining teaching and assessment, is of paramount significance. Thus, one can call DA as a major and revolutionizing factor in teaching and assessment. So far, some conducted ...

No significant body of research examines writing achievement and the specific skills and knowledge in the writing domain for postsecondary (college) students in the U.S., even though many at-risk students lack the prerequisite writing skills required to persist in their education. This paper addresses this gap through a novel exploratory study examining how automated writing evaluation (AWE) ca...

1 Jason Swarts ([email protected]) is a Ph.D candidate in the Language, Literature & Communication Dept. at Rensselaer Polytechnic Troy, NY 12180 2 Lee Odell ([email protected]) is a professor of composition in the Language, Literature & Communication Dept. at Rensselaer Polytechnic Troy, NY 12180 Abstract – The objective of this paper is to bring about a reevaluation of writing assessment practices ...

Student essays provide rich information about the students’ knowledge gain and the writing skills acquired. However, hand-scoring is time consuming and does not lend well to large-scale data analyses. Automated scoring of the writing allows monitoring and feedback for individual students as well as tracking changes in performance at district and state levels. We describe an operational implemen...

Guidelines are provided for the effective writing of psychoeducational reports based on a review of the literature and logical analysis . The literature on psychological assessment was selectively reviewed in terms of implications for effective writing of reports in a school setting . The literature reviewed consists of three broad areas : (a) surveys of consumers' opinions regarding various as...

this study aimed to investigate the washback effect of three alternative assessment procedures, namely oral-conferences, portfolios, and corpora-based feedback on the writing achievement and attitudes of iranian efl university learners. the participants taking part in the study were 156 native iranian students in a mixed reading-writing course. through the two three-month semesters, the learner...