This article describes and reflects on experiences teaching students to compose a “Writing Process Photo Essay” in the context of an upper-division college writing course that satisfies campus-wide requirement. As culmination quarter-long student inquiry into their own processes, this multimodal assignment asks combine text images help them reflect environments, tools, habits routines surround ...

BACKGROUND Reliable and valid written tests of higher cognitive function are difficult to produce, particularly for the assessment of clinical problem solving. Modified Essay Questions (MEQs) are often used to assess these higher order abilities in preference to other forms of assessment, including multiple-choice questions (MCQs). MEQs often form a vital component of end-of-course assessments ...

Medical students following a traditional curriculum get few opportunities to engage in activities such as a literature search, scientific writing, and active and collaborative learning. An analytical essay writing activity (AEWA) in physiology was introduced to first-year students. Each student prepared an essay incorporating new research findings with existing knowledge on a medical topic. Stu...

In March 2005, the College Board introduced a revised SAT® that included a writing section and discontinued use of the SAT Subject Test in Writing. To date, well over two million students have taken the new SAT, and this paper examines research and statistical results from the new writing section. The writing section is composed of multiple-choice questions and an essay. Each form of the SAT in...

In recent years plagiarism has been on the increase across the western world. This article identifies internet access as a contributory cause of this trend and addresses the implications of readily-available internet sources for the teaching and assessment of writing in schools. The basis for the article is a previous study showing a wide incidence of plagiarism in the internet-based writing of...

samples of participants’ writing were scored by two raters using toefl writing scoring rubric. the readability index of each text was calculated through the use of six readability formulae and graphs, i.e., flesch-kincaid index, reading ease index, fog index, smog formula, fry’s graph, and dale-chall readability index. the scores given to each essay were later compared to the obtained readabili...

This study investigates the roles of cohesion and coherence in evaluations of essay quality. Cohesion generally has a facilitative effect on text comprehension and is assumed to be related to essay coherence. By contrast, recent studies of essay writing have demonstrated that computational indices of cohesion are not predictive of evaluations of writing quality. This study investigates expert r...