Introducing teachers to new semiotic tools for writing instruction and writing assessment: consequences for students’ writing proficiency
Autor: | Hildegunn Otnes, Kjell Lars Berge, Lars Sigfred Evensen, Ragnar Thygesen, Synnøve Matre, Randi Solheim, Gustaf Bernhard Uno Skar |
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Jazyk: | angličtina |
Rok vydání: | 2017 |
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Writing assessment
media_common.quotation_subject 05 social sciences 050301 education Writing quality Education Writing instruction School subjects Professional learning community Mathematics education ComputingMilieux_COMPUTERSANDEDUCATION Semiotics 0501 psychology and cognitive sciences Quality (business) Construct (philosophy) Psychology 0503 education 050104 developmental & child psychology media_common |
Zdroj: | Assessment in Education : Principles, Policy & Practice Assessment in education : Principles, Policy & Practice |
Popis: | This article reports consequences for student writing quality based on a long-term professional learning project. Project teachers, representing all school subjects in grades 3–7, were presented with a writing construct, ‘Wheel of Writing’, and norms of expectation for writing proficiency. Participating teachers used the writing construct and norms as a basis for writing instruction and writing assessment. The project was conducted in 24 schools across Norway. 3088 students from 20 project schools participated. Two hundred and thirty three students from 4 schools were used as a comparison group. The investigation showed that students in primary school improved their writing quality significantly. Students in lower secondary school did not. However, there was substantial variation in writing quality effects between schools, classes, and individual students. For instance at a number of schools, project students from lower secondary school improved their writing quality significantly. The article discusses potential explanations of the effects. © 2017 Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group. This is the authors' accepted and refereed manuscript to the article locked until 2018-11-28. |
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