Assessing the Writing Competence of High School Students: Lorain's EECAP, Its History and Implementation.

Autor/in	Valentino, Marilyn J.
Titel	Assessing the Writing Competence of High School Students: Lorain's EECAP, Its History and Implementation.
Quelle	(1986), (9 Seiten) PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Monographie
Schlagwörter	College School Cooperation; High Schools; Higher Education; Inservice Teacher Education; Instructional Improvement; Program Descriptions; Student Evaluation; Writing Evaluation; Writing Improvement; Writing Instruction; Ohio + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? High school; Oberschule; Hochschulbildung; Hochschulsystem; Hochschulwesen; Lehrerfortbildung; Unterrichtsqualität; Schulnote; Studentische Bewertung; Schreibunterricht
Abstract	In response to a nationwide concern for quality education and academic preparedness, the Ohio State Board of Education created in 1983 the Early English Composition Assessment Program (EECAP) for improving the writing competency of exiting high school students. Faculty from more than 15 two- and four-year institutions and many more high schools participate in this expansive collaborative project, which involves teacher inservice instruction and student writing evaluations. At Lorain County Community College, the program began with intensive sessions on holistic grading, followed by the assessment of the first control group of 1,500 and a second population of 3,000 in 1984. During the assessments, students write in response to a topic selected from several chosen collaboratively by the program steering committee. Each essay is evaluated by one college faculty member and one high school English teacher who have attended an initial writing assessment workshop or viewed a videotape of the workshop. All essays are evaluated twice by each reader, first holistically and then analytically. They then note strengths and weaknesses on an assessment sheet, copies of which are kept by the college, returned to the school, and returned to the student. Schools also receive a computer printout providing a profile of writing competency levels and writing strengths and weaknesses in that school and in the county as a whole. Since 1983, more that 28,000 Ohio students have been assessed, and 300 teachers have been involved in the inservice and assessments. (HTH)
Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC