Writing Skills, Knowledge, Motivation, and Strategic Behavior Predict Students' Persuasive Writing Performance in the Context of Robust Writing Instruction

Autor/inn/en	Graham, Steve; Harris, Karen R.; Fishman, Evan; Houston, Julia; Wijekumar, Kausalai; Lei, Pui-Wa; Ray, Amber B.
Titel	Writing Skills, Knowledge, Motivation, and Strategic Behavior Predict Students' Persuasive Writing Performance in the Context of Robust Writing Instruction
Quelle	In: Elementary School Journal, 119 (2019) 3, S.487-510 (24 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0013-5984
Schlagwörter	Writing Skills; Knowledge Level; Student Motivation; Student Behavior; Writing Instruction; Elementary School Students; Grade 5; Writing Assignments; Reading Comprehension; Gender Differences; Environmental Influences + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Writing skill; Schreibfertigkeit; Wissensbasis; Schulische Motivation; Student behaviour; Schülerverhalten; Schreibunterricht; School year 05; 5. Schuljahr; Schuljahr 05; Leseverstehen; Geschlechterkonflikt; Environmental influence; Umwelteinfluss
Abstract	This study tested whether writing skills, knowledge, motivation, and strategic behaviors (within the context of robust writing instruction) each made a statistically unique contribution to predicting fifth-grade students' (123 girls, 104 boys) composition quality and length on a persuasive writing task involving source material, after variance due to other predictors and control variables (reading comprehension, gender, class, and school effects) were controlled. With one exception, writing skills, knowledge, motivation, and strategic behaviors each accounted for statistically unique variance in predicting compositional quality. The exception involved writing knowledge, which did not make a unique contribution in the fall but did in the spring, when a topic knowledge measure was added. In addition, writing motivation, and strategic behaviors accounted for unique variance in composition length in the fall, and writing knowledge did so in the spring. (As Provided).
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Update	2020/1/01