Tuesday, October 18, 2011

Holistic Writing Evaluation

Question: What features accounted for significant variance in holistic scoring of writing?

Answer: “Found that ‘quality and development of ideas’ was the only analytic feature to account for significant variance in holistic scores.” NN Vall. 1989. P. 215.

Comment: Interesting challenge to teach ‘quality and development of ideas.’ RayS.

Title: “Annotated Bibliography of Research in the Teaching of English.” JD Marshall and RK Durst, Eds. Research in the Teaching of English (May 1990), 205-221.

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