Writing Performance Of Students Research Articles

Correlations Between Information Literacy Competency and Student Writing Performance in an English 101 course at an Urban Community College

This paper examines, and attempts to quantify, the effects of acquiring Information Literacy skills and their subsequent impact on student performance in English Composition courses at Queensboroug...

The Impact of an Automated Evaluation System on Student-Writing Performance

The Impact of an Automated Evaluation System on Student-Writing Performance

The Effect of Mode Discourse on Student Writing Performance: Implications for Policy

To determine the reliability of evaluation decisions about student writing competency across modes of discourse, a large sample of students was randomly assigned a writing task in one of four modes of discourse. Analysis of the data revealed significant differences between the mean score of narrative writing and scores for descriptive, expository, and persuasive writing. The decision consistency analysis also found that on the average, 30% of the students were misclassified across the modes of discourse. It follows from these results that modes of discourse do not appear to be interchangeable for making decisions about the overall writing competency of either groups of, or individual, students.

The Effect of Mode Discourse on Student Writing Performance: Implications for Policy

The Effect of Mode Discourse on Student Writing Performance: Implications for Policy