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Writing Apprehension in the Classroom: Teacher Role Expectancies of the Apprehensive Writer.
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Daly, John A. – Research in the Teaching of English, 1979
Describes a study which sought to determine whether writing apprehension, and behaviors associated with it, served as determinants of teacher judgments and which identified some expectations, perceptions and evaluations held by teachers of students who vary in apprehension. (DD)
Descriptors: Anxiety, Educational Research, Expectation, Higher Education
Academic Decisions as a Function of Writing Apprehension
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Daly, John A.; Shamo, Wayne – Research in the Teaching of English, 1978
Describes a study which found that highly writing apprehensive students selected majors perceived as having less writing required than those chosen by non-apprehensives. (DD)
Descriptors: Academic Aspiration, Anxiety, Decision Making, Educational Research
The Empirical Development of an Instrument to Measure Writing Apprehension
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Daly, John A.; Miller, Michael D. – Research in the Teaching of English, 1975
Descriptors: Anxiety, Classroom Environment, Educational Research, English Instruction
Further Studies on Writing Apprehension: SAT Scores, Success Expectations, Willingness to Take Advanced Courses, and Sex Differences
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Daly, John A.; Miller, Michael D. – Research in the Teaching of English, 1975
The writing apprehension test yields valuable information about students as writers. (JH)
Descriptors: Anxiety, College Freshmen, Diagnostic Tests, Educational Research
Writing Apprehension, Self-Esteem, and Personality.
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Daly, John A.; Wilson, Deborah A. – Research in the Teaching of English, 1983
Relates writing apprehension to a variety of measures of self-esteem and personality in 13 separate studies. (HOD)
Descriptors: Higher Education, Measures (Individuals), Meta Analysis, Personality Traits
Statistical Power in Research in English Education.
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Daly, John A.; Hexamer, Anne – Research in the Teaching of English, 1983
Suggests why statistical power is of special importance to English education researchers, specifies procedures for calculating power, and assesses the power of empirical research published in this journal during a three-year period. (FL)
Descriptors: Educational Research, English Instruction, Power (Statistics), Research Methodology