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| English Education | 2 |
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| Olson, Miles C. | 2 |
| DiStefano, Philip | 1 |
| Swadener, Marc | 1 |
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| Reports - Descriptive | 2 |
| Opinion Papers | 1 |
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Peer reviewedOlson, Miles C.; Swadener, Marc – English Education, 1984
Describes the Colorado Writing Assessment Program, a testing program that provides two kinds of feedback to teachers and students: (1) a holistic score that measures the general quality of writing and (2) a set of scores on analytic scales that reflect students' achievement in four areas. Concludes that the program works. (FL)
Descriptors: Curriculum Development, Elementary Secondary Education, Evaluation Methods, Higher Education
Peer reviewedDiStefano, Philip; Olson, Miles C. – English Education, 1980
Describes the Colorado Writing Project, a teacher-consultant inservice training program, and presents the results of holistic scoring of papers by students whose teachers had attended inservice meetings conducted by the teacher-consultants. (HTH)
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Holistic Evaluation, Inservice Teacher Education, Institutes (Training Programs)
