Perceptions of Writing Skills

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Breland, H. M. , & Jones, R. J. (1982). Perceptions of writing skill (College Board Report No. 82-4). New York: College Entrance Examination Board.

Chase, C. I. (1968). The impact of some obvious variables on essay test scores. Journal of Educational Measurement, 5(4), 315-318.

Coffman, W. E. (1966). On the validity of essay tests of achievement. Journal of Educational Measurement. 3(2), 151-156.

Freedman, S. W. (1979a). How characteristics of student essays influence teachers' evaluations. Journal of Educational Psychology, 71(3), 328-338.

Freedman, S. W. (1979b). Why do teachers give the grades they do? College Composition and Communication, 30, 161-164.

Grobe, C. (1981). Syntactic maturity, mechanics, and vocabulary as predictors of quality ratings. Research in the Teaching of English, 15(1), 75-85.

Harris, W. H. (1977). Teacher response to student writing: A study of the response patterns of high school English teachers to determine the basis for teacher judgment of student writing. Research in the Teaching of English, 11, 175-185.

Markham, L. R. (1976). Influences of handwriting quality on teacher evaluation of written work. American Educational Research Journal, 13, 277-283.

Nold, E. W. , & Freedman, S. W. (1977). An analysis of readers' responses to essays. Research in the Teaching of English, 11, 164-174.

Stewart, M. F. , & Grobe, C. H. (1979). Syntactic maturity, mechanics of writing, and teachers' quality ratings. Research in the Teaching of English, 13, 207-215.

Werts, C. E. , Breland, H. M. , Grandy, J. , & Rock, D. R. (1980). Using longitudinal data to estimate reliability in the presence of correlated measurement errors. Educational and Psychological Measurement, 40, 19-29.