Achieving Equity in School Writing: Causes and Cures for Opportunity and Achievement Gaps in a Key Twenty-First Century Skill

ISBN-13: 9781433193989 / Angielski

Paul Deane

Opis

This book examines why so many students fall behind and analyzes what teachers and schools can do to help them succeed.

Spis treści

Acknowledgments - Lists of Figures - Lists of Tables - Introduction - Why Writing is Hard - Writing as Purposeful Action: Motivation for Writing as Cause and Effect - Writing as Self- Regulation: The Mediating Roles of Reading Fluency and Working Memory - Writing as the Formulation of Ideas: The Mediating Effects of Prior Content Knowledge - Writing as Verbal Self- Expression: The Causal Role of Oral Language Skills - Writing as Getting Words on the Page: The Effects of Transcription Skills on Writing Development - How to Achieve Equity in School Writing - Conclusion - Index.

O autorze

Paul D. Deane (Ph.D., Linguistics, University of Chicago) is a Principal Research Scientist at Educational Testing Service in Princeton, NJ. He has published extensively in linguistics, computational linguistics, and educational measurement and twice received the NCME Bradley Hanson award for his contributions to educational measurement.