Purpose of this blog: Reviews of interesting research in English education journals. When possible, I suggest applications to the classroom.
10-second review: Statistics on leisure reading. Summer writing institutes. Achievement in composition.
Title: “Annotated Bibliography of Research in the Teaching of English.” RL Larson and A Bechan. Research in the Teaching of English (December 1992), 446-465.
Statistics on Leisure Reading. Found a statistically significant difference between females (85%) reported reading for leisure and males (65%) reported reading for leisure. MAS Moffitt and E Wartella. P. 452. 1992. [Comment: I wonder if the same percentages would be true today, (2010)? RayS.]
Summer Writing Institutes. Teachers made changes in their teaching strategies as a result of the California Writing Project experiences. The prewriting and sharing aspects of the writing process were most frequently implemented. S Dimililer. P. 455. 1992.
Achievement in Composition. Argues that in the assessment of a piece of writing with holistic scoring, scorers are judging nothing more than “perceived drafting quality of one performance, and that the profession errs seriously in attaching durable labels to student writers on the basis of one performance. A Purves. P. 456. 1992. [Comment: Raises a question. To what degree is the “draft quality” of writing on a writing assessment an accurate predictor of how the student writer writes? Common sense says to me that even accomplished writers vary in performance depending on the situation. On the other hand, the student writers in my community college classes who were judged ready for first-year composition on the basis of a writing sample could already write well and would suggest to me that the draft quality in the assessment is a pretty accurate predictor of writing performance. RayS.]
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