Top-down measures in 7th grade writing: the effects of genre and SES

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Standards as a Means to a Solution • Providing teachers with a research-based body of knowledge • Evidence-based information on how to assess quality of text components and the text as a whole – Age-appropriate for 7 th grade – Different school topics and genres – Ecologically valid for Israeli Hebrew 10
The Standards Project • Develops standards for the assessment of writing in 7 th grade Israeli students – Two SES backgrounds • mid-high and low – Three text genres • Narrative • Expository • Informative 11
Page 1 and 2: Top-down measures in 7th grade writ
Page 3 and 4: Research team at the Standards Proj
Page 5 and 6: Written texts • The core of liter
Page 7 and 8: Writing • Requires the active med
Page 9: The problem in Israel • No common
Page 13 and 14: Standards • Three dimensions of a
Page 15 and 16: Three dimensions of assessment •
Page 17 and 18: Top-down components • Each compon
Page 19 and 20: Participants and texts High SES Low
Page 21 and 22: Top-Down Measures 1. Number of word
Page 23 and 24: Results 23
Page 25 and 26: Text size (2): # Clauses 35 30 25 N
Page 27 and 28: Content Quality (Scale 1-6) 4.6 4.4
Page 29 and 30: Conceptual density (1): # Words per
Page 31 and 32: Global text structure (1) Opening s
Page 33 and 34: Global text structure (3) Text prop
Page 35 and 36: Interim Summary • Text size Narra
Page 37 and 38: Pearson Correlations (** at .01 lev
Page 39 and 40: First and second dyadic models •
Page 41 and 42: Text Contenct Quality Interaction S
Page 43 and 44: Summary and discussion • Content
Page 45: Thanks to all members of the Standa

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