Abstract:The computer‐based Praxis I: Academic Skills Assessment component of The Praxis Series: Professional Assessments for Beginning Teachers™ will include a measure of prospective teachers' writing proficiency. Current plans call for making available to test takers (before they take the exam) a pool of approximately 80 essay topics, from which the actual test topics will be drawn initially.
The objectives of the study described here were to predict the impact of this policy on the ways in which test takers will pre… Show more
“…Generally, instructors felt that the instruction had helped students to write better essays on the topics included in the instruction and/or had improved students' writing skills more generally. A summary of instructors' comments has been provided elsewhere (Powers et al, 1992).…”
Section: Reactions Of Students and Instructorsmentioning
“…Generally, instructors felt that the instruction had helped students to write better essays on the topics included in the instruction and/or had improved students' writing skills more generally. A summary of instructors' comments has been provided elsewhere (Powers et al, 1992).…”
Section: Reactions Of Students and Instructorsmentioning
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