Index Catalog // ScholarsArchive@OSU

An assessment of the reciprocal effect of high school senior low achievers tutoring freshman low achievers in English classes

Creator:: Werth, Trostel Gifford
Abstract:: The purpose of this study was to compare the effectiveness of a tutoring program and a traditional program in improving achievement for students registered in low achiever English classes in reading comprehension, language usage skills and spelling as well as student interest in the study of English. For this study...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: comprehension, language usage skills and spelling as well as student interest in the study of English. For

The identification of verbal, handwriting, and written composition skills and the level of those skills required by entry-level industrial mechanics

Creator:: Dille, Jeane Louise
Abstract:: The purpose of this study was to determine the importance and the frequency of use of certain communication skills to job-entrylevel mechanics as assessed by employers, educators at various levels, and entry-level industrial mechanics. The study was conducted in Lane County, Oregon. Communication skills investigated for importance and for frequency...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: difficult and must go into college "bonehead" or remedial sessions (Scully). In the teaching of English

Fostering Authority in Readers and Writers

Creator:: Love, Jennifer Mary
Abstract:: As a reader and as a teacher of introductory reading and writing courses, I am persuaded by the concept of a genuine authority in which all readers both value and seek to examine their early readings of texts. What I have come to regard as a pretended authority or mastery,...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: "English." Yet I cannot help continuing in my teaching to be nervous about relinquishing the seeming

English placement procedures in land-grant colleges

Creator:: Ireland, Margaret Jane
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: of English composition requirements and poli- cies. Periodicals dealing with English teaching and

A Group Informal Reading Inventory : an instrument for the assess-ment of ESL students' reading performance

Creator:: Stark, Merritt William
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: specialists in teaching of English as a second language have had so little to say about the teaching of

The extent of the relationship between reading and writing achievement among international students enrolled in a university freshman composition course

Creator:: Graber-Wilson, Gerri
Abstract:: This study examined the reading-writing relationship for 99 exclusively international students, and used narrative, and timed and untimed expository writing samples. The reading comprehension test was the Degrees of Reading Power (DRP), a test appropriate for use with English as a second language (ESL) learners. Results of the study indicated...
Resource Type:: Dissertation

'Reclaiming Voice : Enacting Social Discourse Communities in Belizean First-Year College Composition'

Creator:: Habet, André Antonio
Abstract:: This thesis explores the evolving purposes for the teaching of first-year English composition in Belize. Starting from an analysis of the underlying cultural assumptions of U.S. composition pedagogies, this thesis argues that American composition pedagogies need to be rethought when applied in a Belizean context to fulfill the country's unique...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: the teaching of first-year English composition in Belize. Starting from an analysis of the

The role(s) of literature in introductory composition classrooms

Creator:: Caster, Peter
Abstract:: First year college writing classes originated in the United States at Harvard University in 1874. Since then, theorizing such a course has proven a place of contention, as its purposes and subjects have proven difficult to sort and impossible to agree upon. When Harvard first began teaching introductory composition, literature...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: the English department made that subject literature. However, composition's traditionally remedial

Major inhibitory factors in the assessment of themes by Oregon high school English teachers

Creator:: Ellis, Barbara Gail
Abstract:: This study's purpose was to provide data on major inhibitory factors experienced by a third of Oregon high school English teachers in areas of: attitudes, behaviors, and physical and emotional effects of theme assessment. Methods employed two analyses: (1) statistical testing of the independent variable of teaching experience (1 to...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: to be an enjoyable or irksome part of teaching English? 104. Q55: Do you sometimes feel or do not

Charting their own course as writers : a study of writing-intensive students’ self-assessment and goal-setting at start of term

Creator:: Robinson, Tracy Ann
Abstract:: Curricular models and teaching techniques that support college students as the primary authors of their writing-across-the-curriculum experiences remain largely unexplored. This thesis addresses that research gap by investigating the use of a start-of-term writing self-assessment and goal-setting questionnaire (STQ) for upper-division undergraduates taking writing-intensive (WI) college courses in their majors....
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: Robinson for the degree of Master of Arts in English presented on April 24, 2006. Title: Charting Their

ScholarsArchive@OSU

An assessment of the reciprocal effect of high school senior low achievers tutoring freshman low achievers in English classes

The identification of verbal, handwriting, and written composition skills and the level of those skills required by entry-level industrial mechanics

Fostering Authority in Readers and Writers

English placement procedures in land-grant colleges

A Group Informal Reading Inventory : an instrument for the assess-ment of ESL students' reading performance

The extent of the relationship between reading and writing achievement among international students enrolled in a university freshman composition course

'Reclaiming Voice : Enacting Social Discourse Communities in Belizean First-Year College Composition'

The role(s) of literature in introductory composition classrooms

Major inhibitory factors in the assessment of themes by Oregon high school English teachers

Charting their own course as writers : a study of writing-intensive students’ self-assessment and goal-setting at start of term

Limit your search

Academic Affiliation

Advisor

Commencement Year

Committee Member

Creator

Date

Decade

Degree Field

Degree Level

Degree Name

File Format

Language

License

Non-Academic Affiliation

Peer Reviewed

Resource Type

Rights Statement

Subject

Search Constraints

Search Results

Limit your search