Paragraph and Essay Writing Instruction for Struggling Secondary Writers

为苦苦挣扎的二级作家提供段落和论文写作指导

• 批准号: 8307494
• 负责人: JEAN B SCHUMAKER
• 金额: $ 25万
• 依托单位: EDGE ENTERPRISES, INC.
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2009
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2009-09-15 至 2015-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/8307494
• 关键词: Address; Adolescent; Adult; American Indians; CD-ROM; Child; Clip; Complex; Computer software; Control Groups; Data; Development; Disadvantaged; Drops; Education; Educational Curriculum; Educational Models; Educational process of instructing; Effectiveness; Employment; Enrollment; Feasibility Studies; Feedback; Film; Future; Individual; Instruction; Knowledge; Language Arts; Latino; Learning; Measures; Mental Health; Methods; Modeling; Multimedia; Outcome; Paper; Peer Review; Performance; Phase; Poverty; Process; Public Health; Publishing; Relative (related person); Risk; Sampling; Schools; Secondary Schools; Small Business Innovation Research Grant; Societies; Structure; Students; Testing; Textbooks; Thinking; Time; Translating; Unemployment; Workplace; Writing; abstracting; age group; base; career; college; computer program; computerized; design; essays; experience; high school; instructor; interactive multimedia; intervention program; junior high school; literacy; model development; peer; physical conditioning; product development; programs; prototype; response; satisfaction; skills; social; success; teacher; twelfth grade; visual information

Project Summary/Abstract for Phases I and II The purpose of this fast-track SBIR project entitled "Paragraph and Essay Writing Instruction for Struggling Secondary Writers" is to develop and evaluate the effectiveness of a total of four interactive multimedia (IM) software programs to be used to teach complex writing skills to struggling writers in secondary schools. The foci of the four programs will be (1) basic paragraph-writing skills, (2) advanced paragraph-writing skills, (3) basic essay-writing skills, and (4) advanced essay-writing skills. The lessons within each program will include an introduction to the program and the targeted writing skills, a description of how to use a targeted writing strategy, demonstrations, practice activities, and feedback. The Phase I project will focus on the feasibility of this medium for teaching complex writing skills to struggling writers. Measures will focus on (a) student use of the program, (b) student knowledge of writing skills, (c) student writing skills related to writing topic, detail, and concluding sentences within a paragraph, and (d) student satisfaction. During Phase I, an informal and a formal pilot test will be conducted to determine the feasibility of the prototype program. During each of the three years of Phase II, at least one informal pilot test and one field test of one new program will be conducted. A pretest-posttest control-group design with random assignment of students to groups will be utilized in each field test to determine the effects of each instructional program on student knowledge, performance, and generalization of the writing skills to complete writing tasks. The programs resulting from this project, because they will be designed to include instructional methods that have been found to be successful with at-risk students, should enable these students to respond successfully to the writing demands of their courses and minimum competency tests.

项目摘要/第I和II阶段的摘要 这个题为“段落和论文写作”的快速轨道项目的目的 苦苦挣扎的二级作家的指导是发展和评估有效性 共有四个用于教学的交互式多媒体（IM）软件程序 复杂的写作技巧，在中学中挣扎的作家。四个焦点 程序将是（1）基本段落编写技巧，（2）高级段落写作 技能，（3）基本的论文写作技巧，以及（4）高级论文写作技巧。课程 在每个程序中将包括对程序和目标写作的介绍 技能，如何使用目标写作策略，示范，实践的描述 活动和反馈。第一阶段项目将重点放在该媒介的可行性上 用于教授复杂的写作技巧来苦苦挣扎的作家。措施将重点放在（a）上 学生使用该课程，（b）学生的写作技巧知识，（c）学生写作 与写作主题，细节和结论有关的技能，段落中的句子以及 （d）学生满意度。在第一阶段，非正式和正式的试点测试将是 进行确定原型程序的可行性。在这三个中的每一个 第二阶段，至少一个非正式试点测试和一个新程序的一次现场测试 将进行。一个预测试控制组设计，随机分配 在每个现场测试中，学生将使用学生到小组 关于学生知识，表现和概括的教学计划 写作技巧以完成写作任务。该项目产生的程序，因为 它们将被设计为包括被发现的教学方法 在高危学生中成功，应该使这些学生能够成功回应 写作要求其课程和最低能力测试。