Online ISSN: 2325-7466
2006
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National Association of Special Education Teachers (NASET)
United States

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Using a Four-point Scaled Writing Rubric: Improving the Quantity and the Quality of the Writing in a First Grade Specialized 8:1:1 Classroom

  • Lynn Carlson, M.P.S. (Author) Manhattanville College image/svg+xml
    Lynn Carlson is currently an instructor at the elementary level for medically fragile special needs students in the West. She received her Master of Professional Studies degree from Manhattanville College in Special Education with a dual certification in Literacy. Her research interests focus on the effects of the social cultural influence on the cognitive writing process of special needs students.
DOI
https://doi.org/10.64546/jaasep.206
Abstract
Educators today are faced with learning to implement the Common Core Standards in Language Arts and Math. Administrators are requiring grade level general education teachers/special education teachers to meet in Private Learning Communities in order to discuss the best ways to implement the CCS as well as to discuss best practices for writing instruction through close analysis of student writing. Research suggests that students use both cognitive and social processes when composing a writing piece (MacArthur, Graham, & Fitzgerald, 2006). Therefore, this study evaluates the importance of first using the social cultural writing process in order to enhance the cognitive writing process of students before they responded to a writing prompt. The study involved administering a journal entry pre-test, post-test, and final test over a four-week time period to eight first grade special education students in a specialized classroom. The results were calculated, analyzed, and conclusions/implications were recorded.
Keywords
Cultural Influences, Special Education, Cognitive Processes, Quasiexperimental Design, Journal Writing, Pretests Posttests
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Carlson, L. (2013). Using a Four-point Scaled Writing Rubric: Improving the Quantity and the Quality of the Writing in a First Grade Specialized 8:1:1 Classroom. Journal of the American Academy of Special Education Professionals, 8(2), 5-26. https://doi.org/10.64546/jaasep.206

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