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ISBN13:9789004546233
ISBN10:9004546235
Binding:Hardback
No. of pages:330 pages
Size:235x155 mm
Weight:702 g
Language:English
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Conceptualizing, Designing, Implementing, and Evaluating Writing Interventions

 
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Short description:

This book guides you in investigating writing interventions in everyday educational practice. Innovative approaches on how to conceptualize, design, implement, and evaluate writing interventions are presented and illustrated by inspiring examples.

Long description:
This book takes a fresh look at the challenge of setting up educational writing intervention studies in authentic class contexts. In four sections, the book offers innovative approaches on how to conceptualize, design, implement, and evaluate writing interventions for research purposes. Hot topics in the field such as professional development for scaling up writing interventions, building research practice partnerships, implementation variation and fidelity, and response to intervention are addressed. To illustrate the proposed approaches for writing promotion, the book showcases a wide variety of writing interventions from around the world, ranging from single-participant designs to large-scale intervention studies in writing.
Table of Contents:
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Notes on Contributors



1 Writing Intervention Research in Authentic Classroom Contexts: A Brief Introduction

Fien De Smedt, Renske Bouwer, Teresa Limpo and Steve Graham



Part 1 Conceptualizing a Writing Intervention





2 Writing Instruction and Intervention Research: A Historical and Theoretical Perspective

Steve Graham



Part 2 Designing High
-Quality Interventions Research in Writing





3 Designing and Reporting Interventions: From a Blueprint to a Systematic and Analytic Description

Fien De Smedt



4 Designing Large
-Scale Intervention Studies to Identify What Works in Writing


Kausalai (Kay) Wijekumar, Puiwa Lei and Herb Turner



5 Single Participant Designs: A Successful Method for Validating Writing Instruction

Jean Schumaker



Part 3 Implementing Writing Interventions in Authentic Classroom Contexts





6 Practice
-Based Professional Development for Scaling Up Writing Interventions: Lessons Learned and Challenges Remaining


Karen Harris, April Camping and Debra McKeown



7 Implementing Interventions in Authentic Classroom Contexts

Researching with Professional Communities through Building Research Practice Partnerships

Judy Parr, Debra Myhill and Rebecca Jesson



8 Fidelity of Implementation

Amy Gillespie Rouse



9 Response to Intervention as a Framework to Implement Writing Interventions: Opportunities and Challenges

Mar&&&x00ED;a Arrimada



Part 4 Evaluating the Effectiveness of Writing Interventions





10 Guidelines for the Validation of Writing Assessment in Intervention Studies

Renske Bouwer, Elke Van Steendam and Marije Lesterhuis



11 Process Measures as Input for and as Outcome of Writing Intervention Studies

Nina Vandermeulen



12 Evaluating the Effectiveness of Writing Interventions: Motivational Outcomes

Sharon Zumbrunn and Roger Bruning



13 Qualitative and Mixed Methods in Assessing Writing Interventions

Anna Hall, Beth Beschorner, Kelley White and Qianyi Gao



14 On Multilevel Modeling in Writing Research: An Example

Huub van den Bergh and Sven De Maeyer



15 Reflections on Some Key Issues in Research on Writing Interventions

Charles A. MacArthur



Index