Full 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.
Contents
List of Figures
List of Tables
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
María 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
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