Assessing cohesion in children's writing: Development of a checklist

Assessing Writing

Volumn 18, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 187-201

  Struthers, Lynda ^a   Lapadat, Judith C ^a,b   MacMillan, Peter D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTHERN BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LETHBRIDGE   (Canada)

Author keywords

Children; Cohesion; Curriculum based measurement; Writing assessment; Writing development; Written composition

Indexed keywords

EID: 84879516084     PISSN: 10752935     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.asw.2013.05.001     Document Type: Article

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