Date of Award
5-2011
Degree Type
Dissertation
Degree Name
Doctor of Education (EdD)
First Advisor
Marianne Glenn
Second Advisor
Ray Reiplinger
Third Advisor
Houston Thompson
Scholarship Domain(s)
Scholarship of Discovery
Abstract
This study addressed a means of responding to the varying writing skill levels found in the standard high school classroom. A structured writing curriculum was examined through a state, national and marketed rubric, focusing upon a high-risk high school population in Chicago, IL. The research centered around cognitive learning theory, specifically, Vygotsky‘s zone of proximal development. Additionally, to account for the variance in skill level, a new measurement tool was created to quantify rigor in relation to increasingly difficult writing assessments. The longitudinal study determined that, with extended exposure, the proposed structured writing curriculum did enable students to meet state, national, and marketed expectations.
Recommended Citation
Mohammed, Zakieh A., "Writing Curriculum and the Adolescent: Addressing Skill Variance in the Classroom" (2011). Ed.D. Dissertations. 27.
https://digitalcommons.olivet.edu/edd_diss/27
Included in
Curriculum and Instruction Commons, Educational Assessment, Evaluation, and Research Commons, Elementary and Middle and Secondary Education Administration Commons, Rhetoric and Composition Commons
Comments
Ed.D. dissertation completed in 2011 for Olivet Nazarene University.