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Book SynopsisThis 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 ContentsList 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 Index
