Strengthening School Connectedness to Increase Student Success
Category: Student Well-Being
Instrument Overview
The HEIghten Written Communication assessment addresses four dimensions: Knowledge of social and rhetorical situations, knowledge of conceptual strategies, knowledge of language use and conventions, knowledge of the writing process. The HEIghten Written Communication assessment is administered in a single 45-minute testing session. The first section consists of an essay task that requires the test taker to compose an original response which adopts or defends a position on a claim. In the second section, the test taker is presented with two passage-based sets, each of which includes 12 selected-response questions. The Written Communication assessment is part of a larger suite that also measures Civic Competency & Engagement, Critical Thinking, Intercultural Competency & Diversity, and Quantitative Literacy. Subscore(s): Written Communication
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Organization
Topic
Student Well-Being Category
American Institutes for Research® partnered with the Annenberg Institute at Brown University to collect instruments related to student well-being.
Content
Grades
Post secondary
Keywords
Student Well-Being ; Social-Emotional Competence ; Relationship Skills
Languages
English
Respondent
Student
Administration Information
Length
45 minutes
Administration
Computer,
Paper
Access and Use
Contact
Open Access
No
Setting
Classroom
Psychometrics (additional guidance)
Psychometric References
Rios, J. A., Sparks, J. R., Zhang, M., & Liu, O. L. (2017). Development and validation of the written communication assessment of the HEIghten® Outcomes Assessment Suite. ETS Research Report Series, 2017(1), 1-16. https://doi.org/10.1002/ets2.12185
