A COMPARATIVE STUDY OF THE EFFECTIVENESS OF WRITING UNDER TIME PRESSURE AND PORTFOLIO WRITING
A COMPARATIVE STUDY OF THE EFFECTIVENESS OF WRITING UNDER TIME PRESSURE AND PORTFOLIO WRITING
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2010-03
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ALTI, KASIM
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Abstract
This study compared the effectiveness of writing under time pressure and
portfolio writing of SS II students of Government Day Secondary School,
Malunfashi, Katsina State. The study sample consisted of eighty-four SS II
students (all boys). A quasi-experimental study was designed in which the
subjects were assigned to two treatment groups “time pressure” and “portfolio”
groups, after a pre-test was given to them. The pressure group were exposed to
time pressure writing procedure treatment three times a week for three months
while the portfolio group was exposed to portfolio writing procedure treatment
three times a week for three months. The aim was to compare the effectiveness of
each of the two writing procedures analytically and holistically, by comparing the
three writing samples of each students, one sample from each of the three months,
presented as Phases I, II and III. The findings showed that portfolio writing
students performed better than the time pressure writing students. Portfolio group
showed progressive writing development both analytically and holistically,
whereas time pressure group showed retrogression statistically in their writing
performance across the phases. It was, therefore, recommended that the portfolio
writing programme should be introduced into secondary schools writing
instruction and assessment to complement writing under pressure procedure.
Portfolio writing procedure could be used for both teaching and learning and, as
alternative assessment procedure which could help to guard against examination
malpractices
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A THESIS SUBMITTED TO THE POSTGRADUATE SCHOOL,
AHMADU BELLO UNIVERSITY, ZARIA. IN PARTIAL FULFILLMENT
OF THE REQUIREMENTS FOR THE AWARD OF MASTERS DEGREE
IN TESL
DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION,
FACULTY OF EDUCATION,
AHMADU BELLO UNIVERSITY, ZARIA – NIGERIA.
MARCH, 2010
Keywords
COMPARATIVE,, EFFECTIVENESS,, PRESSURE,, PORTFOLIO