[Simtrainer-l] Interested in your take on the writing

[Schumaker, Jean]

Hmm... I've always scored this type of sentence as a run-on sentence. Otherwise, you'd be giving the student credit for knowing how to form a compound sentence.  If the student really knew how to form a compound sentence, it wouldn't look like this! In other words, the idea is to just score the sentences as they appear without giving the student extra credit by surmising something.   Jean





From: Susan Woodruff <swoodruf at icloud.com<mailto:swoodruf at icloud.com>>
Date: Tuesday, January 29, 2019 at 1:23 PM
To: SIM Trainers <simtrainer-l at lists.ku.edu<mailto:simtrainer-l at lists.ku.edu>>
Cc: Jean Schumaker <jschumak at ku.edu<mailto:jschumak at ku.edu>>
Subject: Interested in your take on the writing

Hello ...
I'm working with a small district in Ohio.  I've noticed this pattern in the student writing in this district (especially high school), and I would curious how you would score these pretests for sentence writing.  I am attaching one student's pretest.

The particular error pattern I'm looking up shows up twice in this student's piece.  The very first sentence attempt is

"I have a very big family, I have 8 brothers and 2 sisters and 1 niece."

Would you score this as a run-on or a compound sentence not punctuated correctly?

Up until now, I've scored it as a non sentence - now I am second guessing myself.  I've seen this error regularly in the students' writing.

What do you think?
Sue


Here is student paragraph for sentence writing pretest:



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