Hillocks's meta-analysis found task-specific inquiry-focused instruction the most effective composition focus contrasted¶

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q3 i? Hillocks's meta-analysis of exemplary experimental composition studies from 1963-1983 concluded that instruction teaching task-specific composing procedures via an inquiry focus was most effective. → Smagorinsky 1992

Evidence¶

Smagorinsky 1992¶

Smagorinsky, P., & Smith, M. W. (1992). The Nature of Knowledge in Composition and Literary Understanding: The Question of Specificity. Review of Educational Research, 62(3), 279-305. https://doi.org/10.3102/00346543062003279

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The review attributes to Hillocks's meta-analysis of exemplary experimental composition studies conducted from 1963-1983 the conclusion that an inquiry focus—involving students in inductive analysis of concrete materials to develop task-specific strategies—was "the most effective of the focuses contrasted." No effect size is printed in the review.

"Hillocks concludes from his meta-analysis of exemplary experimental composition studies conducted from 1963-1983 (1984, 1986a, 1987) that an instructional focus that teaches writers task-specific composing procedures is the most effective of the focuses contrasted."

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Related Claims¶

• Hillocks's meta-analysis found task-specific composing instruction the most effective focus contrasted — possibly the same claim (merge candidate)
• General composing heuristics produced mixed results in studies of their effectiveness — related