Table 5 Narrative writing tasks: descriptive statistics
| Task | Statistics | Higher-level skills | Lower-level skills | Total | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Organization | Development | Sentence structure | Word choice and grammar | Mechanics | |||
| 1 |
Mean Std. deviation |
13.10 .83 |
15.18 .99 |
19.14 1.61 |
28.17 .70 |
18.01 .70 |
18.72 1.82 |
| 2 |
Mean Std. deviation |
11.04 1.04 |
10.64 .43 |
18.80 .81 |
26.80 .94 |
15.29 .49 |
16.51 .99 |
| 3 |
Mean Std. deviation |
9.11 .91 |
8.81 1.60 |
14.01 1.36 |
23.99 .68 |
10.70 1.04 |
13.32 1.73 |
| 4 |
Mean Std. deviation |
9.40 1.00 |
7.67 .24 |
11.82 .92 |
20.02 .60 |
7.30 .34 |
11.24 .88 |
| 5 |
Mean Std. deviation |
7.87 1.25 |
6.09 1.22 |
10.50 1.20 |
18.12 .94 |
4.70 .62 |
9.45 .94 |
| 6 |
Mean Std. deviation |
6.81 1.02 |
4.13 .33 |
8.00 1.00 |
10.01 .77 |
2.20 .50 |
6.23 .94 |