Writing motivation and ability profiles and transition during a technology-based writing intervention.

ABSTRACT: Students exhibit heterogeneity in writing motivation and ability. Profiles based on measures of motivation and ability might help to describe this heterogeneity and better understand the effects of interventions aimed at improving students' writing outcomes. We aimed to identify writing motivation and ability profiles in U.S. middle-school students participating in an automated writing evaluation (AWE) intervention using MI Write, and to identify transition paths between profiles as a result of the intervention. We identified profiles and transition paths of 2,487 students using latent profile and latent transition analysis. Four motivation and ability profiles emerged from a latent transition analysis with self-reported writing self-efficacy, attitudes toward writing, and a measure of wri

SUBMITTER: Cruz Cordero T 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10321671 | biostudies-literature | 2023

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature