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Geriatric Interprofessional Team Transformation for Primary Care overview
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effort identify effective instructional practices teaching writing elementary grade students conducted metaanalysis writing intervention literature focusing efforts true quasiexperiments located 115 documents included statistics computing effect size es calculated average weighted es 13 writing interventions included analysis writing intervention tested 4 studies six writing interventions involved explicitly teaching writing processes skills knowledge 1 interventions grammar instruction produced statistically significant effect strategy instruction es 102 adding selfregulation strategy instruction es 050 text structure instruction es 059 creativityimagery instruction es 070 teaching transcription skills es 055 four writing interventions involved procedures scaffolding supporting students writing interventions produced statistically significant effects prewriting activities es 054 peer assistance writing es 089 product goals es 076 assessing writing 042 also found word processing es 047 extra writing es 030 comprehensive writing programs es 042 resulted statistically significant improvement quality students writing moderator analyses revealed selfregulated strategy development model es 117 process approach writing instruction es 040 improved well students wrote supplemental materials httpdxdoiorg101037a0029185supp