What instructional strategies participate in the development of writing skills? A secondary analysis of a large-scale survey
To find out about the instructional strategies used in French classes in Quebec secondary schools that participate in the development of students’ writing skills, we carried out a secondary analysis of data collected by the Description internationale des enseignements et des performances en matière d’écrits group (DIEPE, 1995) (1,815 secondary 3 students from Quebec, 300 French teachers). No instructional strategy predicts with a high degree of confidence the writing of better texts (two-level multiple regressions), but using the instructional strategy extra writing may be linked to better performance.