Case 1: Every May school district X conducts a direct writing assessment. For four days, all students at selected grade levels participate in a standardized series of actives to produce their writing samples. Using a carefully scripted manual. Teachers guide students through the assessment with limited teacher directions and extended student writing time (up to 45 minutes) each day: Topic Introduction and Pre-writing (Day 1), Rough Drafting (Day 2), Revising and Editing (Day 3), and Final Copying and Proof reading (Day 4). The assessment clearly supports the Writing-as-a Process instructional model.