1. ASSESSING WRITING
PEPI FIDIA, M.Pd

2. GENRES OF WRITING : Academic Writing
(essay, composition, journal, theses )
Job-related Writing
(memo, message, report, announcement)
Personal Writing
( letter, e mail, greeting card, diary, notes)

3. Types of Classroom Writing Performance :
1. Imitative, or writing down
Intensive, or controlled
(guided writing)
3. Self-writing
4. Display writing
5. Real writing

4. TYPES OF REAL WRITING :
Academic Writing
Vocational / technical
Personal.

5. Two categories of writing skills :
Micro Skills
Micro skills of writing are appropriately applied to imitative and intensive types of writing task
B. Macro Skills
Macro skills writing are essentials for the
successful mastery of responsive and
extensive writing.

6. Designing Assessment Tasks : Imitative Writing
1. Task in (hand) Writing Letter, Words, and Punctuation 2. Spelling Tasks and Detecting Phoneme- Grapheme Correspondences

7. Task in (hand) Writing Letter, Words, and Punctuation :
1. Copying
The test-taker reads: Copy the following words in the spaces given
2. Listening cloze selection tasks
Test-takers hear : Write the missing words in each blank. Below the
story is a list of words to choose from.
3. Picture-cued tasks
Familiar pictures are displayed, and test-takers are told to write the
word that the picture represents.
Form completion tasks.
Converting numbers and abbreviations to words

8. Spelling Tasks and Detecting Phoneme Grapheme Correspondences :
Spelling tests
Picture-cued tasks
Multiple-choice techniques
Matching phonetic symbols

9. Designing Assessment Tasks: Intensive (Controlled) Writing
Dictation and Dicto-Comp
Grammatical Transformation Tasks.
Picture-Cued Tasks

10. Designing Assessment Task: Responsive and Extensive Writing :
Paraphrasing
Guided Question and Answer
Paragraph Construction Tasks

11. Scoring Methods for Responsive and Extensive Writing :
Holistic Scoring
Primary Trait Scoring
Analytic Scoring

12. Advantages of holistic scoring :
Fast evaluation.
Relatively high inter-rater reliability.
The fact that scores represent “standards” that are easily interpreted by lay person.
The fact that scores tend to emphasize the writer’s strengths.
Applicability to write across many different disciplines.

13. Disadvantages of holistic scoring :
One score masks differences across the sub skills with each score.
No diagnostic information is available (no wash back potential).
The scale may not apply equally well to all genres of writing.
Raters need to be extensively trained to use the scale accurately

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