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ASSESSING WRITING

• PEPI FIDIA, M.Pd

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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)

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Types of Classroom Writing Performance

• 1. Imitative, or writing down
• Intensive, or controlled
• (guided writing)
• 3. Self-writing
• 4. Display writing
• 5. Real writing

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TYPES OF REAL WRITING

1. Academic Writing
2. Vocational / technical
3. Personal.

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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.

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Designing Assessment Tasks Imitative Writing

• 1. Task in (hand) Writing Letter, Words,
• and Punctuation
• 2. Spelling Tasks and Detecting Phoneme-
• Grapheme Correspondences

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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

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Spelling Tasks and Detecting Phoneme Grapheme
Correspondences

• Spelling tests
• Picture-cued tasks
• Multiple-choice techniques
• Matching phonetic symbols

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Designing Assessment Tasks Intensive
(Controlled) Writing

• Dictation and Dicto-Comp
• Grammatical Transformation Tasks.
• Picture-Cued Tasks

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Designing Assessment Task Responsive and
Extensive Writing

• Paraphrasing
• Guided Question and Answer
• Paragraph Construction Tasks

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Scoring Methods for Responsive and Extensive
Writing

• Holistic Scoring
• Primary Trait Scoring
• Analytic Scoring

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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
  writers strengths.
• Applicability to write across many different
  disciplines.

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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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