ASSESSING WRITING

CHAPTER 4

•ASSESSING WRITING

•Approaches

•Indirect: corrects usage in sentence level

•Direct: measures students' ability to communicate

•Designing assessment tasks

•1.rubric

•2.prompt

•3.expected response

•4.post-task evaluation

•Techniques for Assessing Writing: guided writing, free-writing

•Issues in Writing Assessment: time allocation, process vrs product, use of technology, topic restriction

•Authentic Writing Assessment: Student-teacher conferences, self-assessment, peer assessment, portfolio-based assessment.

•Scales: Holistic and Analiytical