G9 - Writing Assessment

G9 - Writing Assessment

C. Portfolio writing assessment

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Choose all assessment purposes that a writing portfolio can be used for:

• Diagnostic assessment

• Progress

• Providing feedback

• Assigning grade

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The assessment purposes of writing portfolio

• Provide diagnostic information about what students need to work on to inform class planning

• Help students become more self-critical and effective learners

• Provide evidence of progress

• Evaluate students progress

Why? 

Writing portfolio is a collection of students’ works, where students’ draft, different versions of works, students’ self-assessment are collected. It can reflect not only the writing ability in terms of ideas, vocabulary, grammar but also their improvement

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Pros of Writing portfolio

• Provide a richer, deeper, and more accurate picture of what students have learned and are able to do

• Help teachers monitor and evaluate learning progress over time.

• Develop sense of responsibility

• Easy to grade

• Allay student anxiety on taking examinations

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Cons of writing portfolio

• Be very demanding for students

• Be time consuming and requires utmost dedication and discipline to carry out

• Have no valid grading criteria as of yet have been established to evaluate quality of generated portfolios

• Be very difficult to objectively assess the contents of portfolios.

• Allay student anxiety on taking examinations