Writting Assessment

Assessing Writing for a Purpose is necessary to use words like tell, describe, explain, convince, and illustrate to serve the purpose.

• True

• False

What aspect in assesing writing needs to be relevant to the text without loosing track of the subject?

• Organization

• Purpose

• Content

• Audience

What aspect of grammar and vocabulary does NOT need to be considered when assessing writing?

• Handwriting

• Rules for Verbs

• Sentence structure

• Word Order

Edward White (1990) considers that writing assessment largely depends on the “discourse community” in which it takes place, thereby suggesting that writing assessment depends on the people involved and the assessment context.

• True

• False

Writing can be assessed in different modes, for example analytic scoring, holistic scoring, and primary trait scoring.

• True

• False

How many types of tasks were mentioned in the video?

• 4

• 6

• 8

• 9

(Huot, 1990) to distinguish between test items that elicit extended writing samples and “indirect” multiple choice or short answer…

• items designed to assess writing proficiency.

• examples of items for writing and assessing

Instructions such as analyse, report, relate, compare, and synthesise are instructions for…

• Descriptive tasks

• Analytical tasks

• Reflective tasks

• Persuasive tasks

Select two of the practical considerations for writing test administration:

• Administration format (e.g., paper based, Computer based)

• Who will be administering and scoring the assessment (e.g., teacher, coordinator, etc.

• Place where the assessment is going to take place (e.g., school, house)

• Level of students taking the assessment

When doing a writing assessment, it is important to take into consideration how many students are receiving the assessment at a time?

• False

• True