Diagnostic Writing Assessment

The Development and Validation of a Rating Scale

By:

Ute Knoch

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Series:

Language Testing and Evaluation

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The diagnostic assessment of writing is an important aspect of language testing which has often been neclected in the literature. However, it is an area which poses special challenges to practioners both in the classroom and in large-scale testing situations. This book presents a study which set out to develop and validate a rating scale specifically designed for the diagnostic assessment of writing in an academic English setting. The scale was developed by analysing a large number of writing performances produced by both native speakers of English and learners of English as an additional language. The rating scale was then validated using both quantitative and qualitative methods. The study showed that a detailed data-based rating scale is more valid and more useful for diagnostic purposes than the more commonly used impressionistic rating scale.

Author Biography:

The Author: Ute Knoch is a research fellow at the Language Testing Research Centre at the University of Melbourne. Her research interests are in the area of language assessment, second language acquisition, and language pedagogy.

Release date Australia

November 6th, 2009

Author

Ute Knoch

Audience

Professional & Vocational

Edition

New edition

Pages

322

Series

Language Testing and Evaluation

ISBN-13

9783631589816

Product ID

4728200

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