Chapter twenty ‘Assessment of Writing’ looks at assessment,
evaluation and reporting practices, and how they gauge the success of both
students and teachers. Assessment is
a general term to describe any activities used to judge a students performance.
It involves data collection, analysis, and the recording of information about a
student’s progress. Good assessment informs teachers of the abilities students
have and their relative strengths and weaknesses. Winch (2010) puts forward
that both informal and formal assessments are needed in the classroom.
Assessment of writing involves familiarity with the
content and structure of different genres as well as control over language
features. A student’s ‘writing ability’ may alter, depending on the task and
skills needed to construct a text. Validity and reliability are important and
complementary aspects of assessment that determine how appropriate, meaningful
and useful different assessment practices are. Therefore, different measures of
assessment should be used over time. For example: journals, essays and writing
tasks, portfolios and mind maps or concept maps.
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