NotesFAQContact Us
Collection
Advanced
Search Tips
Showing all 2 results Save | Export
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
Direct linkDirect link
Erling, Elizabeth J.; Richardson, John T. E. – Assessing Writing, 2010
Measuring the Academic Skills of University Students is a procedure developed in the 1990s at the University of Sydney's Language Centre to identify students in need of academic writing development by assessing examples of their written work against five criteria. This paper reviews the literature relating to the development of the procedure with…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Writing Evaluation, Assignments, Psychometrics
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
Direct linkDirect link
Gebril, Atta – Assessing Writing, 2010
Integrated tasks are currently employed in a number of L2 exams since they are perceived as an addition to the writing-only task type. Given this trend, the current study investigates composite score generalizability of both reading-to-write and writing-only tasks. For this purpose, a multivariate generalizability analysis is used to investigate…
Descriptors: Scoring, Scores, Second Language Instruction, Writing Evaluation