Diagnostic Writing Assessment: The Development and Validation of a Rating Scale - Couverture rigide

Knoch, Ute

 
9783631589816: Diagnostic Writing Assessment: The Development and Validation of a Rating Scale
Couverture rigide
ISBN 10 : 3631589816 ISBN 13 : 9783631589816
Editeur : Peter Lang AG, 2009

Synopsis

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.

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À propos de l?auteur

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.

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Éditeur
Peter Lang AG
Date d'édition
2009
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
3631589816
ISBN 13 
9783631589816
Reliure
Relié
Nombre de pages
322
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Personne responsable
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