Diagnostic Writing Assessment: The Development and Validation of a Rating Scale (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9783631589816)

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: G?ther Sigott, Ute Knoch
ISBN-10: 3631589816
ISBN-13: 9783631589816
Publisher: Peter Lang Gmbh, Internationaler Verlag Der W
Language: English
Published: 11/06/2009
Pages: 322
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.18lbs
Size: 8.27h x 5.83w x 0.75d