Diagnostic Writing Assessment - The Development and Validation of a Rating Scale (Hardcover, New edition)

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.

General

Imprint:	Peter Lang Ag
Country of origin:	Switzerland
Series:	Language Testing and Evaluation, 17
Release date:	November 2009
First published:	2010
Authors:	Ute Knoch
Dimensions:	210 x 148 x 27mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover - Cloth over boards
Pages:	322
Edition:	New edition
ISBN-13:	978-3-631-58981-6
Categories:	Books > Language & Literature > Language teaching & learning (other than ELT) > Language teaching theory & methods Books > Language & Literature > Language & linguistics > Semantics (meaning) > Lexicography
LSN:	3-631-58981-6
Barcode:	9783631589816

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