DESIGNING ASSESSMENT TASKS: IMITATIVE WRITING

TASKS IN [HAND-] WRITING LETTERS, WORDS, AND PUNCTUATION 

• COPYING, a test takers copy letters or words. 

• LISTENING CLOZE SELECTION TASKS, combination of dictation with a written script that has relatively frequent deletion ratio. 

• PICTURE-CUED TASKS, familiar pictures are displayed, and test-takers are told to write the word that the pictured represents.

 • FORM COMPLETION TASKS, use a simple form (registration, application, etc.) that asks for name, address, phone number, and other data. 

• CONVERTING NUMBERS AND ABBREVIATIONS TO WORDS, a section of numbers and abbreviations are written, and the test-takers are directed to write out the numbers or abbreviations

SPELLING TASKS AND DETECTING PHONEME-GRAPHEME CORRESPONDENCES

• SPELLING TESTS, the teacher dictates a simple list of words, one word at a time, followed by the word in a sentence, repeated again, with a pause for test-takers to write the word. 

• PICTURE-CUED TASKS, pictured are displayed with the objective of focusing on familiar words whose spelling may unpredictable.

• MULTIPLE-CHOICE TECHNIQUES, 

• MATCHING PHONETIC SYMBOLS,