ISSUES IN ASSESSING RESPONSIVE AND EXTENSIVE WRITING

Responsive writing creates the opportunity for test-takers to offer an array of possible creative responses within a pedagogical or assessment framework. 

The genres of the text are typically addressed here are:

• Short report (with structured formats and conventions) 

• Response and summaries to a reading of an article or story 

• Brief narratives or descriptions 

• Interpretations of graphs, tables, and charts 

In extensive writing, however, the writer has been given even more freedom to choose: topics, length, style, and so on.

• AUTHENTICITY 
• SCORING
• TIME 

FOUR MAJOR TOPICS WILL BE ADDRESSED: 

• A few fundamental task types at the lower (responsive) end of the continuum of writing at this level. 

• A description and analysis of the Test of Written English (TWE test) as a typical timed impromptu test of writing, 

• A survey of method of scoring and evaluating writing production, and 

• A discussion of the assessment qualities of editing and responding to a series of writing drafts.