The document discusses three approaches to scoring student writing: objective, holistic, and analytic. The objective approach uses quantified methods and focuses on specific elements like spelling in a limited sample. The holistic approach considers the overall composition and assigns a single score based on general ability. The analytic approach separately scores various components of writing like content, organization, and mechanics. Each approach has advantages, like holistic being quick, and disadvantages, like objective focusing only on weaknesses.
The document discusses three approaches to scoring student writing: objective, holistic, and analytic. The objective approach uses quantified methods and focuses on specific elements like spelling in a limited sample. The holistic approach considers the overall composition and assigns a single score based on general ability. The analytic approach separately scores various components of writing like content, organization, and mechanics. Each approach has advantages, like holistic being quick, and disadvantages, like objective focusing only on weaknesses.
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Identify and Differentiate the Different Approaches Used In
The document discusses three approaches to scoring student writing: objective, holistic, and analytic. The objective approach uses quantified methods and focuses on specific elements like spelling in a limited sample. The holistic approach considers the overall composition and assigns a single score based on general ability. The analytic approach separately scores various components of writing like content, organization, and mechanics. Each approach has advantages, like holistic being quick, and disadvantages, like objective focusing only on weaknesses.
The document discusses three approaches to scoring student writing: objective, holistic, and analytic. The objective approach uses quantified methods and focuses on specific elements like spelling in a limited sample. The holistic approach considers the overall composition and assigns a single score based on general ability. The analytic approach separately scores various components of writing like content, organization, and mechanics. Each approach has advantages, like holistic being quick, and disadvantages, like objective focusing only on weaknesses.
Identification of the approaches used in scoring a) Objective Approach b) Holistic Approach c) Analytic Approach
Objective Approach It relies on quantified methods of evaluating students writing. Standardize the assessment and make a limit on the length of the assessment. (count the first 250 words of the essay) Have a specific thing to be assessed. (identify any mistakes in the first 250 words; spelling, verb tense, vocabulary) Make a specific score for the assessment.
Holistic Approach The reader reacts to the students compositions as a whole and a single score is awarded to the writing (eg, score 1-4). The score will have a description of ability. This technique to grading emphasizes functional and communicative ability rather than discrete linguistic ability and accuracy.
Analytic Approach Raters assess students performance on a variety of categories which are hypothesized to make up the skill of writing.
Components Weight Content 30 points Organisation 20 points Vocabulary 20 points Language Used 25 points Mechanics 5 points
Quickly graded Provide a public standard that is understood by the teachers and students Relatively higher degree of rater reliability Applicable to the assessment of many different topics Emphasise the students strengths rather than their weaknesses. The single score may cover differences across individual compositions. Does not provide a lot of diagnostic feedback
Analytical It provides clear guidelines in grading in the form of the various components. Allows the graders to consciously address important aspects of writing. Writing ability is unnaturally split up into components.
Objective Emphasises the students strengths rather than their weaknesses.
Still some degree of subjectivity involved. Focused on the negative aspects of the learners writing without giving credit for what they can do well.