Evaluating placement exams with a structured decision system

✍ Scribed by Emil Roy

• Book ID: 104454027
• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 1992
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 873 KB
• Volume: 9
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 8755-4615
• DOI: 10.1016/s8755-4615(05)80019-2

✦ Synopsis

In a 1983 survey by the National Testing Network in Writing (NTNW), more than two-thirds of responding institutions reported using writing samples to assess their incoming students' proficiency in composition. According to respondents, half of these tests (53%) relied solely on writing samples. Researchers believe grades and multiplechoice writing tests fail to measure writing competence, arguing that, Multiplechoice tests cannot measure the skills that most writing teachers identify as the domain of composition: inventing, revising, and editing ideas to fit purpose and audience within the context of suitable linguistic, syntactic, and grammatical forms. (Greenberg,