Writing Assessments
First assessment
Test of Early Written Language – TEWL
Source: Pearson Clinical website: http://www.pearsonclinical.com/language/products/100000086/test-of-early-written-language-third-edition-tewl-3.html#tab-details
The TEWL is an individual assessment focused on children ages 4 to 11. According to the publisher, this test takes 30-50 minutes to be administered. The assessment’s third edition was normed on 2,085 students and the test’s internal consistent reliability is superior to 0.90 for all ages. This test is suitable for pre-assessment, formative and summative evaluations, and it can be a useful tool for monitoring the progress of at-risk students, displaying the student’s specific abilities and unique skills by writing.
The assessment focus on children’s writing skills development, by evaluating it in three parts: basic writing (metalinguistic knowledge, directionality, organizational structure, awareness of letter features, spelling, capitalization, punctuation, proofing, sentence combining, and logical sentences), Contextual Writing (measures a child’s ability to construct a story when provided with a picture prompt, evaluating story format, cohesion, thematic maturity, ideation, and story structure) and Overall Writing (a combination of basic and contextual writing scores that helps determine the composition, syntax, mechanics, fluency, cohesion, and the text structure of written language).
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Click here for TEWL-2 assessment review by CREDO (2007).
Click here for TEWL-2 assessment review by Hayward et al (2008).
Second assessment
The Writing Roadmap
Source: Writing Roadmap by CTB/McGraw-Hill website: Http://www.ctb.com/ctb.com/control/productfamilyviewaction?productfamilyid=459&p=products
The Writing Roadmap is a program focused on writing skills for grades 3 and above, and it provides training and practicing tools for students as well as assessments for teachers, all available online. The assessment evaluates writing prompts and reading passages in seven styles of writing: narrative, informative/expository, descriptive, persuasive, opinion, argumentative, and informative/explanatory
The program provides varied types of report, which can help educators better understand a student’s progress and areas of improvement. There isn’t a set time duration for the assessment, since it will depend on how many and which tests will be administered. The scoring is done through an algorithm and its validation was studied and reported on a West Virginia validation study report with human raters versus the algorithm, suggesting that there is a “very good” agreement between the scores provided by the machine and the ones provided by the human rater.
Click here for assessment website.
Click here for the assessment’s Validation Report.
Click here for the assessment's informational brochure.
First assessment
Test of Early Written Language – TEWL
Source: Pearson Clinical website: http://www.pearsonclinical.com/language/products/100000086/test-of-early-written-language-third-edition-tewl-3.html#tab-details
The TEWL is an individual assessment focused on children ages 4 to 11. According to the publisher, this test takes 30-50 minutes to be administered. The assessment’s third edition was normed on 2,085 students and the test’s internal consistent reliability is superior to 0.90 for all ages. This test is suitable for pre-assessment, formative and summative evaluations, and it can be a useful tool for monitoring the progress of at-risk students, displaying the student’s specific abilities and unique skills by writing.
The assessment focus on children’s writing skills development, by evaluating it in three parts: basic writing (metalinguistic knowledge, directionality, organizational structure, awareness of letter features, spelling, capitalization, punctuation, proofing, sentence combining, and logical sentences), Contextual Writing (measures a child’s ability to construct a story when provided with a picture prompt, evaluating story format, cohesion, thematic maturity, ideation, and story structure) and Overall Writing (a combination of basic and contextual writing scores that helps determine the composition, syntax, mechanics, fluency, cohesion, and the text structure of written language).
Click here for assessment website.
Click here for TEWL-2 assessment review by CREDO (2007).
Click here for TEWL-2 assessment review by Hayward et al (2008).
Second assessment
The Writing Roadmap
Source: Writing Roadmap by CTB/McGraw-Hill website: Http://www.ctb.com/ctb.com/control/productfamilyviewaction?productfamilyid=459&p=products
The Writing Roadmap is a program focused on writing skills for grades 3 and above, and it provides training and practicing tools for students as well as assessments for teachers, all available online. The assessment evaluates writing prompts and reading passages in seven styles of writing: narrative, informative/expository, descriptive, persuasive, opinion, argumentative, and informative/explanatory
The program provides varied types of report, which can help educators better understand a student’s progress and areas of improvement. There isn’t a set time duration for the assessment, since it will depend on how many and which tests will be administered. The scoring is done through an algorithm and its validation was studied and reported on a West Virginia validation study report with human raters versus the algorithm, suggesting that there is a “very good” agreement between the scores provided by the machine and the ones provided by the human rater.
Click here for assessment website.
Click here for the assessment’s Validation Report.
Click here for the assessment's informational brochure.