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Toofan, Zohreh Zare; Maghsoudi, Mojtaba; Madani, Davood – English Language Teaching, 2014
Writing is an important experience through which we are able to share ideas, arouse feelings, persuade and convince other people (White & Arndt, 1991). It is important to view writing not solely as the product of an individual, but as a cognitive, social and cultural act. Writing is an act that takes place within a context, that accomplishes a…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Writing Evaluation, Self Evaluation (Individuals), Peer Evaluation
Lim, Gad S. – ProQuest LLC, 2009
Performance assessments have become the norm for evaluating language learners' writing abilities in international examinations of English proficiency. Two aspects of these assessments are usually systematically varied: test takers respond to different prompts, and their responses are read by different raters. This raises the possibility of undue…
Descriptors: Performance Based Assessment, Language Tests, Performance Tests, Test Validity