Assessing students’ writing

This time, I was marking this essay with my other group members and we decided to give the students 10/20. We give the students that marks because the essay have a correct flow and quite good. Furthermore, the students show some understanding of the topic that he or she writes. Although the students used appropriate language but there are still noticeable accuracies in the essay especially the using of grammar and the spelling errors. Moreover, the students did not use capital letter after full stop.

So, here are some of the ways to comment students’ writing and criteria for assessing students’ writing that Miss Yoon has taught us.

Some ways to comment students’ writing:

1.      Try not to mark all error.

2.      Examine errors and determine the causes of error.

3.      Use symbol to indicate the error.

4.      Use positive comments.

5.      Choose any sentences for students to correct.

6.      Provide reason for editing.

7.      Ask the students questions.

In order to access the students’ writing we have to determine types of the text, the essay genre and the amount of time allowed for each writing task of output. Besides that, we also have to take consideration on the assessment criteria such as:-

1.      Relevance and adequacy of content

2.      Organization

3.      Adequacy of vocabulary for purposes

4.      Grammar

5.      Punctuation

6.      Spelling

7.      Appropriateness of language to context, function and intention appropriateness of layout.