Writing Performance Measure

A Writing Performance Measure is an linguistic measure for a writing task.

• Context:
  • Measure Output: a Writing Score (for a writing act).
• Example(s):
  • how well can a person write the alphabet in lower-case.
  • …
• Counter-Example(s):
  • a Reading Comprehension Measure.
  • a Speaking Evaluation Measure.
• See: Writing Act, BLEU Measure.

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References

2006

• (Warschauer & Ware, 2006) ⇒ Mark Warschauer, and Paige Ware. (2006). “Automated Writing Evaluation: Defining the classroom research agenda." Language Teaching Research, 10(2).

2002

• (Hughes, 2002) ⇒ Arthur Hughes. (2002). “Testing for Language Teachers. 2nd edition". Cambridge University Press.

1985

• (White, 1985) ⇒ Edward M. White. (1985). “Teaching and Assessing Writing: Recent Advances in Understanding, Evaluating, and Improving Student Performance." Jossey-Bass Publishers.

1966

• (Godshalk et al., 1966) ⇒ Fred I. Godshalk, Frances Swineford, and William E. Coffman. (1966). “The Measurement of Writing Ability.” In: Psychology in the Schools, 4(1).

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