REAL TESTS, REAL RESULTS!
When giving a progress-monitoring writing assessment, what should happen after the class
has a five-minute discussion on the topic students will be writing about? - Answer: allow
20-30 minutes for students to write
Which teacher action will not ensure student success in writing? - Answer: provide explicit
instruction in decoding skills
What is the recommended way to capture and assess students' ideas if they are in the
prealphabetic phase? - Answer: Have students orally describe their ideas while the teacher
records it in writing.
When grading compositions, which measure has the weakest correlation with the overall
quality of the writing? - Answer: average sentence length (ASL)
*this was marked wrong but it should be marked right
Which statement is false? - Answer: Writing is usually assessed similarly to multiple-
choice grading systems.
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