The study evaluated the reliability and validity of the Writing Assessment Measure (WAM),
developed to reflect the skills which children of different abilities are expected to achieve in …

The assessment of children's writing raises technical and practical challenges. In this paper
we examine the potential use of a curriculum based measure for writing (CBM‐W) to assess …

Despite the growing body of research on writing assessment, little attention has been
devoted to developing and validating measures for beginning writers. This study examined …

Standardised tasks and a repeat design were used to investigate development in narrative
writing by 112 primary schoolchildren. The scripts comprised the NFER Literacy Impact …

Writing is a complex process, and this complexity poses particular challenges when
researchers and teachers approach the task of analysing young students' writing samples …

This report illustrates techniques for establishing the reliability and validity of assessments of
student writing. Raters scored collections of elementary students' narrative writing with the …

Abstract Language-based writing assessments that inform both instruction/intervention and
research are the focus of this chapter. For both purposes, children and adolescents are …

We examined how raters and tasks influence measurement error in writing evaluation and
how many raters and tasks are needed to reach a desirable level of. 90 and. 80 reliabilities …

The purpose of this study was to determine whether technically adequate curriculum-based
measures of writing could be identified for use with high school students. The participants …

During the past decade, writing assessment programs have mushroomed at American
colleges and universities. Faced with legislative mandates to certify and to credential …