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Levels-based assessment of writing: Scoring guides from the Assessment Resource Banks

Cedric Croft, Sue McDowall, and Gareth Rapson
Abstract: 

Two strengths of the ARBs are their links to national curriculum statements and the range and control they give teachers and schools over what is to be assessed. They include a set of 96 writing resources for English, covering poetic and transactional writing. In view of positive feedback from ARB users, it has become apparent that schools can use the scoring guides when there is a need to make levels-based assessment of their own poetic and/or transactional writing tasks.

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