A Study of Students' Assessment in Writing Skills of the English Language

Autor/inn/en	Javed, Muhammad; Juan, Wu Xiao; Nazli, Saima
Titel	A Study of Students' Assessment in Writing Skills of the English Language
Quelle	In: International Journal of Instruction, 6 (2013) 2, S.129-144 (16 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1694-609X
Schlagwörter	Foreign Countries; Secondary Schools; Secondary School Students; Writing Skills; Writing Achievement; Syntax; Competence; Achievement Tests; Communication Skills; Rural Schools; Urban Schools; Achievement Gap; English (Second Language); Grade 10; Pakistan + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Ausland; Sekundarschule; Sekundarschüler; Writing skill; Schreibfertigkeit; Kompetenz; Achievement test; Achievement; Testing; Test; Tests; Leistungsbeurteilung; Leistungsüberprüfung; Leistung; Testdurchführung; Testen; Kommunikationsstil; Rural area; Rural areas; School; Schools; Ländlicher Raum; Schule; Schulen; Urban area; Urban areas; Stadtregion; Stadt; English as second language; English; Second Language; Englisch als Zweitsprache
Abstract	This paper addresses to evaluate and assess the students' competency in writing skills at Secondary school level in the English Language focusing five major content areas: word completion, sentence making/syntax, comprehension, tenses/grammar and handwriting. The target population was the male and female students of grade 10 of urban and rural Secondary schools from public and private sector. Forty (40) Secondary schools of District Bahawalnagar, Pakistan were taken using stratified sampling. A sample consisting of 440 students (11 students from each school) was randomly selected using a table of random numbers. An achievement test consisting of different items was developed to assess the students' competency and capability in sub-skills of writing such as word completion, sentence making/syntax, comprehension, tenses/grammar and handwriting. Mean score and standard deviation were used to analyze the students' proficiency in each sub-skill. The t-test was applied to make the comparison on the bases of gender, density and public and private sector. The overall performance of all the students was better in comprehension as compared to other sub-skills namely word completion, sentence making/syntax, tenses/grammar and handwriting. The analysis, based on t-value, revealed no significant difference between the performance of male and female students and the students of public and private schools, whereas there was a significant difference between the performance of urban and rural students. (As Provided).
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Update	2020/1/01