| Publication type: | Book part |
| Type of review: | Editorial review |
| Title: | Assessing writing in vocational education and training schools : results from an intervention study |
| Authors: | Konstantinidou, Triantafyllia Liana Hoefele, Joachim Kruse, Otto |
| DOI: | 10.3726/978-3-653-06614-2 |
| Published in: | Developing and assessing academic and professional writing skills |
| Editors of the parent work: | Göpferich, Susanne Neumann, Imke |
| Page(s): | 73 |
| Pages to: | 102 |
| Issue Date: | 2016 |
| Series: | Forum Angewandte Linguistik |
| Series volume: | 56 |
| Publisher / Ed. Institution: | Peter Lang |
| Publisher / Ed. Institution: | Frankfurt am Main |
| ISBN: | 978-3-653-96048-8 978-3-631-67362-1 |
| Language: | English |
| Subjects: | Schreibkompetenz; Berufsbildung; Schreibtest; DaZ; Academic writing; Evaluation; Ability testing; VET |
| Subject (DDC): | 378: Higher education 808: Rhetoric and writing |
| Abstract: | In this paper, we describe the assessment of writing in vocational education and training (VET) schools within the scope of an intervention study carried out in the German-speaking part of Switzerland. In literacy education within VET schools, the diversity of students’ linguistic backgrounds is not sufficiently taken into consideration. To address this lack, a teaching approach based on process oriented writing instruction incorporating both German as L1 and German as L2 approaches was developed and evaluated. The paper focuses on the instruments used for the assessment of students’ writing competence at three stages and describes the writing test as well as the scoring procedures applied. Reflections on the quality of the writing competence scale (Cronbach’s alpha: .82–.85) and some of the main results showing a significant increase in writing competence in the experimental group compared to the control group are presented alongside a discussion of the potential value of our assessment procedures. |
| URI: | https://digitalcollection.zhaw.ch/handle/11475/8454 |
| Fulltext version: | Published version |
| License (according to publishing contract): | Licence according to publishing contract |
| Departement: | Applied Linguistics |
| Organisational Unit: | Institute of Language Competence (ILC) |
| Appears in collections: | Publikationen Angewandte Linguistik |
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