Developing a common scale for the assessment of writing

By R. Hawkey, F. Barker. 2004

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Investigating Criterial Discourse Features across Second Language Development: Lexical Bundles in Rated Learner Essays, CEFR B1, B2 and C1 (2014, background): “For instance, with the aim of developing a common scale for the assessment of writing in the Cambridge Main Suite, Hawkey and Barker (2004) describe in detail how they adopted intuitive, qualitative, and quantitative methods and grouped their findings into versatile distinguishing features. The feat”
Limitations of the Common European Framework for developing comparable examinations and tests (2005, background): “Hawkey and Barker (2004) – reporting on the work of Cambridge ESOL in developing a common scale for writing to be used across the levels in its main suite examinations – note that it was necessary to draw upon corpus analysis to identify features of texts that helped discriminate between candidates…”
Diagnostic Writing Assessment: The Development and Validation of a Rating Scale (2009, methodology): “A number of test designers (e.g. Clarkson & Jensen, 1995; Connor & Mbaye, 2002; Council of Europe, 2001; Grierson, 1995; Hawkey, 2001; Hawkey & Barker, 2004; McKay, 1995; Milanovic, Saville, Pollitt, & Cook, 1995) have chosen to base their rating scales on Canale and Swain’s (1983; 1980), Bachman’s…”