Assessment Score For Writing
Assessment Score For Writing
E ACHIEVEMENT
5 All content is relevant Produces a text Uses simple Uses basic vocabulary
to the task. Target that connectors and a appropriately.
reader is communicates limited number
fully informed. straightforward of cohesive Uses simple
ideas using the devices grammatical forms
conventions of appropriately. with a good degree of
the control.
communicative
task reasonably While errors are
appropriately. noticeable, meaning
can still be determined.
4 Performance shares features of Scores 3 and 5
3 Minor irrelevances Produces a text Text is connected Uses basic
and/or omissions may that using basic, high vocabulary
be present. Target communicates frequency reasonably.
reader is on the whole simple ideas in connectors. Uses simple
informed. simple ways. grammatical forms
with some degree
of control.
Errors may impede
meaning at times
2 Performance shares features of Scores 1 and 3
1 Irrelevances and/or Produces isolated Production Produces basic
misinterpretation of short units about unlikely to be vocabulary of isolated
the task may be simple and connected, words and phrases.
present. Target reader concrete matters, though Produces few simple
is minimally informed. not always punctuation and grammatical forms with
communicating simple only limited control.
successfully. connectors (e.g.
and) may be used
on occasion.
0 Content is totally
irrelevant. Target Performance below Score 1
reader is not
informed.
SPM 1119/2 PART 1 ASSESSMENT SCALE
1
SPM 1119/2 PART 2 ASSESSMENT SCALE
Target reader is
minimally informed.
Errors may
impede meaning
at times.
0 Content is totally
irrelevant. Target Performance below Score 1
reader is not
informed.
2
SPM 1119/2 PART 3 ASSESSMENT SCALE
Occasional errors
and slips may be
present.
4 Performance shares features of Scores 3 and 5
3 Minor irrelevances Uses the Text is generally Uses a range of
and/or omissions conventions of the well-organised everyday vocabulary
may be present. communicative and coherent, with occasional
Target reader is on task to hold the using a variety of inappropriate use of
the whole informed. reader’s attention cohesive devices. less common lexis.
and communicate
straightforward Uses a range of simple
ideas appropriately and some complex
grammatical forms
with a good degree of
control.
3
informed.