Writing Links

CAHSEE

http://www.cde.ca.gov/statetests/cahsee/resources/elatg/2002ela.html

Released test 2002

http://www.cde.ca.gov/statetests/cahsee/resources/released/ela02.pdf

Released test 2001

http://www.cde.ca.gov/statetests/cahsee/resources/released/ela.pdf

Great State Websites for State-wide Writing Assessment. @ Oregon you can actually practice scoring online (unless they pulled the plug for outsiders)

Oregon State Scoring Site: a site for teachers to practice and norm their assessment skills:

http://www.open.k12.or.us/scoring/

[you might have to go to http://www.open.k12.or.us first and then click on the scoring link.]

Tennessee State Writing assessment ñ note that their idea of a 6 on a scale of 6 is not one I share; theyíre a bit too easy for that top score: lots of stuff including anchor papers, rubrics and more ñ 4^th, 7^th and 11^th grade

http://www.state.tn.us/education/tswriting.htm

Prentice-Hall: 9^th grade rubrics and scored models for

 Narrative, Descriptive, Expository, Persuasive, and Response to Literature

http://www.phschool.com/atschool/writing_grammar/gold/scored_model_essays

University of California Subject A Exam: 11^th and 12^th grade info prompts and samples of the UC writing exam

http://www.ucop.edu/sas/sub-a/

A great source for stuff to help you teach all kinds of writing including informal, argumentative, source based (research) and others avec writing process a la NWP

http://www.powa.org/

5 paragraph Essay ñ great site especially vis a vis the CHSEE scored essays: the rigid 5 P essays that are clean get the highest scores. A good place to start. I prefer not to use a number : I call it the multi paragraph essay and mention that 2 or more body paragraphs does the trick. [WARNING: this site loads slllllllllllooooooooooooooowwwllyyyyyyyyy]

http://www.geocities.com/SoHo/Atrium/1437

Six-Trait Writing Assessment Links: another way to look at writing assessment. An alternative to Holistic scoring.

http://www.nwrel.org/assessment/index.asp

http://grant.d20.co.edu/grant/6traits/resources.html

CSU English Placement test: Reading and Writing with answers and scored essays

http://www.calstate.edu/AR/EPT.PDF

CSU San Joseís Graduation Writing Test: for AP and extraordinarily precocious students:

http://www.sjsu.edu/depts/Testing/wst.html

More than you ever wanted to know about assessment in general:

http://www.aahe.org/assessment/web.htm

University Level entrance Writing Tests: models, commentary

http://www.essayeval.org:84/EDIT/samples/EPT/sample_ept.shtml