Genres of high-stakes writing assessments and the construct of writing competence

Assessing Writing

Volumn 12, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 60-79

  Beck, Sarah W ^a   Jeffery, Jill V ^a  

^a NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Delta procedure; Genre analysis; High school; High stakes; Writing assessment; Writing competence

Indexed keywords

EID: 34447123800     PISSN: 10752935     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.asw.2007.05.001     Document Type: Article

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