Chapter 10: Assessing Writing | Podcast

Chapter 10: Assessing Writing | Podcast Explore how writing tasks and scoring criteria represent written communication. Connect purpose, audience, genre, rubrics, rater judgment, and the evidence provided by different writing assessment approaches. A chapter companion to Foundations of Language Testing and Assessment: For EFL University Students by Munassir Alhamami (2026). CHAPTER QUESTION How can written language performance be elicited and rated in ways that represent the writing abilities an assessment is intended to measure? FIVE CHAPTER TOPICS 10.1 Defining the Writing Construct 10.2 Designing Writing Prompts and Tasks 10.3 Analytic and Holistic Writing Rubrics 10.4 Rater Judgment, Training, and Moderation 10.5 Process, Portfolio, and Integrated Writing Assessment STUDY FOCUS Review a writing prompt and rubric together. Check whether the criteria reward the intended purpose and audience, and record the support and revision conditions behind the performance. STUDY WITH THE TEXTBOOK Read Chapter 10 on PDF pages 119–130. Pause or replay as needed, explain key terms in your own words, and complete the chapter's Practice and Apply tasks and Short Quiz. Use the textbook's answers to check and refine your reasoning. WHO THIS IS FOR EFL university students, future English teachers, and educators developing their understanding of language testing and assessment. TEXTBOOK AND ATTRIBUTION Foundations of Language Testing and Assessment: For EFL University Students First Edition | Version 1 https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.22901603 Textbook website: https://sites.google.com/view/els4efl... Suggested citation: Alhamami, M. (2026). Foundations of language testing and assessment: For EFL university students (1st ed., Version 1). Zenodo. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.22901603 Original textbook content: © Munassir Alhamami. Licensed under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0), except where otherwise stated. Separately credited third-party material retains its own terms. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/... ADAPTATION NOTE This AI-assisted learning resource was created with NotebookLM from the cited textbook. Use it alongside the textbook for study and review. EXPLORE THE SERIES    / @elsforefl   Subscribe to ELSforEFL for more English language teaching and applied linguistics resources. #LanguageAssessment #LanguageTesting #EFL