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=Grade 8 Writing Assessment= Page Content

Description
The writing assessment for grade eight consists of an evaluation of each student response to an assigned prompt. Students are assigned a topic from a prompt bank representing two genres: expository and persuasive. Students are allowed 100 minutes to write their essays. The writing assessment must be administered in one day. A make-up is also given the following day.

Types of Writing
The Georgia Grade 8 Writing Assessment is a test of expository and persuasive writing. Students will be given either an expository or persuasive writing topic. Because topics will be spiraled, students may receive any one of the two writing topics thus requiring them to be prepared to write in expository or persuasive genres. Topics will be released after each test administration and will become part of the practice topic bank. Download topics and samples. .

Analytic and Holistic Scoring
The scoring system is analytic. Analytic scoring means that more than one feature or domain of a paper is evaluated. Each domain itself is scored holistically. The score assigned indicates the test raters’ overall impression of the writer’s command of the components, using predetermined scoring criteria contained in the Scoring Rubrics. Accurate scoring requires balancing a writer’s strengths and areas of challenge.

Student writing will be assessed analytically in four domains: Ideas, Organization, Style, and Conventions. Analytic scoring will provide detailed information on student writing including scale scores and performance levels. The Grade 8 Writing Assessment will also be linked to a common reporting scale allowing for greater capability to compare scores over time. Download the rubric.

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