Assessing To The Students Writing.

This is assessing, responding and learning process.

Assessing and responding to the students essay is a way to learn for both students and teachers. 

    In the situation of teachers assessing or responding to students’ essay, students could learn how to improve themselves in their writing. While for the teachers, they will be able to know their students weak point and most important it’ll make teacher THINK and use (apply) their knowledge in teaching.  For this task, we were given an essay written by students. Our lecturer asked us to asses or marking for the essay. This is a group work, so I have a discussion before decided to give mark for the essay.

The moment I do this task, I actually have not got the essay’s picture. So I just make use of what I have with me. The picture below shows the marking scheme that we refer before giving marks. The marking process started with reading through the essay. After that we marks in every mistakes or error in that essay.Then, we refer to the marking scheme to get the classification or level of the essay.

Focusing on the essay, we think that it is well planned because we can see the plot or flow of the essay. Although it was understandable, there are problems in the grammar aspect. After a discussion and an analysis we decided to give this essay 12marks out of 20marks. The reason why we gave 12marks are:

The marking scheme as a guideline in assessing essays. 

1) The student shows an understanding of writing and topic development.
- The student understand what he/her trying to write.

2) There are Mechanical errors in his/her essay that affect communication. For example, in the area of spelling and punctuation.
Spelling - 'want' to 'went'
Punctuation- Overuse of full-stop.

So, we gave this student a pass!