This article provides information on how to generate and interact with eWrite reports. The following topics are covered here:
Related article: Using your eWrite results
Generating reports
Follow the steps below to generate an eWrite report:
- From the Students page of your account, select your required students
- individually, or
- filtering your list by tagged group or year level
- Click Generate report
- Select eWrite
- Select Group report
- Click Generate report and View report
Click a student's name to view their individual report with additional score information and their written response:
Interpreting reports
For each eWrite task, reports provide the following information:
- a raw score (a total of the individual criteria scores)
- an eWrite scale score
- an achievement band
- a breakdown of scores for each assessment criterion
eWrite scale scores are estimates of student ability, as measured by the assessment. The scale scores from eWrite can be used to make direct comparisons between eWrite tasks, which means they can be used to track student progress in writing over time. When comparing scale scores, it should always be borne in mind that every test score has some degree of measurement error. This means that two scores that are close together may not indicate a significant difference.
The individual criterion scores can be used to gauge specific strengths or weaknesses in sub-skills of writing, such as sentence punctuation. These scores in particular can be used as the basis for teachers to provide detailed feedback to students about what they did well in their writing, and what their next steps ought to be in order to improve.
The eWrite scale is divided into bands that cover the range of student writing achievement from year 5 to year 8, as it relates to this assessment. The eWrite scale is divided into seven bands (Band 3 or below to Band 9 or above). The bands were established using student distribution data from the trial phase and the relative difficulty of the categories on the marking guide. They provide a way to aggregate and summarise the performance of a group of students on eWrite assessments.
Unscoreable responses
Occasionally, students’ writing is unable to be scored by the automated marking system. These errors are uncommon, and most often occur when the student is not properly engaged with the task, the response is below the minimum length to be scored, or when the student has not responded directly to the provided prompt.
The criteria scores for unscoreable responses will appear blank within the online reports, with an explanation of the cause of the error displayed, for example 'No score (syntax)'.
Writing with the following features may not be scoreable:
- Off-topic: essay does not contain a minimum number of words from the topic-specific lexicon developed by the computer during creation of the scoring model.
Report error code: No score (relevance) - Too short: fewer than 50 words or 3 sentences.
Report error code: No score (length) - Insufficiently developed: 50 to 100 words with insufficient on-topic vocabulary.
Report error code: No score (length) - Major syntax errors: insufficient sentence punctuation, or too many run-on sentences, or syntax errors which prevent understanding.
Report error code: No score (syntax) - Repetitious: text or sentence structure is repeated.
Report error code: No score (repetition) - Too many unknown words: spelling is overwhelmingly poor, or essay is written in a foreign language.
Report error code: No score (vocabulary)