eWrite can be used to assess students at any time of the year, but repeated use of the same writing prompt with the same students within a single school year is not recommended.
All eWrite prompts have been placed on a common measurement scale. This allows for different ways of using eWrite to investigate students’ growth in writing.
The following are two possible approaches:
- Pairs of writing prompts of the same genre can be used at the beginning and end of a unit of work focusing on writing, to investigate how students’ writing ability has developed, or
- an eWrite prompt of any genre could be administered to a class (or cohort), with different prompts administered annually thereafter, allowing for longitudinal monitoring of student development in writing over time.