This article provides information on how to choose eWrite tasks for your students. The following topics are covered:
Tasks and text types
eWrite provides writing topics for the following text types:
| Narrative | Description | Report | Persuasive |
|---|---|---|---|
| Task B (years 5–8) Task H (years 4–8) |
Task D (years 5–8) | Task C (years 5–8) | Task A (years 5–6) Task E (years 7–8) Task F (years 5–10) Task G (years 5–9) |
Our general recommendations are listed in the table above and can also be found when assigning the tasks to students.
The suggested year levels for the tasks are based on two pieces of information. Firstly, some prompts may not be easily accessible to younger students, while others may limit the ideas that older students are capable of generating. The suggested year levels are guides to the maturity of thought necessary for creating responses to the prompt. Secondly, the trial populations from which the scoring algorithms were developed differed slightly, and the suggested guidelines reflect the majority of students in the trial samples. There is a chance that using the prompts with students outside the suggested year levels may, potentially, affect the accuracy of the scoring, so it is better to be cautious when using the prompts with students older or younger than the suggested guidelines.
Previewing the tasks
All staff members may preview test forms for purchased assessments.
We encourage all teachers to preview the tasks to understand the content to help inform decisions about which task will be appropriate for students.
To preview tests, follow the steps below:
- Click Students
- Click 'Tests' menu
- Select 'Preview'
Purchased assessments will be listed in the drop-down menu.
These test previews appear exactly as they do for students when they are completing the tests.