6 Assessing productive and interactive skills Personal refl ection

 
Assessing productive and interactive skills 
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in which panellists are given feedback on how far their decisions agree 
with those of other panellists. Statistical tools such as 
logistic regression
may then be used to identify cut scores that most effi ciently classify the 
assessees into competent and non-competent groups. Multiple cut scores 
can be set in the same way to represent different levels of profi ciency.
Task 6.6
Here are two writing tasks taken from international tests of English. Review 
them using the box ‘Guidelines for preparing tasks: productive skills’ above.
What knowledge, skills or abilities are tested by each task?