Piercy, William;
Dockrell, Julie;
(2023)
Assessing children’s writing products using curriculum-based measures of writing (CBM-W).
Educational and Child Psychology
, 40
(1)
pp. 44-60.
10.53841/bpsecp.2023.40.1.44.
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Abstract
AIM: Writing is key to academic success and job opportunities later in life. Nevertheless, every year children leave primary school struggling to write and few assessments enable schools to reliably identify and target weaknesses in children’s writing. This study explored curriculum-based measures of writing (CBM-W) for assessing writing in primary schools in the United Kingdom (UK). METHOD: Twenty-seven children from a Year Five class in an English primary school responded to a narrative prompt administered for five minutes once a fortnight for a 10-week period. Children completed a standardised assessment of writing quality (the WIAT) prior to the first CBM-W assessment. CBM-W measures included number of words written (WW), words spelled correctly (WSC), correct word sequences (CWS; any two adjacent words used correctly in context) and correct minus incorrect word sequences (C-IWS). FINDING: All four CBM-W measures demonstrated concurrent validity in relation to the WIAT and captured significant differences in writing performance between children with and without a SEN. Measures also captured pupil growth, demonstrating the utility of CBM-W both as a tool for screening and progress monitoring. LIMITATIONS: The small sample placed limits on the generalisability of findings. Additionally, piloting the equivalence of the writing prompts used in this study may have reduced the risk of measurement error. CONCLUSION: Findings demonstrate the technical adequacy of CBM-W and promising evidence of its potential use by teachers, SENCOs and EPs to assess the writing of primary school children in the UK.
| Type: | Article |
|---|---|
| Title: | Assessing children’s writing products using curriculum-based measures of writing (CBM-W) |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.53841/bpsecp.2023.40.1.44 |
| Publisher version: | https://doi.org/10.53841/bpsecp.2023.40.1.44 |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | This version is the author accepted manuscript. For information on re-use, please refer to the publisher's terms and conditions. |
| Keywords: | Curriculum-based measures of writing, CBM-W, Writing assessment, Primary school, Progress monitoring |
| UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Education UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Education > UCL Institute of Education UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Education > UCL Institute of Education > IOE - Psychology and Human Development |
| URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10167828 |
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