The REEP Pre and Post Writing Assessment (RWA)

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The REEP Pre and Post Writing Assessment (RWA) Suzanne Grant Director Arlington Education and Employment Program (REEP) Arlington Public Schools, Arlington, Virginia

REEP PRE AND POST WRITING ASSESSMENT Performance-based writing test Measure writing gains for adult ESOL learners (SPL 2+/NRS Beginning ESL+) Consists of: REEP Writing Rubric (6 levels of performance measured against 5 dimensions: Content & Vocabulary, Development & Organization, Structure, Mechanics, Voice) Performance Tasks/Prompts, including warm-up activities. Scored using the Rubric. Two forms of the test.

REEP Arlington Education and Employment Program Adult ESOL Program Target population: adult immigrants and refugees who live and work in Arlington Nine levels of instruction Provide 9,000 class slots per year in: Intensive ESOL Non-intensive ESOL Family English Workplace Literacy

The Journey 1995: Virginia Alternative Assessment Grant: Need to improve placement of students into 9 levels Development of REEP Writing Rubric and placement test prompt 1997-2002: What Works Literacy Partnership Purpose: to determine the effectiveness of the REEP Writing Rubric to measure writing Research and Development of: timed pre and post-test prompts warm-up activities standardized test administration procedures and training standardized scoring procedures and training

Research Results A carefully designed and validated instrument with sufficiently high reliability. Gains can be effectively and reliably measured within a 12-week period of 100 hours. Scoring and training procedures lead to high interrater reliability. Forms A and B are equivalent.

Further studies 2002: CASAS Study: Comparing REEP Rubric with CASAS Writing Rubric Strong evidence for the validity of both instruments and that based on the observed correlations, the two assessments are interchangeable. 2002-present: Commonwealth of Massachusetts, Department of Education: Adoption of RWA for adult ESOL programs effectiveness of the instrument in a variety of program settings additional prompt development July 2003- Virginia adopts RWA for adult ESOL programs

Lessons Learned AND Home-grown performance-based assessment can: be an effective instrument for measuring learner gains AND lead to positive changes within a program Staff Development Program Improvement Students’ Attitude