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Diagnostic Writing Test

Educational success is seeing tangible change in student results. Our flagship diagnostic writing test gives you detailed writing data insights, whenever you need it.

If we are going to help our students progress effectively—if as a school leader you are going to plan the right sort of intervention to move your school forward—you need to work on sound information. Writing is one of those areas.

Why Diagnostic Testing

Our diagnostic writing test provides school leaders, teachers, and students with the most comprehensive diagnostic writing data presently available.  Not only will you make better decisions, you will be able to accurately report value add—and give your students the best opportunity of educational success.

Our Flagship Testing Product

Our flagship diagnostic writing test is called the Composition Skills Index (CSI).  The Composition Skills Index was developed by Dr Ian Hunter in 2015 in response to schools wanting more accurate and detailed information about the state of their students’ writing performance. 

School leaders expressed frustration that other testing regimes were subject to bias, or merely told schools their students had a writing problem, but never offered guidance on how to remedy those problems.  Or, in the case of senior students, there was no available writing test to guide interventions.  Consequently, schools were relying on examination results, which came too late to alter the outcomes for that student.  

The Composition Skills Index (CSI) has changed all that, and for many schools the CSI Test is now the diagnostic writing test of choice.

How the Test Works

The CSI is an online writing test.  In response to a series of prompts, students plan a piece of writing and then compose over 20 minutes an extended writing sample that is then submitted and marked at Writer’s Toolbox.  Teachers can monitor the progress of their class as students complete the test.  Students undertake the test in a specially-designed interface that does not allow material to be cut-and-pasted, nor has functions like spelling or grammar checkers.  What is on screen will be the student’s original work. 

The test is timed—and once the countdown timer lapses, tests are automatically sent to Writer’s Toolbox for marking.  

That’s right: your teachers don’t have to mark a thing.  Merely wait for the comprehensive report to arrive.

Who Can Sit the Test?

The Composition Skills Index (CSI) test can be undertaken by any student from Year 4 to Year 12 (Year 13 in curriculum systems that extend to Year 13).  The question prompts and language in the test is age-appropriate, so you can be confident your student will be suitably challenged. 

The planning sequence of the test is untimed to allow teachers to extend this portion of the test if required—and students can plan and add notes within the testing environment itself.  If a student cannot do the CSI test on computer because of particular learning requirements, we have pen and paper options available.  An additional fee applies as these scripts are manually typed for detailed analysis.

What the Composition Skills Index Measures

Dr Hunter designed the Composition Skills Index (CSI) to analyse a broader range of writing behaviours and skills than any test has been able to do so to date.  Other writing tests provide information on surface features: word choice, technical errors, grammar, punctuation, spelling, or the choice of simple or complex sentences.  While all this is useful, Dr Hunter could see schools wanted more.  

Accordingly, the advanced methodology applied to the analysis of the Composition Skills Index was purposely designed to remove teacher bias and give schools objective data on the largest set of writing behaviours possible.

What The Composition Skills Index Reports On:

• Ideation and generative capacity
• Student ability to undertake on-demand writing tasks
• Sentence control
• Technical accuracy: grammar, punctuation, incomplete sentences
• Paragraphing control and skill
• Fluency capacity, including sentence range skill
• Stylistic ability
• Incidence of Struggling Writers in your school
• Analytical depth: expansion and development skills
• Presence/absence generalisations
• Coherence and logic ability
• Incidence of repetition
• Incidence of waffle 
• Composition Skills Index (CSI) score

Report to School and Educators

Every one of the above metrics is reported back to your school.  After years of testing and research, at Writer's Toolbox we know the expected ability levels of the above indicators for every year of schooling.  We can tell you if your students are at their expected ability level, above their ability level, or performing below their expected ability level in writing.  Plus, if remedial work is needed, we tell you what to do.  That’s a first.

What Do I Get?

You will get a school level report that provides objective and clear information to school leaders and classroom teachers on every writing metric.  You will see the patterns across your school cohorts, and we will interpret this information for you.  You will receive a detailed profile of every student tested in your school, showing clear areas of strength, and areas for improvement.  

Then based on your school’s data, we give you actionable recommendations to help guide your school’s interventions and writing improvement strategies.  Because the reason we do all of this—every day—is to see better educational outcomes for our students: richer data, more targeted interventions, better educational outcomes.

Measuring School Progress

The ultimate score a student receives is called their Composition Skills Index Score.  This number is a single number between 0 and 10 to represent the student’s overall writing ability.  All CSI metrics are helpful for guiding teacher practice, and over time, revealing value add.  And vitally, the CSI score gives school leaders immediate visibility of school capability and progress.  

Ideally, CSI scores in a school should reveal a traditional bell curve (indicated in the graph below), with around ten per cent of students in the top end and ten per cent in the lower end.  Many of our schools undertake comparative testing using the CSI Test.  When retesting similar cohorts at a later date, movement of CSI scores towards a traditional bell curve is an indicator your school’s writing interventions are working.  CSI score is a powerful indicator of change.

Get in Touch

You can undertake a Composition Skills Index (CSI) Test at any time.  Within four weeks of your students undertaking a test, you’ll have the results—and the all-important writing report—on your desk.  And immediately start to make evidence-backed educational decisions to transform writing results in your school.

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Creative Writing Pre-test 11 SHS

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Written in prose format and published as a book and considered to be a long piece of creative fiction that is believed to be possessing, demanding, and complex.

narrative poetry

short story

The following are all basic types of writing except –

documentary

It is a poem that demonstrates grief and melancholy to the dead.

Short poems that are tainted with love, hope, joy, grief, sadness, or sorrow as common themes

A stanza with five lines is called

A poem that provides an amusing and a happy ending.

It employs contradictory statements or situations to show reality dissimilar from truth.

________________ is the central idea or concept of the storyline

falling action

Exposes a topic analytically and objectively, like a news report.

Expository writing

Expressive writing

Creative writing

Persuasive writing

“The Witch” by -

Layeta P. Bucoy

Edilberto K. Tiempo

Jessica Hagerdorn

Miguel Syjuco

This brings the readers as where the story happens which is illustrated through scenery, landscape, building, weather, or even season.

Plays, short stories, plays, and novels are under

An element of a story that leads the central conflict by building a series of events in the character’s life.

protagonist

Refers to a segment/part of something that is replaced to represent in for a whole or vice versa.

Neither a plot nor a full narrative description, but a carefully crafted verbal sketch that might be part of some larger work, or a complete description in itself.

Uses contradictory statements but in a closer examination turns out to make sense

The pattern in which end rhyme occurs

onomatopoeia

alliteration

rhyme scheme

The Wicked Witch of the West went her own way. This is an example of -

Faith is like a stony uphill climb: a single stumble might send you sprawling but belief and steadfastness will see you to the very top. What literary device is used in the given sentence?

personification

Give the rhyme scheme of the given lines.

Continuous as the stars that shine

And twinkle on the milky way,

They stretched in never-ending line

Along the margin of a bay:

Ten thousand saw I at a glance,

Tossing their heads in sprightly dance.

What is imagery?

the use of language appealing to one or more of the five senses

It's nothing, you just made it up

a group of words established by usage as having a meaning not deducible from those of the individual words.

a literary practice wherein the writer embellishes the sentence by adding more information to it in order to increase its worth and understandability

This refers to the use of the dictionary definition or literal meaning of a word.

connotation

When we use the name “Washington D.C” we are talking about the U.S’ political hot seat by referring to the political capital of the United States because all the significant political institutions such as the White House, Supreme Court, the U.S. Capitol and many more are located her. The phrase “Washington D.C.” is ________________ for the government of the U.S. in this case.

“A long song” is an example of

"They ate food." Is this an example of imagery?

neither way

both a and b

Sheanne tried hard to convince herself that her Hollywood dreams were worth the struggle but her parents, and her inner voice of reason, failed to agree.

“We were the first that ever burst”, a line taken from the poem Ancient Mariner, is considered to be an example of

internal rhyme

external rhyme

The thunder clapped loudly shaking the house . What type of imagery is present in this given line?

It is a literary device wherein the author uses specific words and phrases that exaggerate and overemphasize the basic crux of the statement in order to produce a grander, more noticeable effect.

The manner in which a story is narrated or depicted and who it is that tells the story is called

point of view

Prose takes its form in a metered style and uses rhyme than natural speech.

“The Witch” is a short story which is considered to be shorter than a novel.

A character in a short story can either be a person or an animal taking the action of the story.

Absurd play combines dialogues, songs, and dance numbers and accredited to Broadway for blending vaudeville, revue, melodrama, as well as operetta in its presentation.

Conflict is called the central idea or concept of the storyline.

There is usually a pattern, unintended or intentional, that threads the plot together

“I'm not feeling bad” is an example of litotes.

In literature, the word ‘setting’ is used to identify and establish the time, place and mood of the events of the story.

The rhyme scheme is the practice of rhyming words placed at the end of the lines in a prose or poetry.

Films can be taken from the written word of a large work such as novels and autobiography.

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The paper diagnostic tests are designed for students who know how to read. The test proctor scores the tests, evaluates the results, and correlates skills with the scope and sequence for accurate placement in the curriculum. Proper academic diagnosis and prescription is vital to a student’s success and cannot be emphasized too much. If weak areas are evident from the testing session, appropriate “gap” PACEs must be prescribed to strengthen specific skills. This test covers Social Studies, Science, Bible Reading, and Literature and Creative Writing. (3rd Edition)

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