Pembinaan skema pemarkahan holistik berfokus bagi menggredkan karangan pemujukan

Abstract

In line with the infusion of communicative ideas in the Malay language educational curricula, an instrument to measure the language proficiency based on the communicative criteria is sorely needed in school based assessment for e.g. in the writing skills. For this purpose, this article reports the development of a focused holistic scoring scheme communicative scheme to grade the writing performance of persuasive essays according to achievement categories. The development of the instrument is based on the communicative ideas, which states that composing is a language performance through the interaction of three components, i.e. sociolinguistics, discourse and grammar. As a performance, assessment is conducted holistically that viewed essays as an entity. One hundred and eleven sample essays graded by specially trained raters are used to validate the instrument. The research findings show that the reliability of the instrument is high ( 0. 93 ), besides having criterion validity, i.e. with a correlation coefficient of more than 0.80 through concurrent validation with instruments presently employed in Malaysia and internationally.