Assessment of the Analytic Scale of Argumentative Writing (ASAW)

The Analytic Scale of Argumentative Writing (ASAW) was developed because the need for a genre-specific scale to assess English as Second Language (ESL) university student writers’ argumentative essays. present study reports findings field-testing ASAW. For this purpose, samples (n = 110) were collected and remote-scored by experienced raters 5) who used Overall, moderate high inter-rater reliability (r 0.7-0.9), well 0.84-0.92) 0.70-0.77) intra-rater coefficients after short (6-week) long (9-week) rating intervals obtained, respectively. Some established instruments score same essays rated using ASAW test concurrent validity scale. scores assigned demonstrated 0.51) 0.77) correlations with awarded several other standard instruments. given questionnaire evaluate itself, on average, results indicated that highly satisfied it. It took an average 5.5 minutes essay, indicating it economical. has useful implications refinement development validation similar scales benchmarks in future.