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This publication is not copyrighted and may be reproduced. Proper credit for citation purposes should be given in accordance with accepted publishing standards.  \nThe Iowa Department of Education is planning to include a writing skills component in its existing adult basic skills certification program. The Iowa Basic Skills Certification program is designed to award basic skills certificates to adult learners enrolled in Iowa’s community college based adult basic education programs. The CASAS Functional Writing Assessment is being proposed as a key instrument in awarding basic skills certificates in Iowa.  \nThe major purposes of this study were to:  \n• determine the predictability of GED essay writing scores using the CASAS Functional Writing Assessment.  \n• establish concurrent validity between the CASAS Functional Writing Assessment rubric, a relatively new instrument, with an existing and known measure, the essay section of the GED Writing Test. The GED Writing Test is currently widely used and well known in the state of Iowa and nationwide.  \n• validate the inter-rater reliability of the CASAS Functional Writing Assessment rubric across the five scoring categories, as well as the total weighted score.  \n THE CASAS FUNCTIONAL WRITING ASSESSMENT   \nThe CASAS Functional Writing Assessment provides teachers of Adult Basic Education (ABE) and English as a Second Language (ESL) atthe adult basic education or adult secondary level with a means of assessing their students’ writing skills in a functional workplace, employability, and life skills context. Learners may be assessed with any of three 30-minute writing tasks: Form Task, Picture Task, or Process Task. The Picture Task was used in this study. It involves responding to a picture prompt. Writing samples are scored analytically using detailed rubrics and annotated scoring anchors. A scoring service is available that allows programs to use these measures to report standardized results without investing in the staff training process.  \nRubrics are used to interpret scores and to report results to students or others. Performance on single administrations ofthe test or on pre-and post-tests can be compared by looking at individual category ratings and overall scores. Scores can also be used to compare test performance among students. An advantage of analytic scoring is that individual learner test performance from each of the categories in the rubric may be discussed to provide diagnostic information about learners’ strengths and weaknesses in writing. This information also provides specific assistance to instructors to determine the focus of instruction.  \nEach rubric category is weighted. These weighting values were developed by a panel of experts familiar with writing instruction for ABE and adult ESL learners. Score ranges for each level are derived from the weightings for each rubric category. Scores for each category receive a \"weighting\" (content x 5, organization x 3, word choice x 3, grammar and sentence structure x 2, and spelling/capitalization/punctuation x 1) which is then computed for a total weighted score. For example, content is weighted as 5 because it is essential for the  \nCASAS/GED Writing Skills Study – Technical Report 2/2001 1  \ncommunication of ideas in functional writing, while the category of  \nspelling/capitalization/punctuation is weighted as 1. 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