Assessment gives students the clue of what they know and what they don't know so that they can check their learning. And, of course, writing assessing is necessary to enhance students' writing skills. "The goal of writing assessment is to help children become better writers" (Tomkins, 2008, p. 74). And Brown states that "In your evaluation of student writing the most instructive evaluative feedback you can give is your comments, both specific and summative, regarding the student's work" (Brown, 2007, p. 414) The efficient and effective feedback should provide students with specific information that students need to enhace their writing skill.
There are many kinds of writing evaluation. Among them Portfolio Assessment is a very good way to reflect their writings. "Reflection is an important component of portfolio assessment because it rewuires children to pause and become aware of themselves as writers (Tompkins, 2008. p. 91)
Response to Kyoungchun Kim
According to Kyoungchun Kim, "Among various forms of writing assessment, the most impressive one to me is portfolio because teachers can apparently examine writing process and writing product after finishing writing. Also portfolio is more realistic than any other writing assessment form." As I said above I absoliutely agree with him. Portfolio assessment is the best way for teachers to check the process of writing, and give them effective feedback.
References
Brown H. Douglas. (2006). Teaching by Principles: An Interactive Approach to Language Pedagogy (3rd ed.). White Plains, NY : Longman.
Tompkins, Gail E. (2008). Teaching Writing : Balancing Process and Product. Upper Saddle River, NJ : Pearson.
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