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Language Testing in Asia

Table 2 Descriptive writing tasks: descriptive statistics

From: Differential impacts of e-portfolio assessment on language learners’ engagement modes and genre-based writing improvement

Task Statistics Higher-level skills Lower-level skills Total
Organization Development Sentence structure Word choice and grammar Mechanics  
1 Mean
Std. deviation 		7.10
.89 		6.18
.59 		17.94
1.10 		20.97
1.10 		13.07
.40 		14.46
.87
2 Mean
Std. deviation 		7.04
1.94 		6.64
.53 		17.50
.90 		18.00
.90 		9.09
.42 		11.65
.76
3 Mean
Std. deviation 		5.01
.91 		4.81
.60 		14.09
1.96 		16.09
.88 		6.70
1.54 		9.34
1.03
4 Mean
Std. deviation 		4.90
1.50 		4.67
.54 		12.32
.98 		15.32
.90 		6.30
.44 		8.70
.82
5 Mean
Std. deviation 		4.87
1.20 		4.09
.42 		8.80
1.53 		10.72
.44 		4.70
.52 		6.63
.69
6 Mean
Std. deviation 		4.81
1.42 		4.83
.43 		8.20
1.40 		9.11
.70 		4.20
.90 		6.23
.94
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