Table 2 Descriptive writing tasks: descriptive statistics
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 |