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Composition Test

l.        Introduction

Thesis statement : The composition test has certain advantages  and also disadvantages to measure student’s writing skill

      ll.   Body

A.    Some advantages of composition test to measure student’s writing skill

1.      It requires students to organize their own answer

2.      It motivates students to improve their writing

3.      It much more easier and quicker to prepare the question

B.     Some disadvantages of composition test to measure student’s writing skill

1.      It is unreliable measurement

2.      Students can cover up weakness by avoiding problem

3.      It has much scoring times

     III.   Conclusion

In conclusion, composition test that use by teacher in measure of student’s writing skill has certain strengths and also weaknesses. It will be interested if the teachers combine both of composition and objective test in measure student’s writing skill to reduce the disadvantages above

           

           

Composition Test

            The teachers who want to measure their student’s writing skill by composition test would be focus on student’s writing. Most of language teachers more often give students the composition test than objective test because of some reasons. Yet, all language teachers are surely aware, there has in the past fifty years been much criticism of the conventional composition test on part of measurement of student’s writing skill. The composition test has certain advantages; however, it also has some disadvantages in measure of student’s writing skill.

            The most interest form of measurement student’s writing skill is composition test. It has certain advantages in measure student’s writing skill. First, it requires students to organize their own answer which is expressed in their own words. Thus composition test measures certain writing skill such as skill to organize, relate, and weigh of materials. Second, composition test motivates students to improve their writing; conversely, if the examinations don’t require writing, many students will neglect the development of this skill. Finally, composition test is much easier and quicker to be prepared than objective test, an important advantage to the busy classroom teacher.

            Moreover, composition test not only has certain advantages, but also it has some disadvantages in measure student’s writing skill. First, composition test is unreliable measures because students perform differently on several topics and on different occasions, and the scoring of compositions is by nature highly subjective. Second, in writing compositions, students can cover up weakness by avoiding problems such as the use of certain grammatical patterns and lexical items. Finally, composition test requires much more scoring times than objective test; for this reason, compositions add greatly to the expense and administrative problems of large scale testing.

            In conclusion, composition test that use by teachers in measure of student’s writing skill has certain strengths and also weaknesses. It will be interested if the teachers combine both of composition and objective test in measure student’s writing skill to reduce the disadvantages above.