Explain the purpose of the test, which is to identify strengths and weaknesses in student writing. Briefly provide an overview of the tasks that students were asked to perform in order to complete the test.
Explain the three composite areas that were evaluated: overall writing, contrived writing, and spontaneous writing. Offer a brief summary of what each composite area examines. Report the standard scores first, but follow with a description of what the standard scores mean by using the age-equivalent or grade-equivalent scores, or both, as further description of the student's performance. Percentile scores are also included in the test manual. Look through the manual to find the publisher's descriptive ranges ("average," "above average") that correspond to each score.
Explain the seven subtest scores: vocabulary, spelling, punctuation, logical sentences, sentence combining, contextual conventions, and story composition. Explain which subtests comprise which composite scores. Again, begin with the standard scores but follow with either age-equivalent or grade-equivalent scores. End with the descriptive ranges of each score.
Summarize the student's performance on this assessment by referring to the overall writing score. Make recommendations for further testing and interventions to remediate weaknesses.