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Ten objective measures of writing proficiency were used to evaluate compositions written by advanced ESL students. Only those objective measures which take the absence of errors into account discriminated among holistic evaluations of the compositions by experienced ESL teachers. A standardized objective writing test failed to discriminate among the holistic evaluations as well as the error-free objective measures did.
Kyle Perkins (Sat,) studied this question.