Are candidates obliged to submit plans or rough drafts of their written answers?
The Adult ESOL Core Curriculum requires students to be able to show they can plan, draft and revise their writing (Wt/E3.1, Wt/L1.1, Wt/L2.1). However, these Basic Skills standards are difficult to test fairly. One reason for this is that a highly proficient writer would not necessarily need to produce a written draft in order to complete a simple writing task. A number of the Basic Skills Standards descriptors in the Adult ESOL Core Curriculum have a teaching, rather than a testing, focus and those mentioned above are a good example. Where this is the case, evidence of achievement is gathered by looking at the end result — in this case if a text is coherent and well organised, it is likely that it was well planned.
