High-Stakes English Writing Assessment in Egyptian Secondary Schools

In the last three decades, the Egyptian Ministry of Education introduced four different English textbook series to the students attending public schools in Egypt. The question yet to be answered is: How have these curricular reforms influenced English writing instructional and assessment practices in the Egyptian high schools? The chapter tries to answer this question by: (1) reviewing changing orientations in the high-stakes assessment of writing in Egyptian high schools; and (2) exploring the extent to which teachers’ reported writing instructional practices have been influenced by the latest curricular reform.