AbstractThe purpose of this study is to develop and validate the Writing Assessment Literacy
Inventory (WALI) for the English primary school teachers focusing on three
constructs which are practices, belief, and knowledge. The items of the instrument
were mainly adapted based on the original instrument by Crusan et al., (2016) and
input from literature in order to best suit the Malaysian context. This study used
quantitative research approach using Rasch model in the data analysis. The draft
instrument containing 56 items of original WALI was administered to 40 primary
schools teachers for pilot study in order to measure the validity and reliability of this
instrument. Based on the results of the pilot study, five items were removed from the
original instrument. The real study involved 214 primary school English teachers
from 32 schools in the district of Kinta Utara selected through simple random
sampling technique. Rasch Measurement analysis was used to obtain important
informati.....