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Scott A. Crossley; Minkyung Kim; Qian Wan; Laura K. Allen; Rurik Tywoniw; Danielle McNamara – Assessment in Education: Principles, Policy & Practice, 2025
This study examines the potential to use non-expert, crowd-sourced raters to score essays by comparing expert raters' and crowd-sourced raters' assessments of writing quality. Expert raters and crowd-sourced raters scored 400 essays using a standardised holistic rubric and comparative judgement (pairwise ratings) scoring techniques, respectively.…
Descriptors: Writing Evaluation, Essays, Novices, Knowledge Level
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John Jerrim; Philip D. Parker; Nikki Shure – Assessment in Education: Principles, Policy & Practice, 2023
This paper investigates the phenomena of overclaiming -- the propensity for individuals to claim more knowledge about an issue or topic than they really (or could possibly) do. Using Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) data from nine Anglophone countries and over 40,000 young people, we examine teenagers' propensity to claim…
Descriptors: International Assessment, Foreign Countries, Secondary School Students, Achievement Tests
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Dogbey, James; Dogbey, John – Assessment in Education: Principles, Policy & Practice, 2018
This study examined the Core Mathematics assessment of the West African Senior School Certificate Examination (WASSCE) by the West African Examination Council (WAEC) in Ghana for "Depth of Knowledge and Context Characteristics" over a 20-year period. In all, 1245 assessment items were analysed. The results indicated that nearly 80% of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Mathematics Skills, Knowledge Level, Mathematical Concepts
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Edwards, Frances – Assessment in Education: Principles, Policy & Practice, 2017
Teachers require specialised assessment knowledge and skills in order to effectively assess student learning. These knowledge and skills develop over time through ongoing teacher learning and experiences. The first part of this paper presents a Summative Assessment Literacy Rubric (SALRubric) constructed to track the development of secondary…
Descriptors: Scoring Rubrics, Preservice Teachers, Beginning Teachers, Secondary School Teachers