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Fernandez, Miguel; Siddiqui, Athar Munir – Language Testing in Asia, 2017
Background: Marking of essays is mainly carried out by human raters who bring in their own subjective and idiosyncratic evaluation criteria, which sometimes lead to discrepancy. This discrepancy may in turn raise issues like reliability and fairness. The current research attempts to explore the evaluation criteria of markers on a national level…
Descriptors: Grading, Evaluators, Evaluation Criteria, High Stakes Tests
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Tsai, Min-hsiu – Action in Teacher Education, 2012
This study investigates the consistency between human raters and an automated essay scoring system in grading high school students' English compositions. A total of 923 essays from 23 classes of 12 senior high schools in Taiwan (Republic of China) were obtained and scored manually and electronically. The results show that the consistency between…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, High School Students, Writing (Composition), Essays