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Direct linkJin, Tan; Mak, Barley; Zhou, Pei – Language Testing, 2012
The fuzziness of assessing second language speaking performance raises two difficulties in scoring speaking performance: "indistinction between adjacent levels" and "overlap between scales". To address these two problems, this article proposes a new approach, "confidence scoring", to deal with such fuzziness, leading to "confidence" scores between…
Descriptors: Speech Communication, Scoring, Test Interpretation, Second Language Learning
