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Direct linkBarkaoui, Khaled – Assessment in Education: Principles, Policy & Practice, 2011
This study examined the effects of marking method and rater experience on ESL (English as a Second Language) essay test scores and rater performance. Each of 31 novice and 29 experienced raters rated a sample of ESL essays both holistically and analytically. Essay scores were analysed using a multi-faceted Rasch model to compare test-takers'…
Descriptors: Writing Evaluation, Writing Tests, Essay Tests, Interrater Reliability
Download full textCamara, Wayne J. – College Entrance Examination Board, 2003
The essay on the writing section of the SAT will be scored using a holistic approach. In holistic scoring, a piece of writing is considered as a total piece of work--the whole of which is greater than the sum of its parts.
Descriptors: Scoring, Essay Tests, Holistic Approach, Scoring Formulas
Ben-Simon, Anat; Bennett, Randy Elliott – Journal of Technology, Learning, and Assessment, 2007
This study evaluated a "substantively driven" method for scoring NAEP writing assessments automatically. The study used variations of an existing commercial program, e-rater[R], to compare the performance of three approaches to automated essay scoring: a "brute-empirical" approach in which variables are selected and weighted solely according to…
Descriptors: Writing Evaluation, Writing Tests, Scoring, Essays
