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Direct linkElder, Cathie; Knoch, Ute; Barkhuizen, Gary; von Randow, Janet – Language Assessment Quarterly, 2005
Research on the utility of feedback to raters in the form of performance reports has produced mixed findings (Lunt, Morton, & Wigglesworth, 1994; Wigglesworth, 1993) and has thus far been trialled only in oral assessment contexts. This article reports on a study investigating raters' attitudes and responsiveness to feedback on their ratings of…
Descriptors: Feedback (Response), Scripts, Test Bias, Writing Evaluation
Peer reviewedHollenbeck, Keith; Tindal, Gerald; Almond, Patricia – Educational Assessment, 1999
Studied the amount of measurement error in a state's performance-based writing task as it relates to high-stakes decision reproducibility. Using 175 eighth-grade writing samples, the study finds moderate correlations between the two raters' scores, with significant differences for the rates for the handwritten, but not the typed, essays.(SLD)
Descriptors: Decision Making, Error of Measurement, Essay Tests, Grade 8
