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Direct linkWu, Siew Mei; Tan, Susan – Higher Education Research and Development, 2016
Rating essays is a complex task where students' grades could be adversely affected by test-irrelevant factors such as rater characteristics and rating scales. Understanding these factors and controlling their effects are crucial for test validity. Rater behaviour has been extensively studied through qualitative methods such as questionnaires and…
Descriptors: Scoring, Item Response Theory, Student Placement, College Students
Download full textShabani, Mansour; Tahriri, Abdorreza; Ardebili, Samaneh Farzaneh – International Journal of Education and Literacy Studies, 2016
There has always been a debate whether or not the learners' first language (L1) can facilitate the process of learning foreign language. Since foreign language writing (FL) is a complicated process, it seems that the role of the learners' L1 and its effect on FL writing is of great importance in this regard. The present study aimed at…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Writing Ability, Second Language Learning, Native Speakers
Mohammadnia, Zhila; Ayaz, Parisa – English Language Teaching, 2015
Task-based planning can be conceptualized as the opportunity to work out task performance before the actual performance. It allows learners to process the content and language of their planned production at a deeper and more meaningful level. In the face of the wide range of research conducted on the effects of pre-task planning on L2 production,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Writing Ability
Atasoy, Arzu; Temizkan, Mehmet – Educational Sciences: Theory and Practice, 2016
Developed to evaluate secondary school students' writing fluency skills, this study is descriptive in nature and uses a mixed method approach. During the research, the researcher attempted to identify students' abilities to write in terms of quantity and complexity, on the one hand, and also attempted to identify findings on accuracy, the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Student Evaluation, Writing Evaluation, Writing Skills
Boyle, Joseph R.; Hindman, Annemarie H. – Middle Grades Research Journal, 2015
The purpose of this exploratory study was to develop and test a strategy to support middle grade students' persuasive writing skills. The sample included 52 eighth-grade students who were either proficient or struggling writers. The students were randomly assigned to either receive training on a graphic organizer designed to scaffold effective…
Descriptors: Middle School Students, Scaffolding (Teaching Technique), Persuasive Discourse, Writing Achievement
Deane, Paul – ETS Research Report Series, 2014
This paper explores automated methods for measuring features of student writing and determining their relationship to writing quality and other features of literacy, such as reading rest scores. In particular, it uses the "e-rater"™ automatic essay scoring system to measure "product" features (measurable traits of the final…
Descriptors: Writing Processes, Writing Evaluation, Student Evaluation, Writing Skills
Barkaoui, 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
Hardison, Chaitra M.; Sackett, Paul R. – Applied Measurement in Education, 2008
Despite the growing use of writing assessments in standardized tests, little is known about coaching effects on writing assessments. Therefore, this study tested the effects of short-term coaching on standardized writing tests, and the transfer of those effects to other writing genres. College freshmen were randomly assigned to either training…
Descriptors: Control Groups, Group Membership, College Freshmen, Writing Tests
Barkaoui, Khaled – Canadian Modern Language Review, 2007
Essay tests are widely used to assess ESL/EFL learners' writing abilities for instructional, administrative, and research purposes. Relevant literature was searched to identify 70 empirical studies on ESL/EFL essay tests. The majority of these studies examined task, essay, and rater effects on essay rating and scores. Less attention has been given…
Descriptors: Essay Tests, Language Tests, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
