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Direct linkAllen, Laura K.; Likens, Aaron D.; McNamara, Danielle S. – Grantee Submission, 2018
The assessment of writing proficiency generally includes analyses of the specific linguistic and rhetorical features contained in the singular essays produced by students. However, researchers have recently proposed that an individual's ability to flexibly adapt the linguistic properties of their writing might more closely capture writing skill.…
Descriptors: Writing Evaluation, Writing Tests, Computer Assisted Testing, Writing Skills
Sultana, Qaisar – 2001
This study examined the reliability of scores assigned to the essays written by Kentucky students to meet the University Writing Requirement (UWR) at Eastern Kentucky University. Two sets of essays, 50 each, on the same prompt that had been read and scored in 1989 and 1997 by trained UWR scorers were read by 7 UWR scorers in 2000. A correlation…
Descriptors: College Students, Correlation, Essays, Higher Education
Wolfe, Edward W.; Kao, Chi-Wen – 1996
This paper reports the results of an analysis of the relationship between scorer behaviors and score variability. Thirty-six essay scorers were interviewed and asked to perform a think-aloud task as they scored 24 essays. Each comment made by a scorer was coded according to its content focus (i.e. appearance, assignment, mechanics, communication,…
Descriptors: Content Analysis, Educational Assessment, Essays, Evaluation Methods
Wolfe, Edward W.; Feltovich, Brian – 1994
This paper presents a model of scored cognition that incorporates two types of mental models: models of performance (i.e., the criteria for judging performance) and models of scoring (i.e., the procedural scripts for scoring an essay). In Study 1, six novice and five experienced scorers wrote definitions of three levels of a 6-point holistic…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Criteria, Essays, Evaluation Methods
Meagher, Eileen M. – 1993
A study examined the expectations of incoming University of Tennessee at Chattanooga freshmen about an hour-long placement essay. Subjects, 96 randomly chosen students, responded to a series of 5 questions concerning what an essay is, what kinds of writing they had done, how they feel about writing tests, what topics they had written about in…
Descriptors: College Freshmen, Essays, High Schools, Higher Education
Peer reviewedEngelhard, George, Jr. – Applied Measurement in Education, 1992
A Many-Faceted Rasch Model (FACETS) for measurement of writing ability is described, and its use in solving measurement problems in large-scale assessment is illustrated with a random sample of 1,000 students from Georgia's Eighth Grade Writing Test. It is a promising approach to assessment through written compositions. (SLD)
Descriptors: Educational Assessment, Essays, Evaluation Problems, Grade 8
