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Sudweeks, Richard R.; Reeve, Suzanne; Bradshaw, William S. – Assessing Writing, 2004
A pilot study was conducted to evaluate and improve the rating procedure proposed for use in a research effort designed to assess the essay writing ability of college sophomores. Generalizability theory and the Many-Facet Rasch Model were each used to (a) estimate potential sources of error in the rating, (b) to obtain reliability estimates, and…
Descriptors: Generalizability Theory, College Students, Writing Ability, Writing Evaluation