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Peer reviewedSwartz, Carl W.; Hooper, Stephen R.; Mongomery, James W.; Wakely, Melissa B.; De Kruif, Renee E. L.; Reed, Martha; Brown, Timothy T.; Levine, Melvin D.; White, Kinnard P. – Educational and Psychological Measurement, 1999
Used generalizability theory to investigate the impact of the number of raters and the type of decision (relative versus absolute) on the reliability of writing scores. Results from 251 middle school students and 20 intermediate grade students show that reliability coefficients decline as the number of raters declines and when absolute decisions…
Descriptors: Estimation (Mathematics), Generalizability Theory, Holistic Evaluation, Intermediate Grades
