TY - CHAP

T1 - Raters of subjectively-scored tests

AU - Rossi, Olena

AU - Brunfaut, Tineke

PY - 2020/9/2

Y1 - 2020/9/2

N2 - The crucial importance of valid and reliable scores in performance assessment has led to a range of measures taken to reduce rater variability. These include training and monitoring of raters, statistical adjustment of scores, and approaches that advocate the necessity of plural opinions on a performance sample and involve communal rating sessions to resolve rater differences. Rater reliability and scoring validity are not only major concerns of large‐scale language testing, but are equally important in classroom language assessment. Accordingly, this entry discusses ways in which teachers can improve the reliability and validity of the scores they award to their students' speaking and writing test responses.

AB - The crucial importance of valid and reliable scores in performance assessment has led to a range of measures taken to reduce rater variability. These include training and monitoring of raters, statistical adjustment of scores, and approaches that advocate the necessity of plural opinions on a performance sample and involve communal rating sessions to resolve rater differences. Rater reliability and scoring validity are not only major concerns of large‐scale language testing, but are equally important in classroom language assessment. Accordingly, this entry discusses ways in which teachers can improve the reliability and validity of the scores they award to their students' speaking and writing test responses.

KW - rater training

KW - rater variability

KW - rating writing/speaking

KW - scoring reliability

KW - scoring writing/speaking

U2 - 10.1002/9781118784235.eelt0985

DO - 10.1002/9781118784235.eelt0985

M3 - Entry for encyclopedia/dictionary

SN - 9781118784228

T3 - The TESOL Encyclopedia of English Language Teaching

SP - 1

EP - 7

BT - The TESOL Encyclopedia of English Language Teaching

PB - John Wiley & Sons

ER -