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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 -