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Download full textCamara, Wayne J. – College Entrance Examination Board, 2003
The essay on the writing section of the SAT will be scored using a holistic approach. In holistic scoring, a piece of writing is considered as a total piece of work--the whole of which is greater than the sum of its parts.
Descriptors: Scoring, Essay Tests, Holistic Approach, Scoring Formulas
Pomplun, Mark; And Others – 1992
This study evaluated the use of bivariate matching as a solution to the problem of studying differential item functioning (DIF) with formula scored tests. Using Scholastic Aptitude Test verbal data with large samples, both male/female and black/white group comparisons were investigated. Mantel-Haenszel (MH) delta-(D) DIF values and DIF category…
Descriptors: Blacks, Criteria, Females, Item Bias
Angoff, William H.; Schrader, William B. – 1981
The purpose of this study was to determine whether it would be possible to equate rights-scored to formula-scored tests without causing a discontinuity in the meaning of the score scale. Several other subsidiary studies--of the characteristics of the two scoring methods, of nonresponse and guessing, and of reliability and parallelism--were also…
Descriptors: Academic Ability, College Entrance Examinations, Equated Scores, Guessing (Tests)
