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Download full textAttali, Yigal – Educational Testing Service, 2011
This paper proposes an alternative content measure for essay scoring, based on the "difference" in the relative frequency of a word in high-scored versus low-scored essays. The "differential word use" (DWU) measure is the average of these differences across all words in the essay. A positive value indicates the essay is using…
Descriptors: Scoring, Essay Tests, Word Frequency, Content Analysis
