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Comparative Judgement for Evaluating Young Learners' EFL Writing Performances: Reliability and Teacher Perceptions of Holistic and Dimension-Based Judgements
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Rebecca Sickinger; Tineke Brunfaut; John Pill – Language Testing, 2025
Comparative Judgement (CJ) is an evaluation method, typically conducted online, whereby a rank order is constructed, and scores calculated, from judges' pairwise comparisons of performances. CJ has been researched in various educational contexts, though only rarely in English as a Foreign Language (EFL) writing settings, and is generally agreed to…
Descriptors: Writing Evaluation, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
Exploring Potential Biases in GPT-4o's Ratings of English Language Learners' Essays
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Taichi Yamashita – Language Testing, 2025
With the rapid development of generative artificial intelligence (AI) frameworks (e.g., the generative pre-trained transformer [GPT]), a growing number of researchers have started to explore its potential as an automated essay scoring (AES) system. While previous studies have investigated the alignment between human ratings and GPT ratings, few…
Descriptors: Artificial Intelligence, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction