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Using Calibrated Exemplars in the Teacher-Assessment of Writing: An Empirical Study
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Heldsinger, Sandra A.; Humphry, Stephen M. – Educational Research, 2013
Background: Many in education argue for the importance of incorporating teacher judgements in the assessment and reporting of student performance. Advocates of such an approach are cognisant, though, that obtaining a satisfactory level of consistency in teacher judgements poses a challenge. Purpose: This study investigates the extent to which the…
Descriptors: Evaluation Methods, Student Evaluation, Teacher Attitudes, Comparative Analysis
Measuring the Academic Skills of University Students: Evaluation of a Diagnostic Procedure
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Erling, Elizabeth J.; Richardson, John T. E. – Assessing Writing, 2010
Measuring the Academic Skills of University Students is a procedure developed in the 1990s at the University of Sydney's Language Centre to identify students in need of academic writing development by assessing examples of their written work against five criteria. This paper reviews the literature relating to the development of the procedure with…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Writing Evaluation, Assignments, Psychometrics
General Impression Marking: Some Caveats.
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Hay, John – English in Australia, 1982
Makes certain observations relating to the use of general-impression marking as a partial determinant of admission to tertiary educational institutions in Western Australia. (HOD)
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Holistic Evaluation, National Competency Tests, Secondary Education