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Hixson, Nate; Rhudy, Vaughn – West Virginia Department of Education, 2013
Student responses to the West Virginia Educational Standards Test (WESTEST) 2 Online Writing Assessment are scored by a computer-scoring engine. The scoring method is not widely understood among educators, and there exists a misperception that it is not comparable to hand scoring. To address these issues, the West Virginia Department of Education…
Descriptors: Scoring Formulas, Scoring Rubrics, Interrater Reliability, Test Scoring Machines
Education Commission of the States, Denver, CO. – 1979
Data presented in this report are the results of the special assessment of writing mechanics conducted during the 1978-79 school year by the Education Commission of the States (ECS) for the Department of Defense Dependents Schools (DoDDS). The purposes of the study were (1) to examine writing abilities of 9-, 13-, and 17-year-old students enrolled…
Descriptors: Comparative Testing, Elementary Secondary Education, Essay Tests, Essays