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Finn, Bridgid; Arslan, Burcu; Walsh, Matthew – Applied Measurement in Education, 2020
To score an essay response, raters draw on previously trained skills and knowledge about the underlying rubric and score criterion. Cognitive processes such as remembering, forgetting, and skill decay likely influence rater performance. To investigate how forgetting influences scoring, we evaluated raters' scoring accuracy on TOEFL and GRE essays.…
Descriptors: Epistemology, Essay Tests, Evaluators, Cognitive Processes
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Taube, Kurt T.; Linden, Kathryn W. – Applied Measurement in Education, 1989
The impact of participation rate and nine educational/demographic variables on state mean Scholastic Aptitude Test (SAT) scores for the class of 1985 was studied. It is misleading to compare scores on standardized tests without considering proportions of potential examinees taking the test, and the SAT needs to be renormed. (SLD)
Descriptors: College Entrance Examinations, Demography, High School Seniors, Predictor Variables