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Examining Severity and Centrality Effects in TestDaF Writing and Speaking Assessments: An Extended Bayesian Many-Facet Rasch Analysis
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Eckes, Thomas; Jin, Kuan-Yu – International Journal of Testing, 2021
Severity and centrality are two main kinds of rater effects posing threats to the validity and fairness of performance assessments. Adopting Jin and Wang's (2018) extended facets modeling approach, we separately estimated the magnitude of rater severity and centrality effects in the web-based TestDaF (Test of German as a Foreign Language) writing…
Descriptors: Language Tests, German, Second Languages, Writing Tests