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Dogan, C. Deha; Uluman, Müge – Educational Sciences: Theory and Practice, 2017
The aim of this study was to determine the extent at which graded-category rating scales and rubrics contribute to inter-rater reliability. The research was designed as a correlational study. Study group consisted of 82 students attending sixth grade and three writing course teachers in a private elementary school. A performance task was…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Scoring Rubrics, Rating Scales, Interrater Reliability
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Gugiu, Mihaiela R.; Gugiu, Paul C.; Baldus, Robert – Journal of MultiDisciplinary Evaluation, 2012
Background: Educational researchers have long espoused the virtues of writing with regard to student cognitive skills. However, research on the reliability of the grades assigned to written papers reveals a high degree of contradiction, with some researchers concluding that the grades assigned are very reliable whereas others suggesting that they…
Descriptors: Grades (Scholastic), Grading, Scoring Rubrics, Research Design
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Henry, Beverly W.; Smith, Thomas J. – Journal of Nutrition Education and Behavior, 2010
Objective: To develop an instrument to assess client-centered counseling behaviors (skills) of student-counselors in a standardized patient (SP) exercise. Methods: Descriptive study of the accuracy and utility of a newly developed counseling evaluation instrument. Study participants included 11 female student-counselors at a Midwestern…
Descriptors: Feedback (Response), Generalizability Theory, Nutrition, Diseases
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Leung, Kai-Kuen; Wang, Wei-Dan; Chen, Yen-Yuan – Advances in Health Sciences Education, 2012
There is a lack of information on the use of multi-source evaluation to assess trainees' interpersonal and communication skills in Oriental settings. This study is conducted to assess the reliability and applicability of assessing the interpersonal and communication skills of family medicine residents by patients, peer residents, nurses, and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Clinical Teaching (Health Professions), Communication Skills, Patients
Moore, Alan D.; Young, Suzanne – 1997
As schools move toward performance assessment, there is increasing discussion of using these assessments for accountability purposes. When used for making decisions, performance assessments must meet high standards of validity and reliability. One major source of unreliability in performance assessments is interrater disagreement. In this paper,…
Descriptors: Accountability, Correlation, Elementary Secondary Education, Generalizability Theory
Rowley, Glenn L. – 1986
Classroom researchers are frequently urged to provide evidence of the reliability of their data. In the case of observational data, three approaches to this have emerged: observer agreement, generalizability theory, and measurement error. Generalizability theory provides the most powerful approach given an adequate data collection design, but…
Descriptors: Classroom Observation Techniques, Classroom Research, Correlation, Elementary Education
Cope, Ronald T. – 1987
This study used generalizability theory and other statistical concepts to assess the application of the Angoff method to setting cutoff scores on two professional certification tests. A panel of ten judges gave pre- and post-feedback Angoff probability ratings of items of two forms of a professional certification test, and another panel of nine…
Descriptors: Certification, Correlation, Cutting Scores, Error of Measurement
Shale, Doug – 1986
This study is an attempt at a cohesive characterization of the concept of essay reliability. As such, it takes as a basic premise that previous and current practices in reporting reliability estimates for essay tests have certain shortcomings. The study provides an analysis of these shortcomings--partly to encourage a fuller understanding of the…
Descriptors: Analysis of Variance, Correlation, Error of Measurement, Essay Tests