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Eser, Mehmet Taha; Aksu, Gökhan – International Journal of Curriculum and Instruction, 2022
The agreement between raters is examined within the scope of the concept of "inter-rater reliability". Although there are clear definitions of the concepts of agreement between raters and reliability between raters, there is no clear information about the conditions under which agreement and reliability level methods are appropriate to…
Descriptors: Generalizability Theory, Interrater Reliability, Evaluation Methods, Test Theory
Badjadi, Nour El Imane – Online Submission, 2013
The current paper on writing assessment surveys the literature on the reliability and validity of essay tests. The paper aims to examine the two concepts in relationship with essay testing as well as to provide a snapshot of the current understandings of the reliability and validity of essay tests as drawn in recent research studies. Bearing in…
Descriptors: Essay Tests, Writing Evaluation, Test Validity, Test Reliability
Haertel, Edward H. – 1992
Classical test theory, item response theory, and generalizability theory all treat the abilities to be measured as continuous variables, and the items of a test as independent probes of underlying continua. These models are well-suited to measuring the broad, diffuse traits of traditional differential psychology, but not for measuring the outcomes…
Descriptors: Ability, Data Analysis, Error of Measurement, Generalizability Theory
Dovell, Patricia; Buhr, Dianne C. – 1986
This study examined the difficulty level of essay topics used in the large-scale assessment of writing in relation to five different scoring models, and sought to determine what effects the scoring models would have on passing rates. In model one, examinee's score is the direct result of a score assigned by the reader or the sum of scores assigned…
Descriptors: College Students, Difficulty Level, Essay Tests, Essays