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Yumei Zou; Sathiamoorthy Kannan; Gurnam Kaur Sidhu – SAGE Open, 2024
Task design has been viewed to be essential in the context of language assessment. This study investigated whether increasing task complexity affects learners' writing performance. It employs three writing tasks with different levels of complexity based on Robinson's Componential Framework. A cohort of 278 participants was selected using a simple…
Descriptors: Difficulty Level, College Students, Foreign Countries, Writing Achievement
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Lyness, Scott A.; Peterson, Kent; Yates, Kenneth – Education Sciences, 2021
The Performance Assessment for California Teachers (PACT) is a high stakes summative assessment that was designed to measure pre-service teacher readiness. We examined the inter-rater reliability (IRR) of trained PACT evaluators who rated 19 candidates. As measured by Cohen's weighted kappa, the overall IRR estimate was 0.17 (poor strength of…
Descriptors: High Stakes Tests, Performance Based Assessment, Teacher Effectiveness, Academic Language