Little is known about how the assessment modality,i.e.,computer-based(CB)and paper-based(PB)tests,affects language teachers’scorings,perceptions,and preferences and,therefore,the validity and fairness of classroom wr...
funded by China National Planning Office of Philosophy and Social Science(No.08XYY007)
This explorative study investigates 1) whether and how quantitative measures of writing can be applied in finding out about scoring raters' specific tendency in their scoring of EFL writing; 2) how the knowledge of...
This study investigates how raters make their scoring decisions when assessing tape-mediated speaking test performance. 24 Chinese EFL teachers were trained before scoring analytically five sample tapes selected from ...
This paper is one of the outcomes of the university project ( XB200349)
Four samples were chosen by systematic sampling from the range-finders between 1987 and 2003 to test the range-finders’ representativeness of the scoring criteria of CET-4 compositions. The samples were analyzed from...