Measuring the Impact of Peer Interaction in Group Oral Assessments with an Extended Many‐Facet Rasch Model
Kuan‐Yu Jin,
Thomas Eckes
Abstract:Many language proficiency tests include group oral assessments involving peer interaction. In such an assessment, examinees discuss a common topic with others. Human raters score each examinee's spoken performance on specially designed criteria. However, measurement models for analyzing group assessment data usually assume local person independence and thus fail to consider the impact of peer interaction on the assessment outcomes. This research advances an extended many‐facet Rasch model for group assessments… Show more
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