Simplex Structure in the Grading of Essay Tests

Myers, Albert E.; McConville, Carolyn B.; Coffman, William E.

doi:10.1177/001316446602600105

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“…Table 2 supports such a speculation, since the low estimates reported by Coffman (1966) were based on a score range of only 1 (low) to 3 (high). Myers et al (1966) used similar methods with a 1-4 scale and obtained estimates similar to those reported by Coffman (1966). In a hypothetical set of data, Coffman (1971b) demonstrated that two ratings of the same 25 papers correlated .87 when a 15-point scale was used but only .n when a 5-point scale was used.…”

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confidence: 67%

The Direct Assessment of Writing Skill: A Measurement Review

Breland

1983

ETS Research Report Series

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Section: Reading Reliability-estimatesmentioning

confidence: 67%

The Direct Assessment of Writing Skill: A Measurement Review

Breland

1983

ETS Research Report Series

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“…Table 1 presents the descriptive data for individual parent and child comply responses to partner's play initiations, and expression of positive emotion, as well as dyadic measures of mutual compliance and shared positive affect. Because frequency scores were used to calculate rate per minute for initiations, and proportion scores were used for compliance and positive emotion, in subsequent analyses scores are subject to arcsine transformation (Myers, 1966). However, for ease of interpretation, all means are presented in Table 1 and the text are based on the raw, untransformed proportion scores.…”

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Mother–child and father–child mutuality in two contexts: consequences for young children's peer relationships

Lindsey

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Caldera

2009

Infant and Child Development

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This study examines the role that context plays in links between relative balance, or mutuality in parent-child interaction and children's social competence. Sixty-three toddlers and their parents were observed in a laboratory play session and caregiving activity (i.e. eating snack). Mutuality was operationalised as the relative balance in (a) partners' compliance to initiations, and (b) partners' expression of positive emotion. Caregivers rated children's social competence with peers, and children's prosocial and aggressive behaviour with peers was observed in their childcare arrangement. Contextual differences were observed in the manifestation of parent-child mutuality, with both motherchild and father-child dyads displaying higher mutual compliance scores in the play context than in the caregiving context. Father-child dyads also displayed higher levels of shared positive emotion during play than during the caregiving context. There were no differences in a way that parent-child mutuality during play and caregiving was associated with children's social competence with peers. Overall, the results suggest that parentchild mutuality is a quality of parent-child interaction that has consistent links to children's peer competence regardless of the context in which it occurs.

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“…The study's goal was broad, namely, to better understand the construct of writing through several testing formats, among them short (20‐min) essays to be scored holistically . As the authors noted, by then holistic scoring 3 was already in use (Myers, McConville, & Coffman, 1966). In fact, the first description of “wholistic” scoring appeared as early as 1952 (Coward, 1952).…”

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Rater Cognition: Implications for Validity

Bejar

2012

Educational Measurement

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The scoring process is critical in the validation of tests that rely on constructed responses. Documenting that readers carry out the scoring in ways consistent with the construct and measurement goals is an important aspect of score validity. In this article, rater cognition is approached as a source of support for a validity argument for scores based on constructed responses, whether such scores are to be used on their own or as the basis for other scoring processes, for example, automated scoring.

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Simplex Structure in the Grading of Essay Tests

Cited by 17 publications

References 3 publications

The Direct Assessment of Writing Skill: A Measurement Review

The Direct Assessment of Writing Skill: A Measurement Review

Mother–child and father–child mutuality in two contexts: consequences for young children's peer relationships

Rater Cognition: Implications for Validity

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