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Title
An Inter-Rater Perspective for the Researches on Assessing Writing
Abstract
In assessing EFL students’ writings consistently, there are various factors that must be taken into consideration while rating. Especially those who want to make quantitative researches using raters or who aim to give suitable feedback to written productions should be responsible for fulfilling the requirements in marking and scoring process. In this context, this paper looks insight for some issues related to the raters, such as inter-rater reliability, analytic or holistic examinations, rating criteria, and others. This study includes 8 native raters and 8 non-native raters, each of whom rated an ESL essay both holistically and analytically. Every participant rater’s background of scoring ESL writings was similar. The result showed that there was no significant difference between raters, that is, participants’ grading of the essay is irrespective of their being native speakers. At the end of the study, some important implications for essay rating practices and both the researchers and language teacher were emphasized. Key Words: Rater, Reliability, Assessing Writing, EFL
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PeerReviewed
PeerReviewed
Date
2010-06
Extent
395