Rater Bias Assessment in Oral Proficiency of English Language Learners

ISBN-13: 9783659590344 / Angielski / Miękka / 2014 / 96 str.

Rezaei Mina;Akef Kourosh

Opis

Rater bias is a substantial source of error in performance assessment, where raters rate examinees based on a designed rubric of a specified scale. Unfortunately, raters comprehension from the assessment criteria is dissimilar to each other despite the training sessions of using it, so that would be undermines the validity and reliability. In this study both students and teachers played a role as the raters. If such performance assessment can be shown to be valid and reliable, participating students in the process of rating could contribute to lessening the burden on teachers. This study surveyed to find whether there is any significant difference among these raters in their severity or leniency in relation to difficulty levels of descriptors in the rating scale and the ability of the students. The results of Facets analysis showed that there were bias interactions between assessor types, and these bias interactions were statistically significant.

O autorze

She has been graduated from the MA in Teaching English as a Foreign Language (TEFL) from Iran. She is interested in researching and studying in performance assessment specially in oral proficiency. She is also a teacher and uses her researches' results in her classes.