Open AccessNOTE ON THE SCORING OF FOREIGN LANGUAGE SPEAKING AND WRITING FLUENCY TESTS 1
Author(s) -
Carroll John B.
Publication year - 1970
Publication title -
ets research bulletin series
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2333-8504
pISSN - 0424-6144
DOI - 10.1002/j.2333-8504.1970.tb00781.x
Subject(s) - fluency , raw score , quality (philosophy) , linguistics , computer science , natural language processing , psychology , raw data , mathematics , statistics , mathematics education , philosophy , epistemology
Data from French speaking and writing fluency tests are analyzed to support the suggestion that scoring formulas should reflect two components of performance: (1) quantity of correct response, and (2) relative quality of response. This may require nonlinear combinations of raw scores, usually, formulas involving ratios or products.