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A More Objective Method of Scoring Compositions
Author(s) -
Seibert Louise C.,
Goddard Eunice R.
Publication year - 1935
Publication title -
the modern language journal
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 3.486
H-Index - 83
eISSN - 1540-4781
pISSN - 0026-7902
DOI - 10.1111/j.1540-4781.1935.tb02669.x
Subject(s) - anecdote , test (biology) , computer science , basis (linear algebra) , natural language processing , linguistics , cognitive psychology , artificial intelligence , psychology , mathematics , art , literature , philosophy , paleontology , geometry , biology
As a test of the ability to write a foreign language, the retelling of an anecdote has many advantages over the description of a picture; the scoring of such compositions on the basis of the density of mistakes per 100 words correlates very highly with the best subjective method of scoring and has in addition the advantage of being objective