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Scoring Examinee Responses for Multiple Inferences: Multiple Scoring in Assessments
Author(s) -
Ercikan Kadriye
Publication year - 2002
Publication title -
educational measurement: issues and practice
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.158
H-Index - 52
eISSN - 1745-3992
pISSN - 0731-1745
DOI - 10.1111/j.1745-3992.2002.tb00087.x
Subject(s) - scoring system , inference , scale (ratio) , computer science , psychology , artificial intelligence , medicine , geography , surgery , cartography
Multiple scoring is widely used in large‐scale assessments. The use of a single response for making multiple inferences as is done in multiple scoring has implications on the validity of these inferences and interpretations based on assessment results. The purpose of this article is to review two types of multiple scoring practices and discuss how multiple scoring affects inferences.