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Toward Fair and Consistent Evaluation of Essays in Second Language Learning
Author(s) -
Prokopx Manfred
Publication year - 1981
Publication title -
foreign language annals
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.258
H-Index - 49
eISSN - 1944-9720
pISSN - 0015-718X
DOI - 10.1111/j.1944-9720.1981.tb01650.x
Subject(s) - set (abstract data type) , linguistics , computer science , product (mathematics) , second language , psychology , natural language processing , artificial intelligence , mathematics education , mathematics , philosophy , programming language , geometry
The author discusses existing methods of correcting essays in second language instruction and proposes an approach which takes into account both the grammatical accuracy of the product and the difficulty of the topic set. It is suggested that essays of differing lengths and different difficulty can then be scored more reliably and consistently than standard procedures usually allow.