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Rater Reliability of the Oral Interview Speaking Test
Author(s) -
Shohamy Elana
Publication year - 1983
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.1944-9720.1983.tb01456.x
Subject(s) - psychology , reliability (semiconductor) , test (biology) , inter rater reliability , hebrew , semi structured interview , applied psychology , medical education , clinical psychology , social psychology , linguistics , qualitative research , developmental psychology , rating scale , medicine , sociology , paleontology , power (physics) , physics , philosophy , social science , quantum mechanics , biology
This paper reports results of a study which examined inter‐ and intra‐rater reliability of the Oral Interview test. Oral interviews were administered to one hundred six students of Hebrew at the University of Minnesota; the taped interviews were then graded independently by three trained raters. The results suggest that communicative tests such as the Oral Interview can be used reliably by decision‐makers in spite of their subjective nature.