Assessing Spoken EFL Without a Common Rating Scale

Development of a Rating Scale for Elementary EFL Writing

In EFL programs, rating scales used in writing assessment are often constructed by intuition. Intuition-based scales tend to provide inaccurate and divisive ratings of learners’ writing performance. Hence, following an empirical approach, this study attempted to develop a rating scale for elementary-level writing at an EFL program in Saudi Arabia. Towards this goal, 98 students’ essays were sco...

Assessing Critical Thinking Ability via the Writing Process: Developing and implementing a Rating Scale

The present exploratory mixed methods study aimedto develop a scale for assessing critical thinking (CT) ability of Iranian EFL learners. The study wasconducted in three phases. In phase one, the features of CT components were examined in the writingsof 120 participants. A holistic and an analytic scale were developed based on their performance in exploiting the components of CT and the fea...

Assistance to assessing rating students by language tuple- 4 scale

In this paper, we introduce an assistance to assessing rating the annual learning and process training of students in the opinion of experts, the approach of hedge algebra. It is advisary to make optimally fuzzy parameters with neural network in order to scale tuple-4 in accordance with current regulations on student assessment annual ranking including 7 levels.

Psychometric Characteristics of a Rating Scale for Assessing Interactional Competence in Paired-Speaking Tasks at Micro-level

Developing rating scales for assessing interactional performance is demanding since it is a relatively complicated procedure. The present study investigated the psychometric characteristics of the CAP rating scale (Wang, 2015) for assessing interactional competence at micro-level. To this end, 160 Iranian intermediate EFL learners were selected based on their performance on TOEFL iBT test from ...

A rating scale for depression.