The application of Multifaceted Rasch Measurement (MFRM) in rating test takers’ oral language proficiency has been investigated in some previous studies (e.g., Winke, Gass, & Myford, 2012). However, little research so far has ever documented the effect of test takers’ genders on their oral performances and few studies have investigated the relationship between the impact of raters’ gender on th...

BACKGROUND Patients with schizophrenia have deficits in facial affect expression and detection that hinder social interactions. The goal of this study was to examine whether or not epidemiologically-related antipsychotic-naïve schizotypal personality disorder (SPD) subjects would have similar deficits as patients with schizophrenia. METHODS Matched SPD and healthy comparison (HC) subjects wer...

among topics in the field of pragmatics, some seem to be in a more rigorous need of investigation. pragmatic assessment and specifically the issue of pragmatic rating are among issues which deserve more thorough consideration. the purpose of this study was to examine rater criteria and its consistency and variability in the assessment of iranian efl learners’ production of compliments based on ...

Gender score is the cognitive judgement of the degree of masculinity or femininity of a face which is considered to be a continuum. Gender scores have long been used in psychological studies to understand the complex psychosocial relationships between people. Perceptual scores for gender and attractiveness have been employed for quality assessment and planning of cosmetic facial surgery. Variou...

The score reliability of language performance tests has attracted increasing interest. Classical Test Theory cannot examine multiple sources of measurement error. Generalizability theory extends Classical Test Theory to provide a practical framework to identify and estimate multiple factors contributing to the total variance of measurement. Generalizability theory by using analysis of variance ...

OBJECTIVE To evaluate the Chinese public preferences for asymmetrically altered incisor angulations, with the goal of linking preferences to gender. METHODS Five variations of 5 separate digital smiling photographs were used in this survey. The alterations included discrepancy between the dental and facial midlines, inclination of dental midline and two central incisors, inclination of left c...

When students present writing tasks that require higher order thinking skills to work, one of the most important problems is scoring these objectively. The fact raters give scores below or above their performance based on several environmental factors affects consistency measurements. Inconsistencies in negatively affect validity and reliability student cause obtained be questioned. In regard m...