Stumping e-rater: Challenging the Validity of Automated Essay Scoring GRE AES
- Author(s):
- Powers, Donald E.; Burstein, Jill; Chodorow, Martin; Fowles, Mary E.; Kukich, Karen
- Publication Year:
- 2014
- Source:
- Wendler, Cathy; Bridgeman, Brent (eds.) with assistance from Chelsea Ezzo. The Research Foundation for the GRE revised General Test: A Compendium of Studies. Princeton, NJ: Educational Testing Service, 2014, p4.3.1-4.3.4
- Document Type:
- Chapter
- Page Count:
- 4
- Subject/Key Words:
- Graduate Record Examination (GRE), Revised GRE, Test Design, Test Revision, Automated Essay Scoring (AES), Validity, Human Scoring, e-rater, Scoring Models, Analytical Writing
Abstract
As a result of this research, later versions of e-rater include flags to identify essays with this kind of repetition so that they go directly to human raters and not receive an e-rater score.