EVALUATING THE CONSTRUCT-COVERAGE OF THE E-RATER® SCORING ENGINE

ETS Research Report Series

Volumn 2009, Issue 1, 2009, Pages i-35

  Quinlan, Thomas ^a   Higgins, Derrick ^a   Wolff, Susanne ^a  

^a EDUCATIONAL TESTING SERVICE   (United States)

Author keywords

automated essay scoring; e rater; writing assessment; writing skill

Indexed keywords

EID: 85167516028     PISSN: None     EISSN: 23308516     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/j.2333-8504.2009.tb02158.x     Document Type: Article

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