Test-Score Reliability of Essay Questions in BA Examination
Writing is one of the basic language skills. Both objective tests and essay questions can be used to evaluate students’ performance in the writing skill. The objective tests are generally considered useful as they help in measuring certain abilities accurately and they yield reliable scores. But essay tests can be used more effectively to measure certain complex learning outcomes such as organization, synthesis, and analysis. Essays provide an effective form of testing to evaluate the communicative skill of students at the higher level. Such items have the problems of consistency, objectivity, and reliability of their scores. The present study focuses on the issue of scorer reliability and attempts to suggest an objective model of scoring for the free-response essay question set in the B.A. examination for Islamia University of Bahawalpur in the subject of English compulsory.
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Language Testing, Writing Skill, Scorer Reliability, Essay Question
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(1) Muhammad Asif Khan
Assistant Professor, Department of English, The Islamia University of Bahawalpur, Bahawalpur, Punjab
(2) Umbreen Ishfaq
Assistant Professor, Department of Education,, The University of Haripur, Haripur, KP, Pakistan.
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APA : Khan, M. A., & Ishfaq, U. (2016). Test-Score Reliability of Essay Questions in BA Examination. Global Language Review, I(I), 58-65. https://doi.org/10.31703/glr.2016(I-I).05
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CHICAGO : Khan, Muhammad Asif, and Umbreen Ishfaq. 2016. "Test-Score Reliability of Essay Questions in BA Examination." Global Language Review, I (I): 58-65 doi: 10.31703/glr.2016(I-I).05
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HARVARD : KHAN, M. A. & ISHFAQ, U. 2016. Test-Score Reliability of Essay Questions in BA Examination. Global Language Review, I, 58-65.
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MHRA : Khan, Muhammad Asif, and Umbreen Ishfaq. 2016. "Test-Score Reliability of Essay Questions in BA Examination." Global Language Review, I: 58-65
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OXFORD : Khan, Muhammad Asif and Ishfaq, Umbreen (2016), "Test-Score Reliability of Essay Questions in BA Examination", Global Language Review, I (I), 58-65
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TURABIAN : Khan, Muhammad Asif, and Umbreen Ishfaq. "Test-Score Reliability of Essay Questions in BA Examination." Global Language Review I, no. I (2016): 58-65. https://doi.org/10.31703/glr.2016(I-I).05