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The selection of raters in a multi-source feedback process
… in a MSF process for ratees to select the raters of their performance, the method may actually be introducing new biases. Given this, the current study employed a web-based survey to assess the effects that an individual's level of organizational based self-esteem (OBSE) may have on rater …
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A Study of the Effect of Raters' Characteristics and Leadership Styles Onperformance Ratings
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The social context of accountability: effects of raters' expectations of a supervisory review
… The present study examined the effects of making raters more accountable for their performance ratings through expectations of a supervisory review. Two types of accountability were manipulated. Interpersonal accountability induced subjects to believe that they would receive feedback based on …
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Understanding How Raters Communicate in the Context of Medical High-Stakes, Performance-Based Assessments
… in the medical education literature that raters represent a significant source of unexplained variance in performance assessments. To better understand the variance associated with raters’ evaluative judgments, this dissertation investigated how raters, in various assessment contexts, …
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Making raters more accountable for their performance ratings: effects of expecting a supervisory review of ratings
… to performance evaluations. Undergraduate raters in accountability conditions expected to meet with one of their actual professors to justify performance ratings. To further investigate the nature of accountability, this study contrasted with Tetlock's work in utilizing two different types …
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Raters' different judgments of intelligibility in the English placement test at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
This study investigated raters’ judgments of test-takers’ intelligibility on Phase I of the EPT (English Placement Test), and how their various teaching experiences and different native languages affected their judgments. The EPT is administered to incoming international students whose TOEFL scores …
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Beyond CTT and IRT: using an interactional measurement model to investigate the decision making process of EPT essay raters
… of various stakeholders, among whom essay raters have a great impact on essay scores due to their subjective scoring decision, hence influencing the test validity and reliability (Huot, 1990; Lumley, 2002). This understanding puts forward the demand on the development and facilitation of …
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Considering Broad vs. Narrow Personality Traits of Raters as Predictors of Rating Accuracy in Social Media Judgements of Personality
… shown that the personality characteristics of raters seem to play a minor role in shaping the accuracy of their personality judgments of other people. However, as prior research studies relied largely on broad (i.e., dimension-level) trait measures to operationalise rater personality, it is …
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The relationship between raters' understanding of personality traits and situation dimensions from cues: nothing more than general mental ability?
… and behaviours. The relationship between raters' general mental ability (GMA) and these specific abilities was evaluated. A total of 121 participants completed various ability tests including the International Cognitive Ability Resource (ICAR), Situation Induction Test, and the Short …
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An investigation of a method for validating individual raters of performance and its implications for a generalized rating ability
… the use of a technique for validating individual raters of performance and its implications for the existence of a generalized "ability" in raters to make accurate assessments of others performance. Subjects were asked to record critical incidents of ratees' performance in two types of job …
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Investigating the comparative validity of computer- and paper-based writing tests and differences in impact on EFL test-takers and raters
… and differences in impact on EFL test-takers and raters. The focus of this study was to identify whether there were differences between the types of test mode, CB and PB, and in how they impacted university students' cognitive processes, performance and preferences for test mode as well as raters' …
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The educational leader portfolio: the reliability of portfolios as documentation of mastery of Isllc standards and functions
… or inconsistency existed among the portfolio raters. Many colleges and universities utilize portfolios as performance-based assessments to measure growth of educational leadership students. The results of this study are provided as evidence of what is working and what is not working in regard …
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Accuracy and reliability of job evaluation: the roles of amount of information and ability to handle complex information
… some extent, the amount of agreement with other raters. Previous research has manipulated amount of information as a job title only versus a job description (Hahn & Dipboye, 1988; Harvey & Lozada-Larsen, 1988). Thus, the nature of the relation between amount of information and rating quality is …
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Exploring the Reliability of an Objective Severity Tool to Classify Severe Problem Behaviour
… Nine Board Certified Behavior Analyst (BCBA) raters were recruited, five novice raters and four expert raters. They each experienced two conditions. In the first condition, raters classified the severity of 20 case scenarios without access to the tool. In the second condition, raters …
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Detecting Rater Centrality Effect Using Simulation Methods and Rasch Measurement Analysis
… most sensitive to the difference between effect raters and non-effect raters; (2) how accurate (and inaccurate), in terms of Type I error rate and statistical power, each centrality-detection index is in flagging effect raters; and (3) how the features of the data collection design (i.e., the …
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The Relationship Between Rating Strategy and Accuracy of Performance Rating
… 1980), a test of the suggestion that better raters may use different rating processes than poorer raters was implemented. Specifically, this study was designed to determine if more accurate raters use a systematically different rating strategy than less accurate raters. Accuracy, the …
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The role of competing tasks, level of knowledge, and personal prototypes in performance appraisal
… focused on the individual differences among raters and the effect these differences have on recognition accuracy and rating accuracy. Specifically, individual differences were examined through individual constructs (personal prototypes) of different performance levels and individual levels of …
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AN ASSESSMENT OF THE INTRA AND INTER-RATER RELIABILITY OF THE FUNCTIONAL MOVEMENT SCREEN™
… analysis shows that certification status of raters does not affect the reliability, with both certified and non certified raters showing very similar levels of agreement (0.57 & 0.56). In conclusion, a single rater should use the FMS over time to assess subjects in order to maintain reliable …
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Constructing a Field -Specific Integrated Writing Test for an ESL Placement Procedure
… the FACETS analysis found that in general ESL raters were more lenient than field TAs. Only the life sciences TAs' grading was compatible to that of the ESL TAs in terms of rating severity. Raters' survey analysis also revealed that ESL raters were quite different from field TAs in their …
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Leadership Effectiveness: Investigating the Influences of Leader Sex, Gender, and Behaviors on Self and Other Perceptions
… The study also examined third party raters' views of female and male leaders. Videotapes of forty-seven mixed sex groups with randomly appointed male and female leaders were used to examine leader behaviors as well as raters' effectiveness ratings. Leaders' self perceived …
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