封面
致谢
英文摘要
中文摘要
目录
Chapter 1 Introduction
1.1 Rationale of the study
1.2 Research questions
1.3 Overview of the Thesis
Chapter 2 Literature Review
2.1 Nature of writing ability
2.2 Writing assessment
2.2.1 Designing writing tasks
2.2.2 Large-scale writing assessment
2.3 Rating approach
2.3.1 Rating scale
2.3.2 Rater effect
2.4 Statistical model:MFRM to investigate rating outcomes
2.4.1 Introduction to Many-Facet Rasch Model (MFRM)
2.4.2 Application of MFRM in writing assessment
Chapter 3 Methodology
3.1 Introduction
3.2 Context of the study
3.3 Data collection
3.4 Data analysis
Chapter 4 Results and Discussion
4.1 Rating Quality of analytic and holistic approach
4.1.1 Contestant ability estimates
4.1.2 Rater severity and self-consistency
4.1.3 Scale functioning
4.1.4 Bias interaction
4.1.5 Genre effect
4.2 Analytic rating criteria
4.2.1 Contestant ability estimates
4.2.2 Analytic criteria difficulty
4.2.3 Rater-criterion bias interaction
4.2.4 Genre effect
4.3 The integrated rating approach
4.3.1 To combine the analytic and the holistic scale
4.3.2 To add the foreign raters
4.3.3 To integrate the two writing tasks
Chapter 5 Conclusion
5.1 Major findings
5.2 Limitations
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