'I will go to my grave fighting for grammar': Exploring the ability of language-trained raters to implement a professionally-relevant rating scale for writing

Ute Knoch; Barbara Ying Zhang; Catherine Elder; Eleanor Flynn; Annemiek Huisman; Robyn Woodward-Kron; Elizabeth Manias; Tim McNamara

Journal article

'I will go to my grave fighting for grammar': Exploring the ability of language-trained raters to implement a professionally-relevant rating scale for writing

Ute Knoch, Barbara Ying Zhang, Catherine Elder, Eleanor Flynn, Annemiek Huisman, Robyn Woodward-Kron, Elizabeth Manias, Tim McNamara

Assessing Writing | ELSEVIER SCI LTD | Published : 2020

DOI: 10.1016/j.asw.2020.100488

University of Melbourne Researchers

Robyn Woodward-Kron Author Medical Education

Annemiek Huisman Author Languages and Linguistics

Tim McNamara Author Languages and Linguistics

Ute Knoch Author Languages and Linguistics

Eleanor Flynn Author Medical Education

Grants

Awarded by Australian Research Council

Funding Acknowledgements

This work was supported by the Australian Research Council [Linkage grant number LP130100171]. We would also like to acknowledge the support of the Cambridge Boxhill Language Assessment, the owner of the Occupational English Test (OET), and all the OET raters who participated in the study.