Abstract Adaptive Comparative Judgment (ACJ), an approach to the assessment of open-
ended problems which utilizes a series of comparisons to produce a standardized score …

This publication summarises available evidence on writing and writing instruction. While the
literature on writing instruction is modest compared with reading, and the quality of the …

This study explored the relationship between linguistic features and the rated quality of
letters of application (LAs) and argumentative essays (AEs) composed in English by …

This research aims to promote our understanding of feedback engagement processes in
writing tasks using a combination of online and offline measures, including eye-tracking …

Writing assessment is a key feature of most education systems, yet there are limitations with
traditional methods of assessing writing involving rubrics. In contrast, comparative …

In the past years, comparative assessment approaches have gained ground as a viable
method to assess text quality. Instead of providing absolute scores to a text as in holistic or …

This mixed-method quasi-experimental study examined whether metaconceptual grammar
teaching impacts on (a) students' L1 grammatical understanding,(b) their 'blind'use of …

Recent studies of proficiency measurement and reporting practices in applied linguists have
revealed widespread use of unsatisfactory practices such as the use of proxy measures of …

“Personally I think that grammar is a way to attain Beauty. When you speak, or read, or write,
you can tell if you've said or read or written a fine sentence. You can recognise a well-turned …

Educational researchers often need to construct precise and reliable measurement scales of
complex and varied representations such as participants' written work, videoed lesson …