Pursuing Fair Writing Assessment: Halo Effects in Primary School EFL Writing

• In Event: Writing Assessments and Rater Effects

Abstract

Using a corpus of young EFL learners’ texts, we analyzed which aspects of text quality influence pre-service teachers’ assessment of other criteria (halo effects). Orthography, vocabulary, and punctuation revealed significant halo effects on various criteria. Communicative effect, complexity and correctness of syntax and grammar are determined by other text qualities.

Authors

• Ruth Trüb, FHNW School of Education

• Julian Lohmann, Kiel University

• Jens Möller, Kiel University

• Stefan Daniel Keller, Zurich University of Teacher Education