IELTS examiner certification - writing

 

Stringent quality assurance mechanisms are in place to ensure examiners are well-qualified, effectively trained, monitored and certificated. Research includes aspects relating to:

  • • assessment procedures
  • • rating processes
  • • examiner gender, attitudes and behaviour
  • • examiner training
  • • handwritten versus word-processed essays.

 

 

The reports below covers writing

 

Title Researchers Title
An investigation of examiner rating of coherence and cohesion in the IELTS Writing Task 2 Fiona Cotton, University of New South Wales, Australia; Kate Wilson and The University of Canberra, Australia
IELTS RR 12 2011
The effect of standardisation training on rater judgements for the IELTS Writing module Clare Furneaux and Mark Rignall, The University of Reading SiLT 19 2007
Assessing the value of bias analysis feedback to raters for the IELTS Writing module Barry O’Sullivan and Mark Rignall, The University of Reading SiLT 19 2007
A longitudinal study of the effects of feedback on raters of the IELTS Writing module Barry O’Sullivan and Mark Rignall, The University of Reading SiLT 19 2007
Legibility and the rating of second language writing: An investigation of the rating of handwritten and word-processed IELTS Task 2 essays Annie Brown, The University of Melbourne IELTS RR 4 2003
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