The study investigates the reliability and user feedback about rubrics to evaluate English – Vietnamese consecutive interpreting tests taken by undergraduates at VNU-ULIS created Tran Do (2022). Five raters two experienced three novice ones independently rated ten different provided their on rubrics. results reveal newly is mostly considered user-friendly practical application for evaluation. O...

Personality is an inherent rater’s characteristic influencing rating severity, but very few studies examined their relationship and the findings were inconclusive. This study aimed to re-investigate between raters’ personality severity with more control on relevant variables reliable analysis of severity. Female novice raters ( n = 28) from a demographically homogeneous background recruited rat...

Traditional psychometric approaches towards assessment tend to focus exclusively on quantitative properties of assessment outcomes. This may limit more meaningful educational approaches towards workplace-based assessment (WBA). Cognition-based models of WBA argue that assessment outcomes are determined by cognitive processes by raters which are very similar to reasoning, judgment and decision m...

BACKGROUND Successful hip reconstruction to restore the normal hip biomechanics requires precise placement of implants. Computer assisted navigation in total hip arthroplasty has been proposed to have the potential to help achieve a high accuracy in implant placement. The goal of the study was to evaluate the accuracy of an imageless computer navigation system on cadavers and to validate a non-...

Prosody has been demonstrated to be a key component in second language acquisition and assessment. This study analyzes raters’ ability to distinguish different levels of L1 and L2 prosody when listening to filtered speech. The goal of this study is to investigate how many levels of prosodic proficiency can be made when it is isolated in a filtered speech condition. An experiment was conducted w...

The study investigated the effects of three commonly employed rater training procedures on rating accuracy novice ESL essay raters. first procedure involved going through a set benchmarked scripts with scores, second assessing before viewing scores. third was combination former and latter. A pre, post delayed post-experimental research design employed. Data were collected before, immediately af...

BACKGROUND Effective teamwork has proven to be crucial for providing safe care. The performance of emergencies in general and cardiac arrest situations in particular, has been criticized for primarily focusing on the individual's technical skills and too little on the teams' performance of non-technical skills. The aim of the study was to explore intensive care nurses' team performance in a sim...