Score sentence tests by summing each correctly translated sentence's scale value rather than raw number correct¶

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Evidence · 2 claims (1 for, 1 mixed) · 2 studies (1 causal, 1 design), q2 · 0 of 2 report an effect size · 2 claims rest on one study

Description¶

The article recommends weighting each sentence by its scale value: "A better method of scoring is to give for each sentence correctly translated its scale value and his score would then be the sum of these values." Scores can be expressed as percentages to conform to school rating practice, and any combination of sentences may be used at the teacher's discretion, with the perfect score being the total of the chosen sentences' scale values.

Design Implications¶

Context¶

Requirements¶

• The scale values of the sentences used must be known from the printed tables
• Teachers may substitute any combination of sentences and compute its total scale value

Constraints¶

• A simpler step-count method is also described, in which a pupil is credited with a passed sentence but penalized for missing an earlier one

Target Learners¶

• first- to fourth-year secondary school Latin pupils

Target Learning Goals¶

• measuring accuracy of Latin translation

Affordances¶

• Pe Sentence Scaling Method Latin

Claims¶

• Multidimensional IRT scores that account for latent variable covariances over time produce better recovery of growth parameters in longitudinal growth models than sum scores and other IRT approaches [+W]
• Summed scoring and IRT pattern scoring produce very similar scale score means and failing rates within any equating procedure [~W]

Related Strategies¶

• Handle incorrect completions by giving full credit for correct or as-good-as-correct answers and part credit for answers that give sense but are not strictly correct

Examples¶

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Key Sources¶

• Henmon, V. A. C. (1917). The Measurement of Ability in Latin. Part II. Sentence Tests. The Journal of Educational Psychology. https://eric.ed.gov/?q=Henmon+Measurement+of+Ability+in+Latin+Sentence+Tests