More Evidence of Low Inter-Rater Reliability of a High-Stakes Performance Assessment of Teacher Candidates
Scott A. Lyness
Abstract:From 2010 to 2015, our school of education used the Performance Assessment for California Teachers (PACT), a summative assessment designed to assess preservice teacher competence. Candidate portfolios were uploaded to an evaluation portal, and trained evaluators assigned a final score of Pass or Fail to the work samples. Three consensus estimates of inter-rater reliability of 181 candidate portfolios that were either double- or triple-scored were computed. Two chance-corrected estimates of inter-rater reliabil… Show more
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