Re: the Underground of "Professional" writing assessment graders

[Bob Schaeffer <bobschaeffer@EARTHLINK.NET>]

  All AP exams are partly multiple-choice, and partly "constructed
response" (eg essays, problem solving, etc.) except for Studio Art,
which is a 100% performance exam (a de factor exhibition of a sort).
  ETS brings hundreds/thousands of high school teachers to New Jersey to
do the grading -- the technical reports I have read indicate that there
is pretty  rigorous training and that grading reliability is monitored
on an ongoing basis.
   This does not imply that the AP curriculum or tests are perfect from
FairTest's perspective -- just that ETS has devoted the resources to
create a reasonably professional grading system. Of course, this is
reflected in the high cost of each exam.

Bob Schaeffer, Public Education Director
FairTest: National Center for Fair & Open Testing

Karen Canty wrote:
>
> Since we're on the discussion of who "grades" tests, can someone tell me how
> AP exams are scored?  Who does it? Does the college board hire people?  If
> so, what kind of people? I have proctored AP exams for our high school for
> the past few years and they are certainly NOT just bubble in multiple choice
> tests (some portions of them are but certainly not all) so...
>

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