[Bestplus] Scoring question

[Brown, Teresa]

Hi everyone,
 
I'm still uncomfortable scoring some, not all, one or two word answers as a 3.  It may be fine with a picture, but what about "me, school" for an answer to 'tell me something about what you do everyday'?  In the training, the example with all the pronouns missing is scored a 2 even though it is perfectly comprehensible.  How is this different?  It seems that we are still doing a lot of filling in.
 
Lynda's example of answering "Massachusetts" is qualitatively different because that's something a native English speaker would say.   "Me, school", or "eggs, store, woman" is not conversational English, so I would like more clarification for the Communication scores at these very low levels.
 
Many thanks, 
 
Teresa Brown
ESOL Coordinator
Community Learning Center
19 Brookline Street, Cambridge, MA  02139
 
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Subject: Re: [Bestplus] Scoring question
 
I agree with you on this Janet.  Often the student who responds to a picture with a  one word answer such as "eggs" points to the object.  In that case, It becomes perfectly acceptable to a score a 3.  I think that the student without the pointing gesture should still score a 3, as long as he/she is understandable.

Stacey
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