The HDB chapter has a lot of interesting and practical things of assessment in second language teaching (it's also ironical that we are reading it the last week of the semester, I find).
It seems that everything is clear with standardized tests, except for how exactly to interpret the results, but still, if you are more or less familiar with the scale/system, the news that someone got a 575 on paper based TOEFL will actually make sense to you.
Something I have been struggling with this semester is assessing/grading larger and more open-ended items, like essays. Even with well-defined criteria there still is a lot of opportunities for the rater's personality to act out. I was having a somewhat hard time grading some of the essays that my students submitted at some point, mostly because the stories were overly personal.
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You might want to guide them in terms of your expectations. That might work.
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