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Necessity and Technical Directions of Improving Scoring Rubrics of Writing in College Entrance Examination

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The coding analysis of the composition and test data from test takers of the college entrance examination shows that the convergence tendency comes from both rating rubrics and the behavior of the raters. On the one hand, the ambiguity of the rating rubrics gives raters much more freedom to evaluate the essay; while the Chinese aesthetic characteristics, on the other hand, tend to lead those raters to a consistent understanding of essays. Therefore, before clearly defining the scoring features, the problem of convergence tendency in the rating process cannot be solved completely by using the analytic, instead of the holistic scoring method

In order to improve the scoring rubrics, this paper proposes three technical directions: (1) based on the theories of validity, axiology and washback effect, develop style-oriented scoring rubrics and explore the consistency between evaluation model of college entrance examination and teaching of reading and writing; (2) with philosophical concerns of instrumental and value rationality, develop scoring rubrics with Chinese characteristics and refine the Chinese language characteristics in composition for the integration of the holistic and analytic scoring methods; (3) based on empirical research, describe and refine the scoring characteristics of “citation” and distinguish citations as examples from as literary competence. With a clearly defined principles of citations as examples, explore how the content from textbook reading passages and recommended books may be employed as source of citations, and thus evaluate the consistency between teaching and assessment.