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SCORING BEST PLUS(See also Section III, pp. 1-6, in the Test Administrator Guide) If an examinee answers the question correctly in a language other than English, what score do I give? In order to standardize scoring procedures and be fair to all examinees, a score of 0 is to be given for an examinee response in a language other than English. Examinees can be prompted once with "English, please," to remind them to respond in English. If they respond in English, that response should be scored appropriately (and if as they had not responded in another language). What if the examinee doesn't know what is going on in a picture cue? Score the student according to what they are able to produce. They don't have to be able to name the exact action going on in the picture. Simple descriptions will suffice. The picture cue questions are designed only to elicit words, phrases, and simple sentences. For example, if all the examinee says is, "I don't know what they are doing," then you would simply score that response appropriately and move on to the next question. What if the examinee doesn't understand the command"Tell me about this picture" ? Can I say "What do you see in the picture"? No. Remember, a question may be repeated once but is not to be rephrased in any way. If a student still does not understand the prompt after one repetition, score all areas "0" and move on to the next question. Can I get more help in fine-tuning my scoring? Yes. BEST Plus staff have developed the BEST Plus Scoring Refresher Toolkit to be used by both groups and individual test administrators to practice and refine their scoring skills learned in the initial training workshop. Please click here to learn more about the Toolkit. |
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