Farewell to Holistic Scoring?

Scoring reading-to-write (RTW) tasks is known to be more challenging than independent tasks given that raters should attend to features of source use, in addition to other writing skills. Holistic scales have been traditionally used with this task type; however, analytic scales have recently received increasing attention. While research has looked into score generalizability of RTW tasks, few studies have addressed the impact of rating scales on...