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Measures of interrater agreement when each target is evaluated by a different group of raters

  • Giuseppe Bove

Most measures of interrater agreement are defined for ratings regarding a group of targets, each rated by the same group of raters (e.g., the agreement of raters who assess on a rating scale the language proficiency of a corpus of argumentative written texts). However, there are situations in which agreement between ratings regards a group of targets where each target is evaluated by a different group of raters, like for instance when teachers in a school are evaluated by a questionnaire administered to all the pupils (students) in the classroom. In these situations, a first approach is to evaluate the level of agreement for the whole group of targets by the ANOVA one-way random model. A second approach is to apply subject-specific indices of interrater agreement like rWG, which represents the observed variance in ratings compared to the variance of a theoretical distribution representing no agreement (i.e., the null distribution). Both these approaches are not appropriate for ordinal or nominal scales. In this paper, an index is proposed to evaluate the agreement between raters for each single target (subject or object) on an ordinal scale, and to obtain also a global measure of the interrater agreement for the whole group of cases evaluated. The index is not affected by the possible concentration of ratings on a very small number of levels of the scale, like it happens for the measures based on the ANOVA approach, and it does not depend on the definition of a null distributions like rWG. The main features of the proposal will be illustrated in a study for the assessment of learning teacher behavior in classroom collected in a research conducted in 2018 at Roma Tre University.

  • Keywords:
  • Interrater agreement,
  • Ordinal data,
  • Teacher evaluation,
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Giuseppe Bove

Roma Tre University, Italy - ORCID: 0000-0002-2736-5697

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Measures of interrater agreement when each target is evaluated by a different group of raters

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Giuseppe Bove

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10.36253/979-12-215-0106-3.28

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ASA 2022 Data-Driven Decision Making

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Enrico di Bella, Luigi Fabbris, Corrado Lagazio

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2023

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