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  2. Holistic grading - Wikipedia

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    Pooled-rater scoring typically uses three to five independent readers for each sample of writing. Although the scorers work from a common scale of rates, and may have a set of sample papers illustrating that scale ("anchor papers" [20]), usually they have had a minimum of training together. Their scores are simply summed or averaged for the ...

  3. League (unit) - Wikipedia

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    However, the accepted number of Spanish nautical leagues to a degree varied between 14 1/6 to 16 2/3, so in actual practice the length of a Spanish nautical league was 25,733 feet (4.235 modern nautical miles) to 21,874 feet (3.600 modern nautical miles) respectively.

  4. Texas Assessment of Knowledge and Skills - Wikipedia

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    The official logo of the TAKS test. Mainly based on the TAAS test's logo. The Texas Assessment of Knowledge and Skills (TAKS) was the fourth Texas state standardized test previously used in grade 3-8 and grade 9-11 to assess students' attainment of reading, writing, math, science, and social studies skills required under Texas education standards. [1]

  5. Mile - Wikipedia

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    In the United States, the term statute mile formally refers to the survey mile, [3] but for most purposes, the difference of less than 1 ⁄ 8 inch (3.2 mm) between the survey mile and the international mile (1609.344 metres exactly) is insignificant—one international mile is 0.999 998 US survey miles—so statute mile can be used for either.

  6. International English Language Testing System - Wikipedia

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    An Overall Band Score (from 19) A band score (from 19) for each section of the test (Listening, Reading, Writing, and Speaking) The test taker's estimated CEFR level in the English language; Whether IELTS Academic or General Training was completed; Test date and the date that the certificate was signed

  7. Writing assessment - Wikipedia

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    Writing assessment refers to an area of study that contains theories and practices that guide the evaluation of a writer's performance or potential through a writing task. Writing assessment can be considered a combination of scholarship from composition studies and measurement theory within educational assessment . [ 1 ]

  8. English units - Wikipedia

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    Mile: 1.61 km: 5280 feet or 1760 yards. Originally the Roman mile, 1000 paces, later reckoned as 5000 feet, but adjusted to 5280 feet in 1593 to account for the differences introduced to these methods of reckoning by the Composition of Yards and Perches. League: 4.83 km: Notionally an hour's march, but usually reckoned as three miles ...

  9. Information gap task - Wikipedia

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    An information gap task is a technique in language teaching where students are missing information necessary to complete a task or solve a problem, and must communicate with their classmates to fill in the gaps. [1] It is often used in communicative language teaching and task-based language learning.