Anchor tests

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Anchor tests AleAssessment

1. A common set of items administered with each of two or more different forms of a test for the purpose of equating the scores obtained on these forms. 2. "Anchor papers provide a connection between a rubric narrative and student writing, and an example of what writing at a certain score of the rubric should look like." (From: the REEP Writing Assessment Trainer's Manual.) (see also Benchmark tasks; Benchmarking.)

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