The Analysis of Online EFL Composition Rating System in China

Abstract

The major advantage of analytic rating is to give learners feedback and provide useful diagnostic information and about learners’ writing abilities. Automated Essay Scoring (AES) is at present popular for EFL assessment and rating. This paper makes a comparison of two major high-stake large-scale English tests in terms of writing subtests and argues that AES is a bridge connecting the needs of efficient rating and the minimum negative washback of the two tests. The paper takes Bingo online rating system as an example and analyses its reliability and validity.