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The Linguistic Association of Korea Journal, 12(3), 151-170. This experimental study investigated the seriousness of rater's subjectivity in an oral test. The researcher analyzed the verbal test results of English native speakers, who are assumed to be reliable and competent raters only because they are from English speaking countries. The researcher correlated the raters' and inter-raters' scores to those of the examinees' ranks, and investigated the English native speakers' scoring tendencies in the process of their evaluation. From comparing the statistics for the discrepancies between the examinees' scores and rankings, this study admonishes untrained evaluators to be aware of subjectivity, and also suggests that subjective tests should not be used for examinees' rank order even though the results are statistically very significant.


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rater, examinee, rater's subjectivity, rank order, oral test, subjective test, evaluation, rater training