Signing up judges
Choosing the number of judgements for each judge
The more judgements that are made by judges, the more reliable (precise) your results will be.
As a general rule, we would suggest carrying out 10 judgements per candidate, spread across all of your judges.
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When you are given a judging link, you will be directed to this page.
If audio feedback is being collected for your task, you can click the "Start Recording" button to test the microphone of your device.
Fill out the Email Address field then click "Submit" to start judging.
Here is a good look at the page once signed in successfully as a judge.
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Here's how to do it:
Log in to your NMM account.
Open the relevant task.
Click Run judging session to access the Judges page as shown on the screenshot below:
Tick the tiny box before a judge's email address to acFew readersReporting a safeguarding issue
To report an issue with a script you encounter while judging, please click the tab between the decisions button,
Choose the better script button
specify if it's the script on the left or right side,
left or right
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When you take part in tasks that are moderated across other tasks and schools, a judge will be making moderation judgements as well as judgements on their particular task as part of their allocation.
For example, in our national assessments such as Assessing Primary Writing (APW) or Improving Secondary Writing (ISW), a judge will judge scripts from other schools as well as from their own school. In APW, every 5th judgement is a moderation judgement of scripts from other schools; for ISW it is eFew readersFeedback on judges
Judging Feedback
After you have set your judges off judging, you will want to look at how they getting along in their judgements. This article explains how to review their progress.
At any point during the judging process, for a given task, select the Run judging session option, and then, just to make sure the judging statistics are up to date, press the 'Refresh Scores' button:
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Judge infit
The infit for a judge is a measure of how far a judge agrees with the other judges in how they make their decisions. High values may indicate disagreement, but care must be taken with infit as it is sensitive to the nature of what is being judged, how many judges are judging, and how many decisions each judge makes. Our empirical data suggests the following values.
Primary school judging (short texts, lots of judges)Some readersExploring the decisions made by each judge
Exploring the judgements made by a given judge
Here is how to explore more deeply the judgements made by a particular judge
To explore the judgements that were made by a particular judge more deeply, we can look at the decisions made by that judge, whose scripts they were comparing, and the probability that the decision was 'correct'.
After the judging is completed, go to the Run judging session section and then highlight the judge you want to look at by clicking on the box next toFew readers