THE ERROR QUALIFICATION PROBLEM IN THE GRADING OF CREATIVE WRITING TASKS IN THE STATE FINAL ATTESTATION IN RUSSIAN LANGUAGE
THE ERROR QUALIFICATION PROBLEM IN THE GRADING OF CREATIVE WRITING TASKS IN THE STATE FINAL ATTESTATION IN RUSSIAN LANGUAGE

Author(s): Tatiana Alexandrovna Gimranova
Subject(s): Theoretical Linguistics, Eastern Slavic Languages
Published by: Masarykova univerzita nakladatelství
Keywords: state final attestation; error qualification; grammar; orthography;
Summary/Abstract: Since 2001, the Unified State Exam was introduced in Russia as a form of a final examination for the secondary schools, the results of which may be used to apply to the higher education. The problem with which the members of expert commission that reviews Russian language exam's papers encounter, is the correct error qualification problem, since disputes between experts' grades may be the reason of the biased review of examinee's paper. There are several reasons for ambiguous error qualification: different interpretation of errors in so-called school and higher education grammars; mixed linguistics phenomenons that make the precise qualification of error difficult; disputes between linguists about the status of morphological derivation errors etc. Experts, while reviewing papers, are guided primarily by the “Methodical recommendations on grading the completion of essays” made in accordance with the Thematic work plan of Federal Institute of Pedagogical Measurements edited by I.P. Tsybul'ko. However, error identification recommendations do not always contain enough information that can qualify such errors explicitly. The aim of this article is to clarify and concretize some of the error's definitions in order to correctly qualify and minimize them when reviewing creative writing tasks in State Final Attestation in Russian language. The descriptions of the most common errors encountered in examinees' papers – opthographic, grammatic, speech, factual ones etc. - are undertaken. The examples of errors are given and their possible interpretations by the members of expert commission are described.

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