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rater

rater

4 4.6
A person who gives scores to work like tests or essays
  • noun
  • /ˈreɪtər/
translation icon : evaluador
  • To help assess researcher category reliability, both inter-rater and intra-rater exact agreement calculations were used.
  • inter-rater
  • rater reliability
  • two raters

And we want, what we want to do is, is make it so that each rater sees each patient only once, maybe twice, but but not tracking them through the study.

Examples

  • Examination scoring is conducted by teams of two qualified and trained raters to ensure inter-rater reliability.

    Academic text (2011)
  • We also recommend that if adult ratings are employed, raters should be blind to the treatment condition.

    Academic text (2008)
  • I never really thought of that, that maybe they are better raters than than others when it comes to humans.

  • The rating task was explained individually to each rater, and predeveloped practice ratings were provided.

    Academic text (1993)
  • Although each study included a different group of raters, all raters were drawn from the same population.

    Academic text (2013)
  • Two doctoral students served as independent raters on the coding of each report.

    Academic text (1999)
  • Any large differences were resolved by the raters through a reevaluation of the stories in question.

    Academic text (1999)
  • All three then graded 30 additional summaries, after which they reached an inter-rater reliability of .70.

    Academic text (2011)
  • The inter-rater reliability of the two independent raters was .77 when collapsed across content, grammar, and structure.

    Academic text (2011)
  • The teacher asked the rater to evaluate the student projects based on creativity and originality.

Synonyms

critic
vsrater
314 3.2

A person who gives opinions about art, books, films, or music, often as a job

assigns measurable scores rather than mainly offering opinions
grader
vsrater
  • US
178 3.7

A person who gives grades to students' work

assigns scores in many contexts, not only academics
reviewer
vsrater
118 3.1

A person who reads and checks the quality of a paper, proposal, or code

assigns scores or numeric judgments instead of mainly commenting
judge
vsrater
  • Specialized
19 6.5

A program that automatically tests and scores code

is a human who evaluates and assigns scores by judgment
music critic
vsrater
  • Literature
11 3.7

A person who writes reviews of music performances or recordings

provides numeric or formal scores rather than professional reviews
evaluator
vsrater
7 4.3

A person who judges how good or useful something is

focuses more on giving scores than broad assessment
assessor
vsrater
3 4.3

A person who judges how good or valuable something is

performs scoring across contexts rather than formal valuation
judger
vsrater
6.2

A person who gives scores and feedback in a competition

assigns scores without deciding final outcomes
interrater
vsrater
  • Specialized
8.0

A person who scores or judges the same work on their own

evaluates items but not necessarily alongside others

Compounds

second-rater
  • Offensive
1 8.2

A person who is not as good as others at their work

first-rater
  • Neologism
7.5

A person or thing of very high quality

third-rater
  • Informal
9.2

A person or thing of low quality that people think is not good

Surface Forms

rater singular
raters plural

Morphology

rater = rate (transparent) = rate + er

Formed by productive agentive suffix '-er' attached to the verb 'rate', so the meaning 'person who rates' is directly deducible.

Etymology

Rater comes from the verb rate plus the ending -er, meaning 'one who rates'. The verb rate comes from an old Latin word for 'to calculate', so a rater is someone who gives a score or judgment.