rater
- noun
- /ˈreɪtər/
- 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.
- 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
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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.
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I never really thought of that, that maybe they are better raters than than others when it comes to humans.
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The rating task was explained individually to each rater, and predeveloped practice ratings were provided.
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Although each study included a different group of raters, all raters were drawn from the same population.
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Two doctoral students served as independent raters on the coding of each report.
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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.
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The inter-rater reliability of the two independent raters was .77 when collapsed across content, grammar, and structure.
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The teacher asked the rater to evaluate the student projects based on creativity and originality.
Synonyms
A person who gives opinions about art, books, films, or music, often as a job
A person who gives grades to students' work
A person who reads and checks the quality of a paper, proposal, or code
A program that automatically tests and scores code
A person who writes reviews of music performances or recordings
A person who judges how good or useful something is
A person who judges how good or valuable something is
A person who gives scores and feedback in a competition
A person who scores or judges the same work on their own
Compounds
Surface Forms
Morphology
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.