Language Testing in Asia

Table 2 Means and standard deviations of scores for each criterion

From: Assessing critical thinking through L2 argumentative essays: an investigation of relevant and salient criteria from raters’ perspectives

Criteria	Pre-test		Post-test
Criteria	M	SD	M	SD
Critical thinking skills	3.49	0.69	3.54	0.67
Task achievement	4.89	0.83	5.07	0.70
Coherence & cohesion	4.81	0.64	4.97	0.60
Lexical resource	4.75	0.56	4.87	0.57
Grammatical range & accuracy	4.74	0.57	4.90	0.56

Note. N of cases = 150

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