Work

Four kinds of careful work

Each sample asks the same question: when two careful people judge the same thing, do they reach the same answer? All material is public or invented.

01 · Define quality
Start here

From Vague Guideline to Consistent Rubric

Raters often get one line of guidance. I took such a line, wrote seven responses that split careful raters, and built the guideline, rubric, edge-case map, and calibration examples that give each response exactly one score.

Guideline writing, rubric design, edge-case analysis, rater calibration, multilingual evaluation (German, Swedish)

Covers of the ten-book series Reading and Writing Practice Questions for the New Digital SAT, by Dr. Stefan Huber
02 · Test precisely
Published

Writing Test Items With Exactly One Defensible Answer

A test item is only useful if exactly one answer survives close scrutiny. Two sample items, each with an explanation for every answer choice, and the method behind a ten-book series of 330 items.

Assessment design, distractor analysis, rationale writing, quality auditing, rubric design

03 · Listen closely
With audio

Transcribing Dialect Speech as It Is Actually Spoken

Four recordings of my own voice in Upper Swabian, Standard German, and English, and a verbatim transcript that shows where my dialect drifts toward the standard instead of hiding it.

Verbatim transcription, dialect annotation, speech recording, German, Swabian, English

Crosstalk showing a debate video with two speaker badges at once, next to its speakers panel
04 · Build tools
Coming soon

Crosstalk: A Tool for Reviewing Who Speaks When

My own desktop app for the moment transcripts fall apart: people talking over each other. Every speaker turn sits on one timeline, so overlaps and handovers get checked instead of guessed.

Diarization review, transcription tooling, annotation workflow design, building with AI assistance