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Direct linkAvvisati, Francesco; Givord, Pauline – OECD Publishing, 2021
This paper compares the learning gain over one year of schooling among 15-year-old students in Austria and Scotland (United Kingdom). Common metrics for reading, mathematics and science learning, as established by the Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA), are used. In order to overcome the limitations of a cross-sectional,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Comparative Education, Academic Achievement, Achievement Gains
Shohamy, Elana – Language and Intercultural Communication, 2013
While much of the work in language testing is concerned with constructing quality tests in order to measure language knowledge in reliable and valid ways, there has been a significant movement in language testing research that examines tests in the context of their use in education and society. This line of research exits from the notion that…
Descriptors: Language Tests, Testing, Evaluation Research, Ideology
Peer reviewedMcQueen, Joy; Mendelovits, Juliette – Language Testing, 2003
Discusses steps taken to attain cultural relevance and appropriateness in the reading literacy construct, and in the stimulus materials and items that operationalize it. Explains the influence of multilingual considerations on the development of the reading literacy assessment instrument and notes psychometric procedures used to maximize the…
Descriptors: Cross Cultural Studies, Language Tests, Literacy, Psychometrics
