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Download full textStewart, Gail; Strachan, Andrea – TESL Canada Journal, 2022
Since its implementation in 2004, the Canadian English Language Benchmark Assessment for Nurses (CELBAN) has been accepted as evidence of language ability for licensure of internationally educated nurses (IENs) in Canada. This article focuses on the complexities of sustaining an occupation-specific assessment over time. The authors reference the…
Descriptors: Language Tests, English for Special Purposes, Benchmarking, Nurses
Direct linkAlavi, Seyyed Mohammad; Akbarian, Is'haaq – System: An International Journal of Educational Technology and Applied Linguistics, 2012
This study aims to examine a) whether vocabulary knowledge, captured in the Vocabulary Levels Test (VLT), is related to the performance on the five types of reading comprehension items tested in TOEFL, i.e., Guessing Vocabulary, Main Idea, Inference, Reference, and Stated Detail; and b) whether EFL learners with different levels of vocabulary…
Descriptors: Knowledge Level, Test Items, English (Second Language), Reading Comprehension
Peer reviewedBrown, James Dean – Language Testing, 1999
Explored the relative contributions to Test of English as a Foreign Language (TOEFL) score dependability of various numbers of persons, items, subtests, languages, and their various interactions. Sampled 15,000 test takers, 1000 each from 15 different language backgrounds. (Author/VWL)
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Language Tests, Second Language Learning, Student Characteristics
Strong, Gregory – Thought Currents in English Literature, 1995
This paper traces developments in educational psychology and measurement that led to the Test of English as a Foreign Language (TOEFL) and the test of English for International Communication (TOEIC) and the application of educational measurement terms such as validity and reliability to testing. Use of a table of specifications for planning…
Descriptors: Cloze Procedure, Difficulty Level, English (Second Language), Foreign Countries
