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Abdullah Alamer; Ahmed Al Khateeb; Abdulrahman Alshabeb – Language Assessment Quarterly, 2025
This study introduces the first Arabic Vocabulary Levels Test (Arabic-VLT), created for foreign learners of Arabic. We present compelling evidence to substantiate its validity and reliability. The Arabic-VLT was developed according to five levels, beginning with the most frequently used words (Level 1) to the least frequently used ones (Level 5),…
Descriptors: Arabic, Vocabulary Development, Test Construction, Second Language Learning
Mahmoud M. S. Abdallah – Online Submission, 2025
This guide offers a comprehensive handbook to scientific research methodology and experimental design, specifically for novice MA and PhD researchers in Education and Language Learning (TESOL/TEFL). It establishes scientific research as a systematic, objective inquiry focused on identifying cause-and-effect relationships through empirical data.…
Descriptors: Scientific Research, Research Methodology, Research Design, Second Language Learning
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Benjawan Plengkham; Sonthaya Rattanasak; Patsawut Sukserm – Journal of Education and Learning, 2025
This academic article provides the essential steps for designing an effective English questionnaire in social science research, with a focus on ensuring clarity, cultural sensitivity and ethical integrity. Developed from key insights from related studies, it outlines potential practice in questionnaire design, item development and the importance…
Descriptors: Guidelines, Test Construction, Questionnaires, Surveys
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Zhang, Dongbo; Koda, Keiko – Asian-Pacific Journal of Second and Foreign Language Education, 2017
Word Associates Format (WAF) tests are often used to measure second language learners' vocabulary depth with a focus on their network knowledge. Yet, there were often many variations in the specific forms of the tests and the ways they were used, which tended to have an impact on learners' response behaviors and, more importantly, the psychometric…
Descriptors: Language Tests, Vocabulary Development, Second Language Learning, Test Construction
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Williams, Marian E.; Sando, Lara; Soles, Tamara Glen – Journal of Psychoeducational Assessment, 2014
Cognitive assessment of young children contributes to high-stakes decisions because results are often used to determine eligibility for early intervention and special education. Previous reviews of cognitive measures for young children highlighted concerns regarding adequacy of standardization samples, steep item gradients, and insufficient floors…
Descriptors: Intelligence Tests, Decision Making, High Stakes Tests, Eligibility
Stansfield, Charles W.; And Others – 1992
This report describes the development, construction, and validation of the Preliminary Chinese Proficiency Test (Pre-CPT), a standardized, nationally-normed test of listening and reading comprehension for beginning-level native English-speaking learners of Chinese as a second language. The Pre-CPT was designed as a lower-level version of the…
Descriptors: Chinese, Higher Education, Language Proficiency, Language Tests
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Miller, Jon F.; And Others – Topics in Language Disorders, 1992
A project to make computerized language sample analysis available to Wisconsin public school speech-language pathologists is described. The project developed the Systematic Analysis of Language Transcripts computer program as a standard analysis procedure, created a reference database of language samples, and developed indices of developmental…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Computer Oriented Programs, Diagnostic Tests, Elementary Secondary Education
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Brebner, Ann; And Others – Computers and Education, 1984
Presents an experiment which assessed the effectiveness of teaching written French to university students with computer assisted instruction (CAI). Results indicate that the CAI drill and practice lessons didn't effect any greater achievement improvement than ordinary instruction, but students had favorable attitudes toward CAI. (MBR)
Descriptors: Computer Assisted Instruction, Courseware, Drills (Practice), Evaluation Methods
Fischer, Sara; Strum, Irene – 1986
A 5-item rating scale was developed for the New York City schools to determine eligibility for English as a Second Language instruction in Category C exceptional students exempted from testing. Most students follow a curriculum of daily living skills, and many are nonverbal. The test was piloted with 163 students including severely, trainable, and…
Descriptors: Autism, Bilingual Students, Cutting Scores, Elementary Secondary Education
Cziko, Gary A.; Lin, Nien-Hsuan Jennifer – 1984
This study used classical psychometric, latent trait, and nonparametric approaches to analyze 13- and 14-item scales of English language proficiency. Tests of English listening comprehension (dictation) and reading ("copytest") were constructed by modifying the standard dictation testing procedure to create items of text segments which…
Descriptors: Adults, English (Second Language), Foreign Students, Higher Education
Yap, Kim Onn – 1985
This study investigated the relationship between a test's psychometric characteristics and school staff satisfaction with its use in programmatic activities. The Inventory of Test Use Satisfaction (IOTUS) was used to evaluate two individually administered oral language production tests used in Hawaii's Students of Limited English Proficiency…
Descriptors: Attitude Measures, Educational Testing, Elementary Secondary Education, English (Second Language)
Huntley, Renee M.; Carlson, James E. – 1986
This study compared student performance on language-usage test items presented in two different formats: as discrete sentences and as items embedded in passages. American College Testing (ACT) Program's Assessment experimental units were constructed that presented 40 items in the two different formats. Results suggest item presentation may not…
Descriptors: College Entrance Examinations, Difficulty Level, Goodness of Fit, Item Analysis
Carlson, Sybil B.; Camp, Roberta – 1985
This paper reports on Educational Testing Service research studies investigating the parameters critical to reliability and validity in both the direct and indirect writing ability assessment of higher education applicants. The studies involved: (1) formulating an operational definition of writing competence; (2) designing and pretesting writing…
Descriptors: College Entrance Examinations, Computer Assisted Testing, English (Second Language), Essay Tests
Trollip, Stanley R.; Brown, Gary – Journal of Computer-Based Instruction, 1987
Discusses ways of designing software to minimize the problems associated with translating the users interface from English into a foreign language. The Examiner, a test development and delivery system that was translated from English into Dutch, is used as an example, and both its design and its implementation are described. (LRW)
Descriptors: Computer Assisted Testing, Courseware, Dutch, English
Duran, Richard P. – 1985
This paper reviews eight major problem areas concerning testing practices of interest to professionals practicing psychology in the schools. These areas, identified by the Task Force on Psychology in the Schools of the American Psychological Association, include: (1) test use; (2) diagnostic versus placement tests; (3) informed parental consent…
Descriptors: Academic Ability, Cognitive Measurement, Communicative Competence (Languages), Decision Making
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