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Taghizadeh Vahed, Sharareh; Alavi, Sayyed Mohammad – Language Assessment Quarterly, 2020
The interaction between language proficiency and discipline-related background knowledge is an important feature of LSAP (Languages for Specific Academic Purposes) tests and is viewed as a necessity in these tests unlike general purpose language tests which try to diminish the potential effect of discipline-related knowledge. Therefore, variables…
Descriptors: English for Academic Purposes, Language Tests, Reading Tests, Reading Comprehension
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Priyanka, Priyanka Gupta; Mehrotra, Deepti – Journal of Information Technology Education: Innovations in Practice, 2022
Aim/Purpose: This paper focuses on designing and implementing the rubric for objective JAVA programming assessments. An unsupervised learning approach was used to group learners based on their performance in the results obtained from the rubric, reflecting their learning ability. Background: Students' learning outcomes have been evaluated…
Descriptors: Objective Tests, Outcomes of Education, Scoring Rubrics, Programming Languages
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Rahmawati, Laili Etika; Suwandi, Sarwiji; Saddhono, Kundharu; Setiawan, Budhi – International Journal of Instruction, 2019
Evaluation on the foreign student's competence of Indonesian language is required to assess their achievement. This research aimed to identify the difficulty level of test instrument, analyze the difference of foreign students' competence for Indonesian language and to analyze the correlation of students' competence over various objective test…
Descriptors: Indonesian, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Scores
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Aydogan, Hakan; Akbarov, Azamat – Acta Didactica Napocensia, 2018
The study aims to determine the magnitude of the correlation between subjective estimates and objective measures of English competence among Turkish students in an Agean Region State university. The sample includes 210 participants (100 females and 110 males), whose average age was 20.99. Subjective estimates included overall levels of English…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Vocabulary Development
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Jarvis, Scott – Language Testing, 2017
The present study discusses the relevance of measures of lexical diversity (LD) to the assessment of learner corpora. It also argues that existing measures of LD, many of which have become specialized for use with language corpora, are fundamentally measures of lexical repetition, are based on an etic perspective of language, and lack construct…
Descriptors: Computational Linguistics, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Native Speakers
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Gan, Zhengdong – Language Assessment Quarterly, 2012
This study, which is part of a large-scale study of using objective measures to validate assessment rating scales and assessment tasks in a high-profile school-based assessment initiative in Hong Kong, examined how grammatical complexity measures relate to task type and analytic evaluations of students' speaking proficiency in a classroom-based…
Descriptors: Validity, Verbs, Grammar, Second Language Learning