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Ute Knoch; Jason Fan – Language Testing, 2024
While several test concordance tables have been published, the research underpinning such tables has rarely been examined in detail. This study aimed to survey the publically available studies or documentation underpinning the test concordance tables of the providers of four major international language tests, all accepted by the Australian…
Descriptors: Language Tests, English, Test Validity, Item Analysis
Knoch, Ute; Deygers, Bart; Khamboonruang, Apichat – Language Testing, 2021
Rating scale development in the field of language assessment is often considered in dichotomous ways: It is assumed to be guided either by expert intuition or by drawing on performance data. Even though quite a few authors have argued that rating scale development is rarely so easily classifiable, this dyadic view has dominated language testing…
Descriptors: Rating Scales, Test Construction, Language Tests, Test Use
Knoch, Ute; Chapelle, Carol A. – Language Testing, 2018
Argument-based validation requires test developers and researchers to specify what is entailed in test interpretation and use. Doing so has been shown to yield advantages (Chapelle, Enright, & Jamieson, 2010), but it also requires an analysis of how the concerns of language testers can be conceptualized in the terms used to construct a…
Descriptors: Test Validity, Language Tests, Evaluation Research, Rating Scales
Wind, Stefanie A.; Peterson, Meghan E. – Language Testing, 2018
The use of assessments that require rater judgment (i.e., rater-mediated assessments) has become increasingly popular in high-stakes language assessments worldwide. Using a systematic literature review, the purpose of this study is to identify and explore the dominant methods for evaluating rating quality within the context of research on…
Descriptors: Language Tests, Evaluators, Evaluation Methods, Interrater Reliability
Elicited Imitation as a Measure of Second Language Proficiency: A Narrative Review and Meta-Analysis
Yan, Xun; Maeda, Yukiko; Lv, Jing; Ginther, April – Language Testing, 2016
Elicited imitation (EI) has been widely used to examine second language (L2) proficiency and development and was an especially popular method in the 1970s and early 1980s. However, as the field embraced more communicative approaches to both instruction and assessment, the use of EI diminished, and the construct-related validity of EI scores as a…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Language Proficiency, Meta Analysis, Effect Size