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Direct linkKarlin, Omar; Karlin, Sayaka – AILA Review, 2023
In the fall semester of 2020, 269 Japanese university students were compared in a quasi-experimental study to determine whether extensive and intensive listening interventions yielded significant gains in L2 listening comprehension. At the beginning of the study, 269 students took a 100-item L2 listening exam, and were randomly placed into an…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Listening Comprehension, Comparative Analysis
Download full textSrisopha, Kwanklao – Education Quarterly Reviews, 2022
The objectives of this research were 1) to study the relationship between student factors, English language instructor factors, and environment factors with students' achievement in English language learning and 2) to develop equations to forecast factors affecting students' achievement in English language learning. The population used in this…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Foreign Countries, Correlation
Goodrich, J. Marc; Lonigan, Christopher J. – Journal of Child Language, 2018
This study evaluated the development of vocabulary knowledge over the course of two academic years, beginning in preschool, in a large sample (N = 944) of language-minority children using scores from single-language vocabulary assessments and conceptual scores. Results indicated that although children began the study with higher raw scores for…
Descriptors: Language Acquisition, Native Language, Second Language Learning, Vocabulary Development
Taylor, Robin T.; Bishop, Pamela R.; Lenhart, Suzanne; Gross, Louis J.; Sturner, Kelly – CBE - Life Sciences Education, 2020
We describe the development and initial validity assessment of the 20-item BioCalculus Assessment (BCA), with the objective of comparing undergraduate life science students' understanding of calculus concepts in different courses with alternative emphases (with and without focus on biological applications). The development process of the BCA…
Descriptors: Test Construction, Mathematics Tests, Calculus, Test Validity
Davidowitz, Bette; Potgieter, Marietjie – International Journal of Science Education, 2016
Research has shown that a high level of content knowledge (CK) is necessary but not sufficient to develop the special knowledge base of expert teachers known as pedagogical content knowledge (PCK). This study contributes towards research to quantify the relationship between CK and PCK in science. In order to determine the proportion of the…
Descriptors: Item Response Theory, Pedagogical Content Knowledge, Organic Chemistry, Science Education
Palacio, Marcela; Gaviria, Sandra; Brown, James Dean – PROFILE: Issues in Teachers' Professional Development, 2016
Frustrations with traditional testing led a group of teachers at the English for adults program at Universidad EAFIT (Colombia) to design tests aligned with the institutional teaching philosophy and classroom practices. This article reports on a study of an item-by-item evaluation of a series of English exams for validity and reliability in an…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
