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Chan, Kinnie Kin Yee; Bond, Trevor; Yan, Zi – Language Testing, 2023
We investigated the relationship between the scores assigned by an Automated Essay Scoring (AES) system, the Intelligent Essay Assessor (IEA), and grades allocated by trained, professional human raters to English essay writing by instigating two procedures novel to written-language assessment: the logistic transformation of AES raw scores into…
Descriptors: Computer Assisted Testing, Essays, Scoring, Scores
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Kim, Ahyoung Alicia; Yumsek, Meltem; Kemp, Jason A.; Chapman, Mark; Cook, H. Gary – Language Testing, 2023
English learners (ELs) comprise approximately 10% of kindergarten to Grade 12 students in US public schools, with about 15% of ELs identified as having disabilities. English language proficiency (ELP) assessments must adhere to universal design principles and incorporate universal tools, designed to increase accessibility for all ELs, including…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Students with Disabilities
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Min, Shangchao; Bishop, Kyoungwon; Gary Cook, Howard – Language Testing, 2022
This study explored the interplay between content knowledge and reading ability in a large-scale multistage adaptive English for academic purposes (EAP) reading assessment at a range of ability levels across 1-12 graders. The datasets for this study were item-level responses to the reading tests of ACCESS for ELLs Online 2.0. A sample of 10,000…
Descriptors: Item Response Theory, English Language Learners, Correlation, Reading Ability
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Lee, Shinhye; Winke, Paula – Language Testing, 2018
We investigated how young language learners process their responses on and perceive a computer-mediated, timed speaking test. Twenty 8-, 9-, and 10-year-old non-native English-speaking children (NNSs) and eight same-aged, native English-speaking children (NSs) completed seven computerized sample TOEFL® Primary™ speaking test tasks. We investigated…
Descriptors: Elementary School Students, Second Language Learning, Responses, Computer Assisted Testing