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Tobia, Valentina; Ciancaleoni, Matteo; Bonifacci, Paola – Language Testing, 2017
In this study, two alternative theoretical models were compared, in order to analyze which of them best explains primary school children's text comprehension skills. The first one was based on the distinction between two types of answers requested by the comprehension test: local or global. The second model involved texts' input modality: written…
Descriptors: Elementary School Students, Language Tests, Foreign Countries, Comparative Analysis
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Bouwer, Renske; Béguin, Anton; Sanders, Ted; van den Bergh, Huub – Language Testing, 2015
In the present study, aspects of the measurement of writing are disentangled in order to investigate the validity of inferences made on the basis of writing performance and to describe implications for the assessment of writing. To include genre as a facet in the measurement, we obtained writing scores of 12 texts in four different genres for each…
Descriptors: Writing Tests, Generalization, Scores, Writing Instruction