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MacFarlane, Marco; Barr, Christopher; Uccelli, Paola – Language Learning Journal, 2022
Recently a novel instrument -- the Core Academic Language Instrument (CALS-I) -- aimed at testing a constellation of school-relevant English language skills was developed and validated for use in the United States (Uccelli, Barr, Dobbs, Galloway, Meneses and Sánchez, 2015. Core Academic Language Skills: An expanded operational construct and a…
Descriptors: Construct Validity, Measures (Individuals), Academic Language, Foreign Countries
Wong, Shiat Lu; Siew, Nyet Moi; Soon, Chiow Thai – Problems of Education in the 21st Century, 2020
There are limited reports about development of questionnaire to measure learning satisfaction among young children. In this research, guidelines were listed for developing a questionnaire that gauges Chinese Character Literacy Learning Satisfaction (CCLLS) among 8-year-old children. The research was undertaken based on the responses of 232…
Descriptors: Test Construction, Questionnaires, Chinese, Literacy
Shannon Sampson; Susan Cantrell; Kristen Perry; Olukemi Kolawole – TESOL Journal, 2025
This study explores the validity of the Culturally Responsive Instruction Observation Protocol (CRIOP) an instrument that measures the implementation of culturally responsive instruction (CRI) in K-8 classrooms with multilingual students. The validity study uses a Rasch measurement approach. With strong findings from analyses, including…
Descriptors: Culturally Relevant Education, Classroom Observation Techniques, Kindergarten, Elementary School Students
Huang, Becky H.; Bailey, Alison L.; Sass, Daniel A.; Shawn Chang, Yung-hsiang – Language Testing, 2021
Given the increasing emphasis of communicative competence in English as a foreign language (EFL) contexts and the lack of validation research on speaking assessments for adolescent EFL learners, in the current study we examined the validity of the TOEFL Junior® speaking test, a relatively new speaking assessment developed by Educational Testing…
Descriptors: Test Validity, Language Tests, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
Jieun Kim; Daniel Richard Isbell – Language Assessment Quarterly, 2024
The ACTFL Assessment of Performance Toward Proficiency in Languages (AAPPL, https://www.actfl.n.d.org/assessments/k-12-assessments/aappl) assesses proficiency in 11 languages for students in grades 3 to 12 and is often used to award the Seal of Biliteracy. While arguments for the valid interpretation and uses of the AAPPL have previously been…
Descriptors: Language Tests, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Language Proficiency
Yumsek, Meltem – Language Testing in Asia, 2023
Various stakeholders, such as policymakers and educators, require diagnostic feedback and actionable test results. One particular context in which fine-grained test results are of utmost importance is English language proficiency (ELP) assessments as they are used for critical decisions for students. Diagnostic classification models (DCMs) afford…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, English (Second Language), Language Tests
Xinyi Zhang; Carrie Lau – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2024
The present study aimed to develop and validate a questionnaire assessing parents' beliefs about, and attitudes toward, supporting young children's English as a second/foreign language development -- Parent English Language Belief and Attitude Questionnaire (PELBA-Q). The PELBA-Q was piloted with 173 parents of kindergarten-aged children and…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Questionnaires
Taliha Keles – International Journal of Contemporary Educational Research, 2024
The aim of the study is to reveal the concurrent validity of the Central Examination of Secondary Education Institutions (OKMS). For this purpose, the relationship between the OKMS subtest raw scores of the students who took the exam and the 8th-grade year-end achievement scores of the courses within the scope of the exam was analyzed by canonical…
Descriptors: Correlation, Grade 8, Secondary School Students, Test Validity
Galang Adhitia Mahardhika; Yanty Wirza; Faksi Rana Al-Kahfi; Ahmad Dindang Mababaya – Indonesian Journal of English Language Teaching and Applied Linguistics, 2025
The textbook used for fifth grade elementary students in an elementary school in Kuningan, West Java claims to offer Higher Order Thinking Skill (HOTS) questions on the cover of the textbook and some questions have been labeled as HOTS questions. This research investigated the validity of this claim, analyzing the levels of cognitive domain of…
Descriptors: Grade 5, Elementary School Students, Thinking Skills, Foreign Countries
Huang, Becky H.; Butler, Yuko Goto – Language Assessment Quarterly, 2020
The population of young language minority (LM) students is rapidly growing worldwide due to global migration and immigration trends. The increasing representation of young LM students in school settings creates high demand for the language assessment of LM students in order to meet the needs of stakeholders, such as governments and language…
Descriptors: Validity, Student Evaluation, Language Proficiency, Language Minorities
Tuohilampi, Laura; Nieminen, Juuso Henrik; Beswick, Kim – For the Learning of Mathematics, 2023
When a Year 7 student physically reacted to a prompt of another student by anxiously drumming the desk with his ruler, exclaiming "uuuuhh", the initial thought of the observing researcher, Laura, was: "this is an interesting account". This started a reflective journey of first applying robust research methodologies to the…
Descriptors: Logical Thinking, Problem Solving, Grade 7, Researchers
A Validation Study for a Short-Version Scale to Assess 21st Century Skills in Flipped EFL Classrooms
Tang, Hanwei; Mao, Liqun; Wang, Fuyan; Zhang, Hong – Oxford Review of Education, 2022
Twenty-first-century skills are considered to be critical to student development. The present study aimed to validate a scale that reflects 21st century skills in education. The participants were 982 students in the fourth, fifth, and sixth grades at two primary schools in a large city in Shandong, China, who were all asked to learn English in a…
Descriptors: Test Validity, 21st Century Skills, Flipped Classroom, English (Second Language)
Wolf, Mikyung Kim – Language Testing in Asia, 2022
In the US K-12 public school settings, each state's annual English language proficiency (ELP) assessment, as part of an educational accountability system, has tremendous impact on English learner (EL) students' academic paths and success. It is thus critical to establish a robust validation framework and empirical evidence to ensure that states'…
Descriptors: Correlation, Kindergarten, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
K. M. Rosheim; K. G. Tamte; M. J. Froemming – Reading Psychology, 2024
This 2-year exploratory study of Multilingual Learner's performance on literacy assessments is grounded in Culturally Responsive Teaching. By examining the protocols for universal screeners and progress monitoring at one midwestern elementary school, teachers and researchers learned more about language vs. literacy-related results and discovered…
Descriptors: Multilingualism, Bilingual Students, Student Evaluation, Culturally Relevant Education
Al-Obaydi, Liqaa Habeb; Pikhart, Marcel – MEXTESOL Journal, 2023
Intercultural communication plays a crucial role in second language (L2) acquisition as it always happens in the context of another, usually very different culture. The present study sheds light on the benefits of using documentary videos in teaching intercultural communication to young students and how they can affect students' development of…
Descriptors: Cultural Awareness, Documentaries, Intercultural Communication, Video Technology