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Direct linkDavid Allen; Rie Koizumi – Language Assessment Quarterly, 2024
"The English Speaking Achievement Test for Japanese Junior High School Students" (ESAT-J) was introduced to contribute to levelling up public English education in Tokyo in 2022. Critics, however, have made claims in the mass media against the use of the test and stakeholder groups have called for its cancellation. This paper presents an…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Foreign Countries, Junior High School Students
Download full textSchifter, Catherine C.; Carey, Martha – International Association for Development of the Information Society, 2014
The No Child Left Behind (NCLB) legislation spawned a plethora of standardized testing services for all the high stakes testing required by the law. We argue that one-size-fits all assessments disadvantage students who are English Language Learners, in the USA, as well as students with limited economic resources, special needs, and not reading on…
Descriptors: Standardized Tests, Models, Evaluation Methods, Educational Legislation
