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Huiying Cai; Xun Yan – Language Testing, 2024
Rater comments tend to be qualitatively analyzed to indicate raters' application of rating scales. This study applied natural language processing (NLP) techniques to quantify meaningful, behavioral information from a corpus of rater comments and triangulated that information with a many-facet Rasch measurement (MFRM) analysis of rater scores. The…
Descriptors: Natural Language Processing, Item Response Theory, Rating Scales, Writing Evaluation
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Villa Larenas, Salomé; Brunfaut, Tineke – Language Testing, 2023
Research has shown that language teachers typically feel underprepared for assessment aspects of their job. One reason may relate to how teacher education programmes prepare future teachers in this area. Research insights into how and to what extent teacher educators train future language teachers in language assessment matters are scarce,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Second Language Instruction, Language Teachers, Teacher Educators
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Han, Chao; Xiao, Xiaoyan – Language Testing, 2022
The quality of sign language interpreting (SLI) is a gripping construct among practitioners, educators and researchers, calling for reliable and valid assessment. There has been a diverse array of methods in the extant literature to measure SLI quality, ranging from traditional error analysis to recent rubric scoring. In this study, we want to…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Sign Language, Deaf Interpreting, Evaluators
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Can Daskin, Nilüfer; Hatipoglu, Çiler – Language Testing, 2019
In this study we are concerned with the informal dimension of formative assessment (FA) in an L2 classroom. We examine those instances that are embedded into everyday learning activities and that emerge in and through classroom interaction contingently, continuously and flexibly. Drawing on the methodological underpinnings of Conversation Analysis…
Descriptors: Formative Evaluation, Classroom Communication, Second Language Learning, Evaluation Methods
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Youn, Soo Jung – Language Testing, 2015
This study investigates the validity of assessing L2 pragmatics in interaction using mixed methods, focusing on the evaluation inference. Open role-plays that are meaningful and relevant to the stakeholders in an English for Academic Purposes context were developed for classroom assessment. For meaningful score interpretations and accurate…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Pragmatics, Validity, Mixed Methods Research