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Johnson, Martin; Mehta, Sanjana; Rushton, Nicky – Pedagogies: An International Journal, 2015
A new "controlled assessment" model was introduced in England, Wales and Northern Ireland in 2009. This paper describes a research project that explores teachers' experiences of this new assessment model in General Certificate of Secondary Education (GCSE) level modern foreign language (MFL) speaking assessment. Focusing on teachers'…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Models, Evaluation Methods, Secondary School Teachers
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O'Toole, J. M.; King, R. A. R. – Language Testing, 2011
The "cloze" test is one possible investigative instrument for predicting text comprehensibility. Conceptual coding of student replacement of deleted words has been considered to be more valid than exact coding, partly because conceptual coding seemed fairer to poorer readers. This paper reports a quantitative study of 447 Australian…
Descriptors: Cloze Procedure, Test Results, Language Tests, Reading Comprehension