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Emma Bruce; Karen Dunn; Tony Clark – Language Testing, 2025
Several high-stakes English proficiency tests including but not limited to IELTS, PTE Academic, and TOEFL iBT recommend a 2-year time limit on validity for score usage. Although this timeframe provides a useful rule-of-thumb for the recency of testing, it can have far-reaching consequences. In response to stakeholder queries around IELTS validity…
Descriptors: High Stakes Tests, Language Tests, Test Validity, Scores
Ute Knoch; Jason Fan – Language Testing, 2024
While several test concordance tables have been published, the research underpinning such tables has rarely been examined in detail. This study aimed to survey the publically available studies or documentation underpinning the test concordance tables of the providers of four major international language tests, all accepted by the Australian…
Descriptors: Language Tests, English, Test Validity, Item Analysis
Brown, Annie; Ducasse, Ana Maria – Language Assessment Quarterly, 2019
This study investigates the relationship between performances on the speaking component of the TOEFL iBTTM with performances on academic oral assessment tasks. For the academic tasks, we recorded and transcribed the performances of five local and five high-achieving international undergraduate students on oral assessment tasks in core first-year…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Oral Language, Language Proficiency, High Achievement
Farley, Alan; Yang, Helen Hong – Higher Education Research and Development, 2020
This is the first study that examines the comparative validity of the Chinese National College Entrance Exam (known as Gaokao) to a Western end-of-secondary-school performance measure, Australian Tertiary Admission Rank (ATAR), as admission criteria to an Australian undergraduate degree programme. The study offers a strong warning about using just…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, College Admission, Admission Criteria, College Entrance Examinations
Neumann, Michelle M.; Worrall, Sheena; Neumann, David L. – Journal of Research on Technology in Education, 2019
Touch-screen tablets are used in the classroom for assessment. Little is known about the psychometric properties of tablet-based assessments. This study examined the validity and reliability of an expressive and receptive assessment app designed to measure literacy skills. Children (N = 45; 3-5 years) completed the app assessments for alphabet and…
Descriptors: Handheld Devices, Emergent Literacy, Computer Assisted Testing, Test Validity
Humphry, Stephen; Heldsinger, Sandra; Dawkins, Sue – Australian Journal of Education, 2017
Although the teaching of children's oral language is critical to both their social development and academic success, the assessment of oral language development poses many challenges for classroom teachers. The aim of the study is to develop an approach that: (i) enables teachers to assess oral language in a reliable, valid and comparable manner…
Descriptors: Oral Language, Teaching Methods, Language Acquisition, Teacher Role
Roche, Thomas; Harrington, Michael – Journal of Further and Higher Education, 2018
English language programmes provide established pathways for international students seeking university admission in countries such as Australia and the United Kingdom. In order to refer international applicants to appropriate levels and durations of English language support prior to matriculation into their main course of study, pathway providers…
Descriptors: Student Placement, College Admission, College Students, Foreign Students
Buchholz, Joerg M.; Davis, Chris; Beadle, Julie; Kim, Jeesun – Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 2022
Purpose: This study aimed to develop and test a measure of real-time continuous speech understanding to be used with natural dialogues. Method: The measure was based on a category monitoring paradigm and employed five existing recordings of natural dialogues from which the different test categories and associated target words were derived. For…
Descriptors: Speech Communication, Interpersonal Communication, Intelligibility, Comprehension
Thompson, Christine; Gabriel, Florence; Leonard, Simon – Australian Primary Mathematics Classroom, 2020
The authors explore how collaborative assessment design is an often overlooked but valid opportunity for professional learning. The article examines how student feedback and a well-designed assessment can reveal potential improvements to the teaching and learning of fractions.
Descriptors: Teacher Made Tests, Teacher Collaboration, Faculty Development, Mathematics Tests
Castles, Anne; Polito, Vince; Pritchard, Stephen; Anandakumar, Thushara; Coltheart, Max – Australian Journal of Learning Difficulties, 2018
Nonword reading measures are widely used to index children's phonics knowledge, and are included in the Phonics Screening Check currently implemented in England and under consideration in Australia. However, critics have argued that the use of nonword measures disadvantages good readers, as they will be influenced by their strong lexical knowledge…
Descriptors: Reading Tests, Phonics, Error Patterns, Elementary School Students
Ching, Teresa Y. C.; Saetre-Turner, Michelle; Harkus, Samantha; Martin, Louise; Ward, Meagan; Marnane, Vivienne; Jones, Caroline; Collyer, Eugenie; Khamchuang, Chantelle; Kong, Kelvin – Deafness & Education International, 2020
Many Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children are affected by chronic middle ear infection or otitis media from infancy that has a negative impact on development of listening and communication skills. Deficits in these skills are often not detected until school-age when the opportunity for early intervention is lost. Primary health and early…
Descriptors: Test Construction, Test Validity, Indigenous Populations, Rural Areas
Loakes, Deborah; Moses, Karin; Simpson, Jane; Wigglesworth, Gillian – Language Assessment Quarterly, 2012
This article reports on the development and piloting of a vocabulary recognition test designed for Indigenous Australian children. The research is both application oriented and development oriented. The aims of the article are to determine how well the test is used as a test instrument and the extent to which children recognize vocabulary items in…
Descriptors: Language Tests, Foreign Countries, Language Skills, Word Recognition
Boller, Kimberly; Harman-Smith, Yasmin – Mathematica Policy Research, Inc., 2019
Australia is the only country in the world that regularly collects comprehensive information about the holistic development of children entering their first year of school. Known as the Australian Early Development Census (AEDC), the data gathered from this work guides national and state policy. These types of measurements are useful for the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Equal Education, Early Childhood Education, Child Development
Howard, Steven J.; Melhuish, Edward – Journal of Psychoeducational Assessment, 2017
Several methods of assessing executive function (EF), self-regulation, language development, and social development in young children have been developed over previous decades. Yet new technologies make available methods of assessment not previously considered. In resolving conceptual and pragmatic limitations of existing tools, the Early Years…
Descriptors: Executive Function, Language Acquisition, Self Management, Social Development
Moore, Robyn Cantle – Deafness and Education International, 2014
The Infant Monitor of vocal Production (IMP) was conceived as an educational strategy to help parents understand the nature and pace of their baby's vocal development following neonatal diagnosis and amplification for hearing loss. The potential for other clinical applications emerged with use. The instrument presents as a series of…
Descriptors: Infants, Teaching Methods, Child Development, Hearing Impairments