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Direct linkMcLeod, Melissa; Cheng, Liying – Language Assessment Quarterly, 2023
The Canadian English Language Proficiency Index Program (CELPIP) Test was designed for immigration and citizenship in Canada. CELPIP is a computer-based English-language proficiency test which covers all four skills. This test review provides a description of the test and its construct, tasks, and delivery. Then, it appraises CELPIP for…
Descriptors: Language Tests, Language Proficiency, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
Cheng, Liying; Sun, Youyi – Language Assessment Quarterly, 2015
This article draws on Kane's (2006) argument-based validation framework to synthesize evidence derived from a large-scale, mixed-method explanatory study on the impact of the Ontario Secondary School Literacy Test (OSSLT) on second language (L2) students. The purpose of the OSSLT is to ensure that students have acquired the essential reading and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Secondary School Students, Literacy, Reading Tests
Cheng, Liying; Fox, Janna – Language Teaching, 2013
This paper reviews a selected sample of 24 doctoral dissertations in language assessment (broadly defined), completed between 2006 and 2011 in Canadian universities. These dissertations fall into five thematic categories: 1) reliability, validity and factors affecting test performance; 2) washback (impact) and ethics; 3) raters, rating and rating…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Doctoral Dissertations, Mixed Methods Research, Language Research
Download full textFox, Janna; Cheng, Liying – TESL Canada Journal, 2015
In keeping with the trend to elicit multiple stakeholder responses to operational tests as part of test validation, this exploratory mixed methods study examines test-taker accounts of an Internet-based (i.e., computer-administered) test in the high-stakes context of proficiency testing for university admission. In 2013, as language testing…
Descriptors: Computer Assisted Testing, Language Tests, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
Fox, Janna; Cheng, Liying – Assessment in Education: Principles, Policy & Practice, 2007
Within the context of increasing numbers of second language (L2) learners in Canadian schools and expanding standards-driven testing frameworks, a passing score on the Ontario Secondary School Literacy Test (OSSLT) is a recently imposed secondary school graduation requirement in Ontario. There is evidence, however, that tests designed on the basis…
Descriptors: Program Effectiveness, Foreign Countries, Second Language Learning, Inferences
Cheng, Liying; Fox, Janna; Zheng, Ying – Canadian Modern Language Review, 2007
The Ontario Secondary School Literacy Test (OSSLT) is a cross-curricular literacy test issued to all secondary school students in the province of Ontario. The test consists of a reading and a writing component, both of which must be successfully completed for secondary school graduation in Ontario. This study elicited 16 first language and second…
Descriptors: Graduation Requirements, Foreign Countries, Literacy, Inferences
