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Download full textAbedi, Jamal; Bailey, Alison; Butler, Frances; Castellon-Wellington, Martha; Leon, Seth; Mirocha, James – National Center for Research on Evaluation, Standards, and Student Testing (CRESST), 2005
The research effort reported in this document addresses the important national need for determining the validity of large-scale content assessments in English with students who are in the process of acquiring English as a second language. Often these students have been excluded from such assessments, but there have been recent, growing efforts to…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, English (Second Language), Language Aptitude, Construct Validity
Huhta, Ari, Ed.; And Others – 1993
A collection of articles on second-language testing includes: "The State of Language Testing in the 1990s" (J. Charles Alderson); "The Exercise of Power and Control in the Rhetorics of Testing" (Elana Shohamy); "Institutional and Political Aspects of Language Testing" (Bernard Spolsky); "Language Planning Policy…
Descriptors: Cloze Procedure, Criterion Referenced Tests, Difficulty Level, Educational Trends
