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Florida Department of Education, 2025
This technical assistance paper provides policy and guidance to individuals with test administration responsibilities in adult education programs. Rule 6A-6.014, Florida Administrative Code (F.A.C.), General Requirements for Adult General Education Programs, provides a list of assessments that are approved by the U.S. Department of Education (ED)…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Testing, Adult Basic Education, Secondary Education
Purpura, James E.; Davoodifard, Mashad; Voss, Erik – Language Assessment Quarterly, 2021
The online placement test for the Community English Language Program (CLP) at Teachers College, Columbia University has been administered in a computer lab since 2015. While most of the components of this placement exam system are online, including registration, exam delivery, scoring, and score reporting, the COVID-19 pandemic elevated the need…
Descriptors: Student Placement, Language Tests, Second Language Instruction, Second Language Learning
Rodriguez, Amber Gallup; Burt, Miriam; Peyton, Joy Kreeft; Ueland, Michelle – Center for Adult English Language Acquisition, 2009
Programs for adults learning English vary widely in size and scope. Some are large, multilevel programs, such as the Arlington Education and Employment Program (REEP) in Virginia, which has more than 45 staff members, over 100 volunteers, and an array of student services for the 7,500 learners served annually at the program's 7 locations. Others…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Adult Students, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning

Purcell, Sue – Language Learning Journal, 1996
Discusses the Graded Objectives for Adults Learning (GOLF) Russian program. The aim of the GOLF program is to have four levels, with Level Four being considered equivalent to a good GCSE pass, at which stage students will have a good working knowledge of the language and a wide vocabulary. (CK)
Descriptors: Adult Students, Course Descriptions, Course Objectives, Foreign Countries

Edwards, Alison L. – Modern Language Journal, 1996
Examined the validity of the pragmatic approach to test difficulty put forward by Child (1987). This study investigated whether the Child discourse-type hierarchy predicts text difficulty for second-language readers. Results suggested that this hierarchy may provide a sound basis for developing foreign-language tests when it is applied by trained…
Descriptors: Adult Students, Analysis of Variance, French, Interrater Reliability
Kenyon, Dorry; Van Duzer, Carol – Center for Adult English Language Acquisition, 2003
Ensuring that language tests for adult English language learners are appropriate, valid, and reliable is a challenge. Performance-based assessments are complex to develop and implement. Yet, because the focus of assessment, both in the National Reporting System for Adult Education (NRS) descriptors and in the Department of Education's definition…
Descriptors: Student Evaluation, Language Tests, Second Language Learning, English (Second Language)
TESL Talk, 1983
This compilation of 12 papers covers lesson planning; classroom use of dialogs, drills, audiovisual aids, music, games, stories, newspapers, field trips; and testing in the adult ESL classroom. (EKN)
Descriptors: Adult Students, Audiovisual Aids, Classroom Techniques, Dialogs (Language)

Applebaum, Sheila Dermer; Taborek, Elizabeth – TESL Canada Journal, 1986
Two Toronto community English-as-a-second-language (ESL) programs used oral interview tests to place adults in appropriate programs. Instruments used included: Foreign Service Oral Interview; Ilyin Oral Interview; object-oriented testing; group testing; performance in authentic situations; Ontario Test of English as a Second Language; and George…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Adult Students, Communicative Competence (Languages), Community Programs
National Center for the Study of Adult Learning and Literacy (NCSALL), 2000
The National Center for the Study of Adult Learning and Literacy (NCSALL) Adult Reading Components Study (ARCS) was the first large-scale attempt to describe the reading of students enrolled in adult basic education (ABE) and English for speakers of other languages (ESOL) using a battery of individually administered reading and language tests.…
Descriptors: Site Selection, Language Tests, Adult Basic Education, Adult Education