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Download full textStewart, Gail; Strachan, Andrea – TESL Canada Journal, 2022
Since its implementation in 2004, the Canadian English Language Benchmark Assessment for Nurses (CELBAN) has been accepted as evidence of language ability for licensure of internationally educated nurses (IENs) in Canada. This article focuses on the complexities of sustaining an occupation-specific assessment over time. The authors reference the…
Descriptors: Language Tests, English for Special Purposes, Benchmarking, Nurses
Direct linkSinharay, Sandip – Educational Measurement: Issues and Practice, 2018
The choice of anchor tests is crucial in applications of the nonequivalent groups with anchor test design of equating. Sinharay and Holland (2006, 2007) suggested "miditests," which are anchor tests that are content-representative and have the same mean item difficulty as the total test but have a smaller spread of item difficulties.…
Descriptors: Test Content, Difficulty Level, Test Items, Test Construction
Vause, Tricia; Yu, C. T.; Martin, Garry L. – Journal of Applied Research in Intellectual Disabilities, 2007
The Assessment of Basic Learning Abilities (ABLA) test requires a tester to attempt to teach to a person, using standard prompting and reinforcement procedures, six tasks that are hierarchically ordered in difficulty. Performance on the test provides valuable information for teachers and rehabilitation workers to match the difficulty of training…
Descriptors: Mental Retardation, Guidelines, Test Use, Test Reviews
Crawford, Gary D.; And Others – 1983
The Foreign Service Institute (FSI) has been engaged in oral language proficiency testing theory and practice for more than 20 years. The FSI test has been consistent during this time in format, evaluation criteria, performance standards, and level definitions. Current concerns about the degree of standardization of the format and the strength of…
Descriptors: Academic Standards, Adult Students, Difficulty Level, Evaluation Criteria
Dodds, Jeffrey – 1999
Basic precepts for test development are described and explained as they are presented in measurement textbooks commonly used in the fields of education and psychology. The five building blocks discussed as the foundation of well-constructed tests are: (1) specification of purpose; (2) standard conditions; (3) consistency; (4) validity; and (5)…
Descriptors: Difficulty Level, Educational Research, Grading, Higher Education
Ridgeway, Gretchen Freiheit – 1982
A one-parameter latent trait model was the basis of the test development procedures in the Basic Skills Assessment Program (BSAP) of the Department of Defense Dependents Schools (DoDDS). Several issues are involved in applying the Rasch model to an assessment program in a large school district. Separate sets of skills continua are arranged by…
Descriptors: Achievement Tests, Basic Skills, Dependents Schools, Difficulty Level
