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Muhammed Parviz; Masoud Azizi – Discover Education, 2025
This article offers a critical review of the Ministry of Science, Research, and Technology English Proficiency Test (MSRT), a high-stakes exam required for postgraduate graduation, scholarships, and certain employment positions in Iran. Despite its widespread use, the design and implementation of the MSRT raise concerns about its validity and…
Descriptors: Language Tests, Language Proficiency, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
Constructing a Roadmap to Measure the Quality of Business Assessments Aimed at Curriculum Management
Silva, Thanuci; Santos, Regiane dos; Mallet, Débora – Journal of Education for Business, 2023
Assuring the quality of education is a concern of learning institutions. To do so, it is necessary to have assertive learning management, with consistent data on students' outcomes. This research provides associate deans and researchers, a roadmap with which to gather evidence to improve the quality of open-ended assessments. Based on statistical…
Descriptors: Student Evaluation, Evaluation Methods, Business Education, Higher Education
Tang, Yinjie; Luo, Shaoqian – Language Teaching Research Quarterly, 2022
This paper probes into implicit language aptitude (LA), a set of cognitive abilities that showcase learners' unconscious, automatic second language (L2) attainment. Implicit LA is becoming an important part of aptitude research, and advances the understanding of L2 learning mechanism. This paper critiques the construct of implicit LA and proposes…
Descriptors: Language Aptitude, Language Tests, Cognitive Ability, Second Language Learning
Ali Khodi; Logendra Stanley Ponniah; Amir Hossein Farrokhi; Fateme Sadeghi – Language Testing in Asia, 2024
The current article evaluates a national English language proficiency test known as the "MSRT test" which is used to determine the eligibility of candidates for admission to and completion of higher education programs in Iran. Students in all majors take this standardized, high-stake criterion-referenced test to determine if they have…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Language Tests, Reading Tests, Language Proficiency
Jung Youn, Soo – Language Testing, 2023
As access to smartphones and emerging technologies has become ubiquitous in our daily lives and in language learning, technology-mediated social interaction has become common in teaching and assessing L2 speaking. The changing ecology of L2 spoken interaction provides language educators and testers with opportunities for renewed test design and…
Descriptors: Test Construction, Test Validity, Second Language Learning, Telecommunications
McLeod, 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
Cari F. Herrmann Abell – Grantee Submission, 2021
In the last twenty-five years, the discussion surrounding validity evidence has shifted both in language and scope, from the work of Messick and Kane to the updated Standards for Educational and Psychological Testing. However, these discussions haven't necessarily focused on best practices for different types of instruments or assessments, taking…
Descriptors: Test Format, Measurement Techniques, Student Evaluation, Rating Scales
Peng, Yue; Yan, Wei; Cheng, Liying – Language Testing, 2021
This test review focuses on the current version (2009) of [Chinese characters omitted] (Hanyu Shuiping Kaoshi), literally translated as the Chinese Language Proficiency Test and abbreviated as HSK. Tailored to non-native speakers of the Chinese language, this test consists of six proficiency levels (Levels 1 and 2 as beginners, Levels 3 and 4 as…
Descriptors: Language Proficiency, Language Tests, Chinese, Decision Making
Areekkuzhiyil, Santhosh – Online Submission, 2021
Assessment is an integral part of any teaching learning process. Assessment has large number of functions to perform, whether it is formative or summative. This paper analyse the issues involved and the areas of concern in the classroom assessment practice and discusses the recent reforms take place. [This paper was published in Edutracks v20 n8…
Descriptors: Student Evaluation, Formative Evaluation, Summative Evaluation, Test Validity
Rivas, Axel; Scasso, Martín Guillermo – Journal of Education Policy, 2021
Since 2000, the PISA test implemented by OECD has become the prime benchmark for international comparisons in education. The 2015 PISA edition introduced methodological changes that altered the nature of its results. PISA made no longer valid non-reached items of the final part of the test, assuming that those unanswered questions were more a…
Descriptors: Test Validity, Computer Assisted Testing, Foreign Countries, Achievement Tests
Patrick Kyllonen; Amit Sevak; Teresa Ober; Ikkyu Choi; Jesse Sparks; Daniel Fishtein – ETS Research Report Series, 2024
Assessment refers to a broad array of approaches for measuring or evaluating a person's (or group of persons') skills, behaviors, dispositions, or other attributes. Assessments range from standardized tests used in admissions, employee selection, licensure examinations, and domestic and international large-scale assessments of cognitive and…
Descriptors: Assessment Literacy, Testing, Test Bias, Test Construction
Ali Hashemi; Samran Daneshfar – Indonesian Journal of English Language Teaching and Applied Linguistics, 2018
The International English Language Test System (IELTS) is one of the most reputable English tests that is used to assess the language proficiency of those who intend to study or work in an English speaking context. It is one of the most largescale proficiency tests which affects the lives of many students, as well as immigrants as the results of…
Descriptors: Test Validity, Test Reliability, Testing Problems, Language Proficiency
He, Chunxiu – International Journal of Higher Education, 2019
Given the practical significance of vocabulary testing in language teaching and the theoretical foundations of developing a vocabulary test, four well-established vocabulary tests are introduced for diagnostic purpose together with their corresponding validation studies, with a focus on the designed purpose, the selection of the items, the…
Descriptors: Vocabulary Development, Language Tests, Validity, Test Format
Hassan, Nurul Huda; Shih, Chih-Min – Language Assessment Quarterly, 2013
This article describes and reviews the Singapore-Cambridge General Certificate of Education Advanced Level General Paper (GP) examination. As a written test that is administered to preuniversity students, the GP examination is internationally recognised and accepted by universities and employers as proof of English competence. In this article, the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, College Entrance Examinations, English (Second Language), Writing Tests
Wang, Shiyu; Lin, Haiyan; Chang, Hua-Hua; Douglas, Jeff – Journal of Educational Measurement, 2016
Computerized adaptive testing (CAT) and multistage testing (MST) have become two of the most popular modes in large-scale computer-based sequential testing. Though most designs of CAT and MST exhibit strength and weakness in recent large-scale implementations, there is no simple answer to the question of which design is better because different…
Descriptors: Computer Assisted Testing, Adaptive Testing, Test Format, Sequential Approach