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Operationalizing the Reading-into-Writing Construct in Analytic Rating Scales: Effects of Different Approaches on Rating
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Lestari, Santi B.; Brunfaut, Tineke – Language Testing, 2023
Assessing integrated reading-into-writing task performances is known to be challenging, and analytic rating scales have been found to better facilitate the scoring of these performances than other common types of rating scales. However, little is known about how specific operationalizations of the reading-into-writing construct in analytic rating…
Descriptors: Reading Writing Relationship, Writing Tests, Rating Scales, Writing Processes
Examining the Assessment Literacy Required for Interpreting Score Reports: A Focus on Educators of K-12 English Learners
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Kim, Ahyoung Alicia; Chapman, Mark; Kondo, Akira; Wilmes, Carsten – Language Testing, 2020
This study investigated the assessment literacy required for K-12 educators to interpret score reports from a K-12 English language proficiency assessment. The assessment in concern is ACCESS for ELLs, which is an annual summative assessment that is delivered to nearly 2 million English learners (ELs) across 39 US states and territories. This…
Descriptors: English Language Learners, Elementary Secondary Education, Assessment Literacy, Language Tests
Measuring English Language Workplace Proficiency across Subgroups: Using CFA Models to Validate Test Score Interpretation
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Yoo, Hanwook; Manna, Venessa F. – Language Testing, 2017
This study assessed the factor structure of the Test of English for International Communication (TOEIC®) Listening and Reading test, and its invariance across subgroups of test-takers. The subgroups were defined by (a) gender, (b) age, (c) employment status, (d) time spent studying English, and (e) having lived in a country where English is the…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Language Proficiency, Language Tests, Second Language Learning
Confidence Scoring of Speaking Performance: How Does Fuzziness become Exact?
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Jin, Tan; Mak, Barley; Zhou, Pei – Language Testing, 2012
The fuzziness of assessing second language speaking performance raises two difficulties in scoring speaking performance: "indistinction between adjacent levels" and "overlap between scales". To address these two problems, this article proposes a new approach, "confidence scoring", to deal with such fuzziness, leading to "confidence" scores between…
Descriptors: Speech Communication, Scoring, Test Interpretation, Second Language Learning
Factor Structure of the Revised TOEIC[R] Test: A Multiple-Sample Analysis
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In'nami, Yo; Koizumi, Rie – Language Testing, 2012
This study examined the factor structure of the listening and reading sections of the revised Test of English for International Communication (TOEIC[R]) test. The data from the TOEIC IP (institutional program) test taken by 569 English learners were randomly split into two samples (n = 285 vs. 284). Four models (higher-order, correlated,…
Descriptors: Communication (Thought Transfer), Second Language Learning, Factor Structure, Measurement
College Students' Attitudes towards Written versus Oral Tests of English as a Foreign Language.
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Zeidner, Moshe; Bensoussan, Marsha – Language Testing, 1988
Compares student attitudes toward oral or written tests and the relationship of attitude to performance of 170 students enrolled in the advanced reading course of English as a foreign language at Haifa University (Israel). Students preferred written over oral tests. No meaningful relationship was observed between students' attitudes and test…
Descriptors: Advanced Courses, English (Second Language), Foreign Countries, Higher Education