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Download full textSivakorn Tangsakul; Kornwipa Poonpon – rEFLections, 2024
Given the significant global influence of the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages: Teaching, Learning, and Assessment (CEFR) on English language education, this study deals with aligning a university's academic reading tests to the CEFR. It aimed at validating the test construct of the academic reading tests in relation to the…
Descriptors: Alignment (Education), Reading Tests, Second Language Learning, Language Proficiency
Direct linkKilgus, Stephen P.; Bonifay, Wes E.; Eklund, Katie; von der Embse, Nathaniel P.; Peet, Casie; Izumi, Jared; Shim, Hyejin; Meyer, Lauren N. – Grantee Submission, 2020
The purpose of this study was to support the development and initial validation of the Intervention Selection Profile (ISP)-Skills, a brief 14-item teacher rating scale intended to inform the selection and delivery of instructional interventions at Tier 2. Teacher participants (n = 196) rated five students from their classroom across four measures…
Descriptors: Test Construction, Test Validity, Intervention, Rating Scales
Awadh, Awadh Nasser Munassar; Khan, Ansarullah Shafiull – Journal of Language and Linguistic Studies, 2020
This study aims at investigating the challenges that Yemeni translation students encounter when translating neologisms from English into Arabic. It also aims at comparing students' translation with outcomes of machine translation (MT). The authors follow the descriptive and comparative methods in conducting this study. To achieve the objective of…
Descriptors: Barriers, Translation, English (Second Language), Semitic Languages
New York State Education Dept., Albany. Bureau of General Education Curriculum Development. – 1976
Instructors can use this inventory to prepare high school equivalency students for the reading skills test of the new form of the Test of General Educational Development (GED). It replaces the instrument previously recommended for that purpose, the Iowa Tests of Educational Development (ITED). Fifty-two multiple choice questions test the ability…
Descriptors: Classification, Diagnostic Tests, Equivalency Tests, High School Equivalency Programs
New York State Education Dept., Albany. Bureau of General Education Curriculum Development. – 1976
Instructors can use this inventory to prepare high school equivalency students for the reading skills test of the new form of the Test of General Educational Development (GED). It replaces the instrument previously recommended for that purpose, the Iowa Tests of Educational Development (ITED). Fifty multiple choice questions test the ability to…
Descriptors: Classification, Critical Reading, Diagnostic Tests, Equivalency Tests
Peer reviewedLukmani, Yasmeen – ELT Journal, 1982
The approach taken to testing reading comprehension in a Bombay University English program is described. A distinction is drawn between communicative and communicational teaching approaches. Reading skills and the traditional techniques for teaching them are examined, and sample reading comprehension test items using the communicational approach…
Descriptors: Classification, Communicative Competence (Languages), English (Second Language), Foreign Countries
Brandenburg, Dale C. – 1979
Prior research has indicated that items administered to college students for rating their instructors, can be empirically as well as logically classified on a continuum from very general to specific. Three of these hypothesized classifications of item specificity--global, general concept, and specific--were chosen to represent this continuum.…
Descriptors: Classification, Content Analysis, Course Evaluation, Higher Education
Weber, Margaret B.; Argo, Jana K. – 1979
This study determined whether item forms ( rules for constructing items related to a domain or set of tasks) would enable naive item writers to generate multiple-choice items at three taxonomic levels--knowledge, comprehension, and application. Students wrote 120 multiple-choice items from 20 item forms, corresponding to educational objectives…
Descriptors: Achievement Tests, Classification, Cognitive Objectives, Criterion Referenced Tests
