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Download full textFlippin, Michelle – Teaching and Learning in Communication Sciences & Disorders, 2023
Language sample analysis (LSA) is valuable clinical tool and an important component of comprehensive language assessment. However, LSA is underutilized in real-world practice. SLPs have identified time constraints, insufficient training, and lack of confidence in LSA skills as barriers to regular LSA implementation. Communication science and…
Descriptors: Student Attitudes, Language Tests, Sampling, Language Impairments
Fong, Anthony B.; Finkelstein, Neal D.; Jaeger, Laura M.; Diaz, Rebeca; Broek, Marie E. – WestEd, 2015
The Expository Reading and Writing Course (ERWC) was developed by California State University (CSU) faculty and high school educators to improve the academic literacy of high school seniors, thereby reducing the need for students to enroll in remedial English courses upon entering college. This report, produced by Innovation Studies at WestEd,…
Descriptors: Expository Writing, Course Evaluation, High School Seniors, Grade 12
Hartwell, Tyler; And Others – 1976
A project to field test instruments and procedures for measuring English language proficiency, to be used in a large-scale national household survey, is reported. The major purposes of the field test were to measure the validity of census-type questions for determining language proficiency, using several different bilingual ethnic groups, and to…
Descriptors: Bilingualism, Data Collection, English (Second Language), Language Proficiency
Ejzenberg, Roseli – 1990
A study was planned to generate a model for testing second language education that would incorporate task types to allow the display of fluency. It is argued that the display of oral fluency can be used as a selection criterion for inclusion of test items in multitask or portfolio assessment. The following three research questions were formulated:…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Adults, Data Collection, English (Second Language)
Kenyon, Dorry Mann; Stansfield, Charles W. – 1991
One aspect of the development of a performance assessment is addressed--the field testing of the tasks. In a performance-based assessment, the tasks must allow each examinee a fair and equal opportunity to give the best possible demonstration of his or her ability, and must elicit a performance sample that enables scorers to evaluate each examinee…
Descriptors: Bilingual Teachers, College Students, Data Collection, Educational Assessment
PDF pending restorationMcDonald, Frederick J.; And Others – 1977
This volume contains the appendices to a study to determine which patterns of classroom interaction and student characteristics were related to students' acquisition of oral proficiency in English. Participants were the English as a second language teachers and students at the West New York (New Jersey) Adult Learning Center. Student measures, a…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adults, Classroom Observation Techniques, Data Analysis
