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Direct linkWang, Danyang; Zheng, Li; Lin, Yuanyuan; Zhang, Yiwen; Sheng, Li – Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 2022
Purpose: Sentence repetition (SR) is believed to be a clinical marker for developmental language disorder (DLD) across many languages. This study explored the potential of a self-designed Mandarin SR task (MSRT) to reflect Mandarin-speaking preschoolers' language ability and to differentiate children with and without DLD in this population.…
Descriptors: Sentences, Repetition, Mandarin Chinese, Preschool Children
Download full textKilgus, 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
Schmidgall, Jonathan E.; Getman, Edward P.; Zu, Jiyun – Language Testing, 2018
In this study, we define the term "screener test," elaborate key considerations in test design, and describe how to incorporate the concepts of practicality and argument-based validation to drive an evaluation of screener tests for language assessment. A screener test is defined as a brief assessment designed to identify an examinee as a…
Descriptors: Test Validity, Test Use, Test Construction, Language Tests
Saban-Dülger, Nur Seda; Turan, Figen; Özcebe, Esra – Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 2022
Purpose: Language sampling analysis (LSA) plays an important role in evaluating language skills; hence, the study aimed to develop new assessment measures for the LSA in Turkish as alternatives to mean length of utterance (MLU) and the Language Assessment, Remediation and Screening Procedure. With this aim, Developmental Sentence Scoring (DSS) and…
Descriptors: Syntax, Turkish, Speech Communication, Correlation
Papageorgiou, Spiros; Wu, Sha; Hsieh, Ching-Ni; Tannenbaum, Richard J.; Cheng, Mengmeng – ETS Research Report Series, 2019
The past decade has seen an emerging interest in mapping (aligning or linking) test scores to language proficiency levels of external performance scales or frameworks, such as the Common European Framework of Reference (CEFR), as well as locally developed frameworks, such as China's Standards of English Language Ability (CSE). Such alignment is…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Language Tests, Second Language Learning, Computer Assisted Testing
Xi, Xiaoming – ETS Research Report Series, 2008
Although the primary use of the speaking section of the Test of English as a Foreign Language™ Internet-based test (TOEFL® iBT Speaking test) is to inform admissions decisions at English medium universities, it may also be useful as an initial screening measure for international teaching assistants (ITAs). This study provides criterion-related…
Descriptors: Test Validity, Criterion Referenced Tests, English (Second Language), Language Tests
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
Prediger, Dale J.; Swaney, Kyle B. – 1992
Starting in the fall of 1992, students will be asked to use the U.S. Department of Defense's "Occu-Find" to find occupations that fit their Armed Services Vocational Aptitude Battery (ASVAB) codes, which will be based on the ASVAB academic ability composite (a measure of student cognitive ability). The purpose of this report is to…
Descriptors: Ability, Adults, Career Counseling, Classification
Valdez, Cheryl; Schnell-Torosian, Roxanne – 1991
A test of English language proficiency designed for administration to school children with severe disabilities is presented. The test packet contains a manual for test administrators, a five-page form for recording student testing data, and a score sheet. The manual offers an introduction to the instrument, including its rationale, definitions of…
Descriptors: Classification, Elementary Secondary Education, English (Second Language), Expressive Language
Pugh, Richard C.; And Others – 1976
Categorizing Teacher Behavior, developed to measure acquisition of concepts portrayed in the Concepts and Patterns in Teacher-Pupil Interaction film series, measures the ability to identify and categorize instances of the specificed concepts as they are portrayed in reasonably complex filmed classroom interactions. The film series itself is based…
Descriptors: Answer Keys, Answer Sheets, Classification, Criterion Referenced Tests
Ben-Ur, Tamar; Rogers, Glen – 1994
Alverno College (Wisconsin), a women's liberal arts college, has developed an Alumni Career Level Classification (AACLC) scheme to measure alumna career advancement and demonstrate institutional accountability. This validation study was part of a larger longitudinal study of two entire cohorts of students entering the college in 1976 and 1977, of…
Descriptors: Accountability, Alumni, Career Development, Classification
Shiflett, Samuel; And Others – 1985
A study was undertaken to improve the measurement of small team performance within the Army. A provisional taxonomy of team-level performance functions was field-validated; criteria and measures of the functions were developed; and their reliability was examined. The provisional taxonomy, used for observing Army field training exercises, was used…
Descriptors: Behavior Rating Scales, Classification, Evaluation Criteria, Evaluators
