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Chalhoub-Deville, Micheline – Language Testing, 2016
Educational policies such as Race to the Top in the USA affirm a central role for testing systems in government-driven reform efforts. Such reform policies are often referred to as the global education reform movement (GERM). Changes observed with the GERM style of testing demand socially engaged validity theories that include consequential…
Descriptors: Educational Change, Educational Policy, Testing, Validity
Filipi, Anna – Language Testing, 2012
The Assessment of Language Competence (ALC) certificates is an annual, international testing program developed by the Australian Council for Educational Research to test the listening and reading comprehension skills of lower to middle year levels of secondary school. The tests are developed for three levels in French, German, Italian and…
Descriptors: Listening Comprehension Tests, Item Response Theory, Statistical Analysis, Foreign Countries

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