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Jeffrey Stewart; Henrik Gyllstad; Christopher Nicklin; Stuart McLean – Language Testing, 2024
The purpose of this paper is to (a) establish whether meaning recall and meaning recognition item formats test psychometrically distinct constructs of vocabulary knowledge which measure separate skills, and, if so, (b) determine whether each construct possesses unique properties predictive of L2 reading proficiency. Factor analyses and…
Descriptors: Vocabulary Development, Psychometrics, Language Tests, Recall (Psychology)
Isaacs, Talia; Hu, Ruolin; Trenkic, Danijela; Varga, Julia – Language Testing, 2023
The COVID-19 pandemic has changed the university admissions and proficiency testing landscape. One change has been the meteoric rise in use of the fully automated Duolingo English Test (DET) for university entrance purposes, offering test-takers a cheaper, shorter, accessible alternative. This rapid response study is the first to investigate the…
Descriptors: Predictive Validity, Educational Technology, Handheld Devices, Language Tests

Klein-Braley, Christine – Language Testing, 1985
Presents the theory of general language proficiency and looks at the construct validation of cloze tests and C-tests. Describes the defects of classical cloze procedures. Gives an example of the C-Test and discusses its empirical validity. Concludes that C-tests are authentic tests of the construct of general language proficiency.
Descriptors: Cloze Procedure, Comparative Analysis, Language Proficiency, Language Research

Davidson, Fred – Language Testing, 1994
Examines appropriacy of a nationally standardized test normed on English speakers but used with non-English speaking students. Data from the school year are analyzed via reliability comparison, exploratory factor analysis, and comparison of variances. The use of the test was statistically defensible. This finding does not address the need for…
Descriptors: Achievement Tests, Analysis of Variance, Elementary Secondary Education, English (Second Language)