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Upshur, John A.; Turner, Carolyn E. – Language Testing, 1999
Research on two approaches to assessment of second-language performance--second-language acquisition and language testing--is examined and compared with regard to systematic effects on language tests. Findings incidental to a test development project are then presented. It is concluded that a full account of performance testing requires a paradigm…
Descriptors: Discourse Analysis, Language Tests, Performance Tests, Second Language Learning
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Kozaki ,Y. – Language Testing, 2004
This article presents a standard-setting procedure for performance assessment in a foreign language, through which some of the major problems facing performance assessment in criterion-referenced testing can be addressed. The procedure, which was geared to revealing and accommodating inter-judge variability, employed the synergy of multiple…
Descriptors: Data Analysis, Testing, Performance Tests, Generalizability Theory