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Direct linkXi, Xiaoming – Language Testing, 2007
This study explores the utility of analytic scoring for TAST in providing useful and reliable diagnostic information for operational use in three aspects of candidates' performance: delivery, language use and topic development. One hundred and forty examinees' responses to six TAST tasks were scored analytically on these three aspects of speech. G…
Descriptors: Scoring, Profiles, Performance Based Assessment, Academic Discourse
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
Xi, Xiaoming – Language Testing, 2005
This study examines how task characteristics (the number of visual chunks and the amount of planning time) and test-taker characteristics (graph familiarity) influence the perceptual and cognitive processes involved in graph comprehension, the strategies used in describing graphs, and the scores obtained on the graph description task in a…
Descriptors: Program Effectiveness, Familiarity, Graphs, Cognitive Processes
Lumley, Tom; O'Sullivan, Barry – Language Testing, 2005
Performance in tests of spoken language can be influenced by a wide range of features of both task and participants. This article hypothesizes that there may be effects on performance attributable to an interaction of variables such as the task topic, the gender of the person presenting the topic and the gender of the candidate. In contrast to…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Speech Communication, Audience Analysis, Oral Language
Al-Hamly, Mashael; Coombe, Christine – Language Testing, 2005
This study investigates whether the practice of answer changing on multiple-choice questions (MCQs) is beneficial to Gulf Arab students' overall test performance. The proficiency exam used in this study is the Michigan English Language Institute College English Test - Grammar, Cloze, Vocabulary, Reading (MELICET-GCVR), which was developed using…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, College English, Arabs, Multiple Choice Tests
Peer reviewedBrindley, Geoff – Language Testing, 1998
Examines the nature of outcomes-based assessment and reporting systems in language education, noting problems that may arise in their development and implementation by presenting case studies of assessment innovations in the United Kingdom and Australia, which experienced various political, technical, and practical problems. The relationship…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Elementary Secondary Education, English (Second Language), Evaluation Methods
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