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Direct linkYuichiro Yokouchi – Language Testing in Asia, 2025
The performance decision tree (PDT; Fulcher et al., 2011) is a rubric style that is applicable to performance assessment, with origins in Upshur and Turner's (1995) empirically derived binary-choice, boundary-definition (EBB) scale. It is easier for raters to assess performance by evaluating multiple binary-choice descriptors. Additionally,…
Descriptors: Scoring Rubrics, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Language Teachers
Jeong, Heejeong – Language Testing in Asia, 2019
In writing assessment, finding a valid, reliable, and efficient scale is critical. Appropriate scales, increase rater reliability, and can also save time and money. This exploratory study compared the effects of a binary scale and an analytic scale across teacher raters and expert raters. The purpose of the study is to find out how different scale…
Descriptors: Writing Evaluation, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
Nakata, Yoshiyuki; Ikeno, Osamu; Kimura, Yuzo; Naganuma, Naoyuki; Andrews, Stephen – Language Testing in Asia, 2018
Background: This study aims to develop a low-stakes assessment tool to establish a classroom English language benchmark that Japanese teachers of English can use for their own professional development purposes. To start with, we describe the differences between CLA (Classroom Language Assessment) in Hong Kong and the IDS (Integrative Diagnostic…
Descriptors: Benchmarking, Language Teachers, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
Huang, Lan-fen; Kubelec, Simon; Keng, Nicole; Hsu, Lung-hsun – Language Testing in Asia, 2018
Background: Although teachers of English are required to assess students' speaking proficiency in the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages (CEFR), their ability to rate is seldom evaluated. The application of descriptors in the assessment of English speaking on CEFR in the context of English as a foreign language has not often been…
Descriptors: Evaluators, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, English (Second Language)
