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Abdullah, Mahmoud M. S.; Abdel-Gawad, Rehab A. El-sayed; Ibrahim, Ibrahim Badry Marwany – Online Submission, 2023
This study investigated the effectiveness of using a social learning programme facilitated by Facebook to develop some creative writing skills and motivation to learn English among secondary-one school students. Seventy students in secondary-one grade in Al-Shahid Hussein A. Abdul-Raouf Mixed Secondary School in Al-Maabda in the second semester of…
Descriptors: Creative Writing, Teaching Methods, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
Al-Jarf, Reima – Online Submission, 2021
The present study aimed to describe and evaluate the current assessment practices prevalent in the different translation courses offered at the College of Languages and Translation (COLT). A sample of specialized translation final exams in 18 translation subject areas was collected. Each final exam was analyzed in terms of the following: (1) # of…
Descriptors: Translation, Language Tests, Readability, Semitic Languages
Al-Jarf, Reima – Online Submission, 2023
This article aims to give a comprehensive guide to planning and designing vocabulary tests which include Identifying the skills to be covered by the test; outlining the course content covered; preparing a table of specifications that shows the skill, content topics and number of questions allocated to each; and preparing the test instructions. The…
Descriptors: Vocabulary Development, Learning Processes, Test Construction, Course Content
Tavarez Da Costa, Pedro; Reyes Arias, Fransheska – Online Submission, 2021
The present work seeks to establish a comparison between two different and distant evaluation tools applied to the Dominican student population in order to measure the efficiency of our educational system in the recent years, one of them measured the quality of Dominican education in three areas (the PISA Test), whereas the other tested the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Standardized Tests, Student Evaluation, International Assessment
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Salmani Nodoushan, Mohammad Ali – Online Submission, 2020
Language testing has witnessed three major trends in the 1990s: theoretical, methodological, and analytical. Theoretically, emphasis has been placed on the further understanding of the construct of language proficiency. Methodologically, there has been an outburst of interest in language performance testing and the promotion of the professional…
Descriptors: Test Construction, Test Use, Psychometrics, Item Response Theory
Edward Paul Getman – Online Submission, 2020
Despite calls for engaging assessments targeting young language learners (YLLs) between 8 and 13 years old, what makes assessment tasks engaging and how such task characteristics affect measurement quality have not been well studied empirically. Furthermore, there has been a dearth of validity research about technology-enhanced speaking tests for…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Language Tests, Second Language Learning, Learner Engagement
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Kaya, Asli; Bilen, Sermin – Online Submission, 2017
Creativity, although it had existed since the existence of humanity, nowadays it is gaining more and more importance. In this process, creativity have been addressed in a variety of ways such as the studies of development on creativity and determination of the level of creativity. For this reason some scales or tests have been developed. Developed…
Descriptors: Creative Thinking, Turkish, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
Brown, James Dean; Salmani Nodoushan, Mohammad Ali – Online Submission, 2015
In this interview, JD Brown reflects on language testing/assessment. He suggests that language testing can be seen as a continuum with hard core positivist approaches at one end and post modernist interpretive perspectives at the other, and also argues that norm referencing (be it proficiency, placement, or aptitude testing) and criterion…
Descriptors: Interviews, Language Tests, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
Aydin, Selami; Harputlu, Leyla; Güzel, Serhat; Ustuk, Özgehan; Savran Çelik, Seyda; Genç, Deniz – Online Submission, 2016
Foreign language anxiety (FLA), which constitutes a serious problem in the foreign language learning process, has been mainly seen as a research issue regarding adult language learners, while it has been overlooked in children. This is because there is no an appropriate tool to measure FLA among children, whereas there are many studies on the…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Anxiety, Rating Scales, Test Reliability
Aydin, Selami; Harputlu, Leyla; Çelik, Seyda Savran; Ustuk, Özgehan; Güzel, Serhat; Genç, Deniz – Online Submission, 2016
Measurement of children's behaviors in an educational and research context is a problematic and complex area. It is also evident that adapting scales to measure children's behaviors in an educational and research context is a complex process due to several reasons. First, cultural elements constitute a considerable problem. Second, it is difficult…
Descriptors: Child Behavior, Models, Test Construction, Test Validity
Ayyildiz, Emine; Akçin, Nur; Güven, Yildiz – Online Submission, 2016
Communication is crucial for any human being and the children with disabilities are no exception. Due to the number and combination of their disabilities and/or conditions, children with multiple disabilities and visual impairment (MDVI) have especially limitations of the ability to communicate the meaningful and functional way with their…
Descriptors: Children, Multiple Disabilities, Visual Impairments, Communication Skills
Siddiek, Ahmed Gumaa – Online Submission, 2010
This paper investigates the impact of content validity of language tests on both teacher and learner. Educational evaluation produces too much stress in both teacher and learner, but it is given less attention by the teacher than any other teaching tasks. This inconvenience comes from the doubt with which this topic is approached. Tests are…
Descriptors: Test Validity, Content Validity, Language Tests, English (Second Language)
Tran, Thu H. – Online Submission, 2012
The vast majority of second language teachers feels confident about their instructional performance and does not usually have much difficulty with their teaching thanks to their professional training and accumulated classroom experience. Nonetheless, many second language teachers may not have received sufficient training in test development to…
Descriptors: Second Language Instruction, Language Tests, Test Construction, Test Validity
Garcia Laborda, Jesus; Magal Royo, Teresa; Otero de Juan, Nuria; Gimenez Lopez, Jose L. – Online Submission, 2015
Assessing speaking is one of the most difficult tasks in computer based language testing. Many countries all over the world face the need to implement standardized language tests where speaking tasks are commonly included. However, a number of problems make them rather impractical such as the costs, the personnel involved, the length of time for…
Descriptors: Test Construction, Telecommunications, Computer Mediated Communication, Computer Assisted Testing
Kilickaya, Ferit; Krajka, Jaroslaw – Online Submission, 2010
This study inquires into whether prospective English language teachers consider the central exam, KPSS (The Selection Examination for Professional Posts in Public Organizations) valid to select and recruit English language teachers, and what suggestions they have concerning the improvement of the exam. The findings indicate that the majority of…
Descriptors: Language Teachers, English (Second Language), Second Language Instruction, Standardized Tests
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