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| Hanania, Edith | 1 |
| Homburg, Taco Justus | 1 |
| Inal, Nevin | 1 |
| Johnson, Dixon C. | 1 |
| Oller, John W., Jr. | 1 |
| Raimes, Ann | 1 |
| Shikhani, May | 1 |
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Peer reviewedHomburg, Taco Justus – TESOL Quarterly, 1984
Discusses the relationship between subjective evaluation and objective measures of ESL writing proficiency. Objective measures used in this study accounted for 84 percent of the variance of subjective grades assigned to a sample of compositions. Author suggests that training readers can be important to the reliability and the validity of the…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Holistic Evaluation, Language Proficiency, Language Tests
Peer reviewedJohnson, Dixon C. – TESOL Quarterly, 1977
This experiment tested college students whose first language is English with the TOEFL examination. The major conclusion was that TOEFL scores do not relate to academic aptitude or performance of domestic students and to evaluate English competency of native speakers with this test is inappropriate. (CHK)
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Language Proficiency, Language Tests, Native Speakers
Peer reviewedGaies, Stephen J. – TESOL Quarterly, 1977
The "noise" test is a dictation of English sentences recorded on tape with accompanying background white noise; it is used to evaluate English proficiency. This study describes a revision to increase test validity. Technical aspects of recording, syntactic comparability of test items, and data on revised instrument performance are discussed. (CHK)
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Language Proficiency, Language Skills, Tape Recordings
Peer reviewedRaimes, Ann – TESOL Quarterly, 1990
Describes the development of the Educational Testing Service's (ETS) tests of composition for native speakers of English and of the Test of English as a Foreign Language's (TOEFL) Test of Written English (TWE). Recommendations are provided for carefully scrutinizing new developments in ETS testing as they affect students. (39 references) (GLR)
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Language Proficiency, Language Tests, Native Speakers
Peer reviewedTESOL Quarterly, 1972
Descriptors: Language Proficiency, Language Tests, Linguistic Competence, Measurement Instruments
Peer reviewedOller, John W., Jr.; Inal, Nevin – TESOL Quarterly, 1971
Descriptors: Cloze Procedure, Comparative Analysis, Educational Experiments, English (Second Language)
Peer reviewedHanania, Edith; Shikhani, May – TESOL Quarterly, 1986
Describes a study of the interrelationships among three tests (a standardized English-as-a-second-language test, a cloze test, and a written composition test) which sought to determine whether adding the cloze test to the ESL test would improve the predictability of students' communicative proficiency, as reflected in their writing test…
Descriptors: Cloze Procedure, English (Second Language), Higher Education, Language Proficiency
Peer reviewedDieterich, Thomas G.; And Others – TESOL Quarterly, 1979
Summarizes some of the findings of recent study of tests designed to determine the English language proficiency of nonnative speakers. (CFM)
Descriptors: Educational Testing, English (Second Language), Evaluation, Language Dominance
