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Direct linkPatael, Smadar; Shamir, Julia; Soffer, Tal; Livne, Eynat; Fogel-Grinvald, Haya; Kishon-Rabin, Liat – Journal of Computer Assisted Learning, 2022
Background: The global COVID-19 pandemic turned the adoption of on-line assessment in the institutions for higher education from possibility to necessity. Thus, in the end of Fall 20/21 semester Tel Aviv University (TAU)--the largest university in Israel--designed and implemented a scalable procedure for administering proctored remote…
Descriptors: COVID-19, Pandemics, Computer Assisted Testing, Foreign Countries
Tschirner, Erwin – Unterrichtspraxis/Teaching German, 2018
Concepts of second language proficiency and how proficiency may be assessed have changed considerably over the last 20 years. New notions of validity with respect to the interpretation and uses of test scores have begun to shape discussions about test validity and quality assurance in college world language departments, in government, and in…
Descriptors: Language Tests, Testing, Test Theory, German
Download full textHossain, Md. Mahroof; Ahmed, Md. Kawser – Advances in Language and Literary Studies, 2015
Test is procedures for measuring ability, knowledge or performance. Testing can be defined as a method of assessment and improvement of the students. Language testing in any point is an extremely multifarious task that ought to be based on method as well as exercise. The results of assessments are used for one or more purposes. So they have an…
Descriptors: Language Tests, Testing, Second Language Learning, Foreign Countries
Gehringer, Edward F.; Peddycord, Barry W., III – Journal of Instructional Research, 2013
As homework and other aspects of education migrate to a computer-based format, on-paper exams are beginning to seem like an anachronism. Online delivery is attractive, but comes with a myriad of implications not apparent at first glance. It affects the kinds of questions that can be asked and complicates administration of the exam, but it may make…
Descriptors: Computer Assisted Testing, Online Surveys, Teacher Attitudes, Student Attitudes
Zhao, Zhongbao – RELC Journal: A Journal of Language Teaching and Research, 2013
This study investigates the validity of the Diagnostic College English Speaking Test (DCEST) in the context of EFL teaching and learning in China. The experiment was conducted in three stages over the course of eight weeks at a national key university in China. By means of test administration and questionnaire survey, the researcher gathered…
Descriptors: Oral Language, Construct Validity, Language Tests, Diagnostic Tests
Cheng, Liying; DeLuca, Christopher – Educational Assessment, 2011
Test-takers' interpretations of validity as related to test constructs and test use have been widely debated in large-scale language assessment. This study contributes further evidence to this debate by examining 59 test-takers' perspectives in writing large-scale English language tests. Participants wrote about their test-taking experiences in…
Descriptors: Language Tests, Test Validity, Test Use, English
Barry, Carol L.; Finney, Sara J. – Research & Practice in Assessment, 2009
The effects of gathering test scores under low-stakes conditions has been a prominent domain of research in the assessment and testing literature. One important area within this larger domain concerns the implications of a test being low-stakes on test evaluation and development. The current study examined one variable, the testing context, that…
Descriptors: Testing, Context Effect, Comparative Analysis, Test Validity
BALL, RUBY C. – 1967
TESTS ON CREATIVE PERSONALITY WERE STUDIED AND VALIDATED. THE FIVE TESTS CONSIDERED APPROACHED THE PROBLEM OF CREATIVITY MEASUREMENT IN DIFFERING WAYS. TWO WERE CHOSEN FROM PUBLISHED LITERATURE--(1) "SELF-DESCRIPTIVE EXPLORATORY RESEARCH INVENTORY," AND (2) "INCOMPLETE FIGURES TEST." THREE WERE ADAPTED OR DEVISED BY THE…
Descriptors: College Students, Creativity, Personality Assessment, Test Construction
Hall, Bruce W.; And Others – Measurement and Evaluation in Guidance, 1974
The research examines the hypothesis that predictive validity will be greater for a test given under stress instructions than for a test given under relax instructions. (Author)
Descriptors: Anxiety, Behavioral Science Research, College Students, Performance Factors
Peer reviewedRobbins, Rosemary A. – Omega: Journal of Death and Dying, 1991
Tested Bugen's Coping with Death Scale. Individuals who had written wills, planned estates and funerals, and signed organ donor cards scored higher on the Coping with Death Scale. Because Coping with Death scores were more consistently different in those who prepared for death, this scale may help in efforts to predict those who will engage in…
Descriptors: College Students, Coping, Death, Higher Education
Burgess, Thomas C. – Psychol Rep, 1970
Descriptors: Answer Keys, College Students, Feedback, Research
Sawyer, R. N. – Measurement and Evaluation in Guidance, 1971
This study investigated the reliability and validity of the Philosophical Belief Inventory (PBI). With the exception of the relationship between idealism and pragmatism and realism and existentialism, the PBI scales appear to be assessing independent facets of belief. (Author)
Descriptors: College Students, Counselors, Item Analysis, Psychological Testing
Liu, Jianda – Language Testing, 2007
Pragmatic proficiency has been incorporated in the EFL teaching and testing syllabi in China, but the corresponding tests still focus on linguistic competence. The gap between the teaching and testing is mainly due to the lack of generally accepted measures of communicative abilities such as pragmatic competence. This study developed a…
Descriptors: Linguistic Competence, Speech Acts, Testing, Foreign Countries
Sampson, Demetrios G., Ed.; Ifenthaler, Dirk, Ed.; Isaías, Pedro, Ed. – International Association for Development of the Information Society, 2018
The aim of the 2018 International Association for Development of the Information Society (IADIS) Cognition and Exploratory Learning in the Digital Age (CELDA) conference was to address the main issues concerned with evolving learning processes and supporting pedagogies and applications in the digital age. There have been advances in both cognitive…
Descriptors: Learning Processes, Teaching Methods, Educational Technology, Technology Uses in Education
Stonner, David M. – 1976
The performance of college students on the adolescent-adult version of the Matching Familiar Figures (MFF) test was examined in three studies to determine the effects of strategies on performance. With the standard instructions for the MFF, performance was found to be unrelated to test anxiety or extraversion and was parallel in many respects to…
Descriptors: Adults, College Students, Performance Factors, Personality Measures
