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Download full textHamed Ghaemi; Zahra Khorsand – African Educational Research Journal, 2024
This study delves into writing scores in both tests, aiming to uncover the reasons behind score differences. Through comprehensive comparative analysis, this research explores scoring patterns, criteria, and score distributions in IELTS and PTE writing sections. It investigates sources of score variation, including task design, rating criteria,…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Scores, Language Tests, Second Language Learning
Comparing Rating Modes: Analysing Live, Audio, and Video Ratings of IELTS Speaking Test Performances
Direct linkNakatsuhara, Fumiyo; Inoue, Chihiro; Taylor, Lynda – Language Assessment Quarterly, 2021
This mixed methods study compared IELTS examiners' scores when assessing spoken performances under live and two 'non-live' testing conditions using audio and video recordings. Six IELTS examiners assessed 36 test-takers' performances under the live, audio, and video rating conditions. Scores in the three rating modes were calibrated using the…
Descriptors: Video Technology, Audio Equipment, English (Second Language), Language Tests
Pavlova, Lyubov; Pulekha, Irina; Vtorushina, Yuliana; Baryshnikova, Iuliia; Emets, Tatiana – International Journal of Instruction, 2022
The improvement of the quality of foreign language education is necessary to achieve subject-learning outcomes for the development of graduates' pertinent communication strategies in foreign language communication in various social situations. The research purpose is to develop the communicative strategies (CS) in foreign language (FL)…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Outcomes of Education, Communication Strategies, Second Language Learning
Ahmadi, Saeed; Riasati, Mohammad Javad; Bavali, Mohammad – Cogent Education, 2019
This study aimed at comparing two types of IELTS writing task 1 namely, bar charts and tables of Iranian test takers in terms of four IELTS writing assessment criteria including task achievement, coherence and cohesion, lexical resource, and grammar range and accuracy. The study also sought to identify test takers' strengths and weaknesses in the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Second Language Learning, English (Second Language), Language Tests
Farahani, Ali Akbar Khomeijani; Nemati, Majid; Nazari Montazer, Mostafa – Language Testing in Asia, 2019
This study examines the distribution of peer review in face-to-face and mobile-mediated peer review groups and their effects on students' revision skills and academic writing development. Seventy-two first-year English for academic purposes (EAP) students participated in an 18-session IELTS academic writing course in a Canadian university the…
Descriptors: Telecommunications, Handheld Devices, Peer Evaluation, English for Academic Purposes
Ginther, April; Elder, Catherine – ETS Research Report Series, 2014
In line with expanded conceptualizations of validity that encompass the interpretations and uses of test scores in particular policy contexts, this report presents results of a comparative analysis of institutional understandings and uses of 3 international English proficiency tests widely used for tertiary selection--the "TOEFL iBT"®…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Questionnaires
