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Kaja Haugen; Cecilie Hamnes Carlsen; Christine Möller-Omrani – Language Awareness, 2025
This article presents the process of constructing and validating a test of metalinguistic awareness (MLA) for young school children (age 8-10). The test was developed between 2021 and 2023 as part of the MetaLearn research project, financed by The Research Council of Norway. The research team defines MLA as using metalinguistic knowledge at a…
Descriptors: Language Tests, Test Construction, Elementary School Students, Metalinguistics
Abdullah Alamer; Mark Feng Teng; Atsushi Mizumoto – Applied Linguistics, 2025
Research into self-regulating capacity in vocabulary learning is recognized as a significant topic within the second language domain. The self-regulating capacity in vocabulary learning scale (SRCvoc; Tseng et al. 2006) is arguably the most widely used tool for assessing this construct. The common factor model, which is applied through…
Descriptors: Construct Validity, Language Proficiency, Vocabulary Skills, Factor Analysis
Ali Al-Barakat; Rommel AlAli; Omayya Al-Hassan; Khaled Al-Saud – Educational Process: International Journal, 2025
Background/purpose: The study tries to discover how predictive thinking can be incorporated into writing activities to assist students in developing their creative skills in writing learning environments. Through this study, teachers will be able to adopt a new teaching method that helps transform the way creative writing is taught in language…
Descriptors: Thinking Skills, Creative Writing, Writing Instruction, Validity
Amin D. Lotfizadeh; Brendan Gard; Cynthia Rico; Alan Poling; Kristen R. Choi – Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 2025
Behavior analysts frequently use the Verbal Behavior Milestones Assessment and Placement Program (VB-MAPP) to assess the language and social skills of children with autism in everyday practice and in research. Despite the widespread use of the VB-MAPP, its psychometric characteristics have not been extensively investigated. To provide information…
Descriptors: Adjustment (to Environment), Behavior Rating Scales, Autism Spectrum Disorders, Test Validity
Jeff Allen; Jay Thomas; Stacy Dreyer; Scott Johanningmeier; Dana Murano; Ty Cruce; Xin Li; Edgar Sanchez – ACT Education Corp., 2025
This report describes the process of developing and validating the enhanced ACT. The report describes the changes made to the test content and the processes by which these design decisions were implemented. The authors describe how they shared the overall scope of the enhancements, including the initial blueprints, with external expert panels,…
Descriptors: College Entrance Examinations, Testing, Change, Test Construction
Dongmei Li; Shalini Kapoor; Ann Arthur; Chi-Yu Huang; YoungWoo Cho; Chen Qiu; Hongling Wang – ACT Education Corp., 2025
Starting in April 2025, ACT will introduce enhanced forms of the ACT® test for national online testing, with a full rollout to all paper and online test takers in national, state and district, and international test administrations by Spring 2026. ACT introduced major updates by changing the test lengths and testing times, providing more time per…
Descriptors: College Entrance Examinations, Testing, Change, Scoring
Jeff Allen; Ty Cruce – ACT Education Corp., 2025
This report summarizes some of the evidence supporting interpretations of scores from the enhanced ACT, focusing on reliability, concurrent validity, predictive validity, and score comparability. The authors argue that the evidence presented in this report supports the interpretation of scores from the enhanced ACT as measures of high school…
Descriptors: College Entrance Examinations, Testing, Change, Scores
Guangrui Fan; Dandan Liu; Rui Zhang; Lihu Pan – International Journal of STEM Education, 2025
Purpose: This study investigates the impact of AI-assisted pair programming on undergraduate students' intrinsic motivation, programming anxiety, and performance, relative to both human-human pair programming and individual programming approaches. Methods: A quasi-experimental design was conducted over two academic years (2023-2024) with 234…
Descriptors: Artificial Intelligence, Computer Software, Technology Uses in Education, Programming
Kimberly Dwyer; Angela M. Kelly – Journal for Research in Mathematics Education, 2025
This quantitative correlational study examines school-level longitudinal outcomes of eighth-grade algebra universal acceleration in 15 U.S. school districts when compared with selective acceleration in 289 school districts. Universally accelerated school districts had higher enrollments, with large effect sizes, in geometry, algebra 2, and…
Descriptors: Algebra, Grade 8, Mathematics Instruction, Acceleration (Education)
Yufan Zhao; Vahid Aryadoust – Language Testing, 2025
This study examined the semantic features of the simulated mini-lectures in the listening sections of the International English Language Testing System (IELTS) and the Test of English as a Foreign Language (TOEFL) based on automatized semantic analysis to explore the content validity of the two tests. Two study corpora were utilized, the IELTS…
Descriptors: Semantics, Computational Linguistics, Academic Language, Second Language Learning
Fatih Yavuz; Özgür Çelik; Gamze Yavas Çelik – British Journal of Educational Technology, 2025
This study investigates the validity and reliability of generative large language models (LLMs), specifically ChatGPT and Google's Bard, in grading student essays in higher education based on an analytical grading rubric. A total of 15 experienced English as a foreign language (EFL) instructors and two LLMs were asked to evaluate three student…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Computational Linguistics
Zhenyu Zhou; Oksana Mkrtichian – European Journal of Education, 2025
Academic stress, an endemic phenomenon in higher education, presents a multifaceted challenge, manifesting as cognitive overload, affective dysregulation and physiological destabilisation. It leads to recurrent feedback loops that reinforce anxiety and frustration, intensifying maladaptive stress responses. This study examines the extent to which…
Descriptors: Singing, Music, Anxiety, Rating Scales
Yangqiuting Li; Chandralekha Singh – Physical Review Physics Education Research, 2025
Research-based multiple-choice questions implemented in class with peer instruction have been shown to be an effective tool for improving students' engagement and learning outcomes. Moreover, multiple-choice questions that are carefully sequenced to build on each other can be particularly helpful for students to develop a systematic understanding…
Descriptors: Physics, Science Instruction, Science Tests, Multiple Choice Tests