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Direct linkEsfandiari, Mohammad Reza; Riasati, Mohammad Javad; Vaezian, Helia; Rahimi, Forough – Language Testing in Asia, 2018
Background: Validity is a notable concept in language testing which has concerned many researchers and scholars in the field of language testing due to its importance in decision making process. Tests' results always introduce consequences to test takers' lives which emphasizes the need to ensure their validity. Detecting and delineating the…
Descriptors: Computer Assisted Testing, Test Validity, Language Tests, English (Second Language)
Liu, Ren; Huggins-Manley, Anne Corinne; Bulut, Okan – Educational and Psychological Measurement, 2018
Developing a diagnostic tool within the diagnostic measurement framework is the optimal approach to obtain multidimensional and classification-based feedback on examinees. However, end users may seek to obtain diagnostic feedback from existing item responses to assessments that have been designed under either the classical test theory or item…
Descriptors: Models, Item Response Theory, Psychometrics, Test Construction
Download full textAl-Amir, Bayan Al-Hashemi – English Language Teaching, 2017
In the literature of second language teaching and learning, the use of students' first language (L1) has been an issue of debate for many years. Despite the changing state of teaching and learning aspects over the years, the belief that L1 should not be used in English as a Foreign Language (EFL) classrooms has stood the test of time.…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Females, English (Second Language), Second Language Instruction
Gu, Lin – Language Testing, 2015
In this study I examined the dimensionality of the latent ability underlying language use that is needed to fulfill the demands young learners face in English-medium instructional environments, where English is used as the means of instruction for teaching subject matters. Previous research on English language use by school-age children provided…
Descriptors: Language Aptitude, Language Proficiency, English (Second Language), English Language Learners
Gu, Lin – Language Testing, 2014
This study investigated the relationship between latent components of academic English language ability and test takers' study-abroad and classroom learning experiences through a structural equation modeling approach in the context of TOEFL iBT® testing. Data from the TOEFL iBT public dataset were used. The results showed that test takers'…
Descriptors: Language Tests, Second Language Learning, Language Proficiency, English for Academic Purposes
Evanini, Keelan; Heilman, Michael; Wang, Xinhao; Blanchard, Daniel – ETS Research Report Series, 2015
This report describes the initial automated scoring results that were obtained using the constructed responses from the Writing and Speaking sections of the pilot forms of the "TOEFL Junior"® Comprehensive test administered in late 2011. For all of the items except one (the edit item in the Writing section), existing automated scoring…
Descriptors: Computer Assisted Testing, Automation, Language Tests, Second Language Learning
Yang, Hui-Chun – Language Assessment Quarterly, 2014
This study explores the construct of a summarization test task by means of single-group and multigroup structural equation modeling (SEM). It examines the interrelationships between strategy use and performance, drawing on data from 298 Taiwanese undergraduates' summary essays and their self-reported strategy use. Single-group SEM analyses…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Structural Equation Models, Writing Skills, Language Tests
Crossley, Scott; McNamara, Danielle – Language Learning & Technology, 2013
This study explores the potential for automated indices related to speech delivery, language use, and topic development to model human judgments of TOEFL speaking proficiency in second language (L2) speech samples. For this study, 244 transcribed TOEFL speech samples taken from 244 L2 learners were analyzed using automated indices taken from…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Language Proficiency, Language Tests, Speech Communication
Crossley, Scott; McNamara, Danielle – Grantee Submission, 2013
This study explores the potential for automated indices related to speech delivery, language use, and topic development to model human judgments of TOEFL speaking proficiency in second language (L2) speech samples. For this study, 244 transcribed TOEFL speech samples taken from 244 L2 learners were analyzed using automated indices taken from…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Language Proficiency, Language Tests, Speech Communication
Nizonkiza, Déogratias – Studies in Second Language Learning and Teaching, 2012
The present study explores the relationship between controlled productive knowledge of collocations and L2 proficiency, the role of frequency in controlled productive knowledge of collocations, and the quantifiability of controlled productive collocational knowledge growth alongside L2 proficiency and word frequency levels. A proficiency measure…
Descriptors: Word Frequency, Language Proficiency, Phrase Structure, Second Language Learning
Sawaki, Yasuyo; Sinharay, Sandip – ETS Research Report Series, 2013
This study investigates the value of reporting the reading, listening, speaking, and writing section scores for the "TOEFL iBT"® test, focusing on 4 related aspects of the psychometric quality of the TOEFL iBT section scores: reliability of the section scores, dimensionality of the test, presence of distinct score profiles, and the…
Descriptors: Scores, Computer Assisted Testing, Factor Analysis, Correlation
Attali, Yigal – ETS Research Report Series, 2007
This study examined the construct validity of the "e-rater"® automated essay scoring engine as an alternative to human scoring in the context of TOEFL® essay writing. Analyses were based on a sample of students who repeated the TOEFL within a short time period. Two "e-rater" scores were investigated in this study, the first…
Descriptors: Construct Validity, Computer Assisted Testing, Scoring, English (Second Language)
Way, Walter D.; Reese, Clyde M. – 1991
The use of two alternative item response theory (IRT) estimation models in the scaling and equating of the Test of English as a Foreign Language (TOEFL) was explored; and item scaling and test equating results based on these models were compared with results based on the three-parameter (3PL) model currently being used with the TOEFL. Models were…
Descriptors: Correlation, Equated Scores, Estimation (Mathematics), Goodness of Fit
