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Mahmoud Abdi Tabari; Minyoung Cho – Language Teaching Research, 2025
To test the predictive power of the SSARC (stabilize, simplify, automatize, reconstruct, and complexify) model of pedagogic task sequencing in second language (L2) writing development, the present study explores the performance of written decision-making tasks with varied levels of cognitive complexity in a simple-to-complex sequence in comparison…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Advanced Students
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Harsch, Claudia; Kanistra, Voula Paraskevi – Language Assessment Quarterly, 2020
We report on a standard-setting project in which the Item-Descriptor-Matching Method (IDM) and a complementary benchmarking approach were employed to align a suite of English language proficiency exams to the "Common European Framework of Reference" (CEFR), with a particular focus on the integrated and independent writing exams. Judges'…
Descriptors: Standard Setting, Guidelines, Rating Scales, Definitions
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Abdi Tabari, Mahmoud – Reading & Writing Quarterly, 2020
This study investigated the effects of strategic planning and task structure (personal, narrative, and decision-making tasks) on L2 writing outcomes. One hundred and twenty intermediate English as a foreign language learners were randomly divided into strategic-planning and no-planning-time groups. The strategic-planning group performed the three…
Descriptors: Decision Making, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Writing Instruction
Wagner, Kyle; Smith, Alex; Allen, Abigail; McMaster, Kristen; Poch, Apryl; Lembke, Erica – Assessment for Effective Intervention, 2019
Researchers and practitioners have questioned whether scoring procedures used with curriculum-based measures of writing (CBM-W) capture growth in complexity of writing. We analyzed data from six independent samples to examine two potential scoring metrics for picture word CBM-W (PW), a sentence-level CBM task. Correct word sequences per response…
Descriptors: Curriculum Based Assessment, Writing Evaluation, Comparative Analysis, Scoring