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Toprak, Tugba Elif; Cakir, Abdulvahit – Language Testing, 2021
Cognitive diagnostic assessment (CDA) has been applied to language assessment in a number of studies in which a diagnostic classification model (DCM) was retrofitted to the results of a non-diagnostic assessment. However, the need to apply CDA through utilization of an inductive rather than a retrofitted approach has been a recurrent theme in…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Undergraduate Students, Young Adults
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Fox, Janna; Fairbairn, Shelley – Language Testing, 2011
This article reviews Assessing Comprehension and Communication in English State-to-State for English Language Learners ("ACCESS for ELLs"[R]), which is a large-scale, high-stakes, standards-based, and criterion-referenced English language proficiency test administered in the USA annually to more than 840,000 English Language Learners (ELLs), in…
Descriptors: Test Preparation, Feedback (Response), Instructional Design, Testing Accommodations
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Davidson, Fred – Language Testing, 1994
Examines appropriacy of a nationally standardized test normed on English speakers but used with non-English speaking students. Data from the school year are analyzed via reliability comparison, exploratory factor analysis, and comparison of variances. The use of the test was statistically defensible. This finding does not address the need for…
Descriptors: Achievement Tests, Analysis of Variance, Elementary Secondary Education, English (Second Language)