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The Relationship between Criterion-Based Levels of Oral Proficiency and Norm-Referenced Scores of General Proficiency in English as a Second Language.

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Reed, Daniel J. – System, 1992

Presents data from validation study of American Council on Teaching of Foreign Languages (ACTFL) Oral Proficiency (OPI). Distinctness of OPI ratings from scores generated by Test of English as a Foreign Language and one other examination is assessed on basis of comparisons among 70 sets of scores from students of English as Second Language who…

Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Criterion Referenced Tests, English (Second Language), Higher Education

Language Testing in Japan.

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Brown, James Dean, Ed.; Yamashita, Sayoko Okada, Ed. – 1995

Papers on second language testing in Japan include: "Differences Between Norm-Referenced and Criterion-Referenced Tests" (James Dean Brown); "Criterion-Referenced Test Construction and Evaluation" (Dale T. Griffe); "Behavioral Learning Objectives as an Evaluation Tool" (Judith A. Johnson); "Developing Norm-…

Descriptors: Behavioral Objectives, Classroom Techniques, Cloze Procedure, College Entrance Examinations