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Sun, Zhijun; Xu, Peng; Wang, Jianqin – Language Assessment Quarterly, 2023
The construct of "learning potential" has been proposed to capture differences between learner independent performance and performance during Dynamic Assessment (DA). This paper introduces a new LPS formula implemented in a DA study involving Pakistani learners of L2 Chinese. Learners were randomly assigned to a control or experimental…
Descriptors: Chinese, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Evaluation Methods
Schissel, Jamie L.; Leung, Constant; Chalhoub-Deville, Micheline – Language Assessment Quarterly, 2019
This special issue brings together research in multilingualism within applied linguistics to delineate conceptualizations of multilingualism as constructs amenable for classroom and standardized testing systems operations. Specifically, for language testing and assessment, there have been multiple calls for the field to embrace multilingual…
Descriptors: Multilingualism, Language Tests, Testing, Applied Linguistics
Muhammad, Ananda Astrini; Ockey, Gary J. – Language Assessment Quarterly, 2021
Responding to the challenge of delivering valid assessments during the unprecedented times of the COVID-19 pandemic was certainly not easy. However, the efforts will undoubtedly lead to developments in the field of language assessment. This special issue closes with a brief summary of the commentaries it contains and raises some unanswered…
Descriptors: COVID-19, Pandemics, School Closing, Evaluation Methods
Gebril, Atta – Language Assessment Quarterly, 2020
This interview with James E. Purpura via Zoom comes in uncertain times, with CVOID-19 turning into a global pandemic. The author delves into different issues related to James E. Purpura's early career and his Language Assessment Quarterly (LAQ) editorial experience. Then moves on and talk about his research and teaching. The final part will…
Descriptors: Interviews, Editing, Periodicals, Language Tests
Phakiti, Aek – Language Assessment Quarterly, 2016
The current study explores the nature and relationships among test takers' performance appraisals, appraisal calibration, and reported cognitive and metacognitive strategy use in a language test situation. Performance appraisals are executive processes of strategic competence for judging test performance (e.g., evaluating the correctness or…
Descriptors: Testing, Test Wiseness, Language Tests, Evaluation Methods
Doe, Christine – Language Assessment Quarterly, 2015
Diagnostic assessment is increasingly being recognized as a potentially beneficial tool for teaching and learning (Jang, 2012). There have been calls in the research literature for students to receive diagnostic feedback and for researchers to investigate how such feedback is used by students. Therefore, this study examined how students…
Descriptors: Diagnostic Tests, Feedback (Response), Student Attitudes, English for Academic Purposes
Brown, James Dean – Language Assessment Quarterly, 2013
The purpose of this article is to examine the literature on teaching statistics for useful ideas that teachers of language testing courses can draw on and incorporate into their teaching toolkits as they see fit. To those ends, the article addresses eight questions: What is known generally about teaching statistics? Why are students so anxious…
Descriptors: Statistics, Teaching Methods, Mathematics Anxiety, Coping
Kiddle, Thom; Kormos, Judit – Language Assessment Quarterly, 2011
This article reports on a study conducted with 42 participants from a Chilean university, which aimed to determine the effect of mode of response on test performance and test-taker perception of test features by comparing a semidirect online version and a direct face-to-face version of a speaking test. Candidate performances on both test versions…
Descriptors: Student Attitudes, Test Theory, Foreign Countries, Evaluation Methods
Pardo-Ballester, Cristina – Language Assessment Quarterly, 2010
This study describes research used for supporting a validity argument for a new Spanish Listening Exam, whose scores are intended to place examinees into appropriate levels of university Spanish classes. This study contributes to the field of argument-based approaches to language assessment by implementing Bachman's (2005) assessment use argument…
Descriptors: Second Language Instruction, Test Reliability, Test Validity, Language Aptitude
Gysen, Sara; Kuijper, Henk; Van Avermaet, Piet – Language Assessment Quarterly, 2009
In this article we focus on two specific cases illustrating how similar issues have been addressed differently. Flanders, a federal state of Belgium, and the Netherlands share Dutch as an official language, yet remarkable differences in assessment traditions and policy development exist between them. These differences are most obvious with regard…
Descriptors: Citizenship, Official Languages, Testing, Language Tests
Leung, Constant – Language Assessment Quarterly, 2007
Dynamic assessment (DA), as a pro-learning form of assessment, has been discussed in the educational literature for three decades or more. As a concept it has yet to be picked up in any significant way by the more established second language testing/assessment literature published in the English language. There is, however, every reason to believe…
Descriptors: Formative Evaluation, Educational Assessment, Testing, Language Tests