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Fitzpatrick, Tess; Clenton, Jon – TESOL Quarterly: A Journal for Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages and of Standard English as a Second Dialect, 2017
This article offers a solution to a significant problem for teachers and researchers of language learning that confounds their interpretations and expectations of test data: The apparent simplicity of tests of vocabulary knowledge masks the complexity of the constructs they claim to measure. The authors first scrutinise task elements in two widely…
Descriptors: Language Tests, Vocabulary Development, Difficulty Level, Performance Factors
Peters, Lawrence H.; Rudolf, Cathy J. – 1982
The literature on the partial determinants of performance in organizational contexts, particularly the research on situational determinants, suggests several different variables which may be of importance to appraisal processes as well. This point may be exemplified with regard to the situational factors of task ease/difficulty and situational…
Descriptors: Difficulty Level, Employees, Employers, Evaluation Criteria