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James Dean Brown; Ali Panahi; Hassan Mohebbi – Language Teaching Research Quarterly, 2023
Panahi and Mohebbi review James Dean Brown's 50-years of research in language testing, curriculum development and research statistics with reference to an impressionistic framework for analysis containing two components with their subcomponents: Annotations (i.e., briefing and implications) and main concepts and themes (i.e., testing and teaching…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Language Tests, Curriculum Development
Humphry, Stephen; Heldsinger, Sandra; Dawkins, Sue – Australian Journal of Education, 2017
Although the teaching of children's oral language is critical to both their social development and academic success, the assessment of oral language development poses many challenges for classroom teachers. The aim of the study is to develop an approach that: (i) enables teachers to assess oral language in a reliable, valid and comparable manner…
Descriptors: Oral Language, Teaching Methods, Language Acquisition, Teacher Role
Eckes, Thomas; Baghaei, Purya – Applied Measurement in Education, 2015
C-tests are gap-filling tests widely used to assess general language proficiency for purposes of placement, screening, or provision of feedback to language learners. C-tests consist of several short texts in which parts of words are missing. We addressed the issue of local dependence in C-tests using an explicit modeling approach based on testlet…
Descriptors: Language Proficiency, Language Tests, Item Response Theory, Test Reliability
Park, Siwon – Journal of Pan-Pacific Association of Applied Linguistics, 2017
This paper examines how different test methods may tap different aspects of second language knowledge. It employs multiple-choice (MC) and constructed response (CR) items which yield distinct or convergent information in the computer delivered testing of English in its presentation of this factor. In order to examine the effects of test method, a…
Descriptors: Evaluation Methods, Second Language Learning, English (Second Language), Computer Assisted Testing
Al Hajri, Fatma – English Language Teaching, 2014
Proficiency in English language and how it is measured have become central issues in higher education research as the English language is increasingly used as a medium of instruction and a criterion for admission to education. This study evaluated the English language assessment in the foundation Programme at the Colleges of Applied sciences in…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, College Programs, Thematic Approach, Language Proficiency
Mislevy, Robert J.; Yin, Chengbin – Language Learning, 2009
Individuals' use of language in contexts emerges from second-to-second processes of activating and integrating traces of past experiences--an interactionist view compatible with the study of language as a complex adaptive system but quite different from the trait-based framework through which measurement specialists investigate validity, establish…
Descriptors: Language Usage, Language Tests, Test Validity, Test Reliability

Cole, Kevin N.; And Others – Language, Speech, and Hearing Services in Schools, 1989
A study with 10 developmentally delayed children between the ages of 52 and 80 months found that test-retest samples resulted in greater variability for lexical and morphological measurements than split-half transcripts. It was also found that 50-utterance sample segments contained 70-80 percent of the lexical information found in 100-utterance…
Descriptors: Developmental Disabilities, Evaluation Methods, Language Handicaps, Language Tests

Bachman, Lyle F. – Annual Review of Applied Linguistics, 1989
Applied linguistics and psychometrics have influenced language testing, providing additional tools for investigating factors affecting language test performance and assuring measurement reliability. An examination is presented of language testing, including the theoretical issues involved, the methodological advances, language test development,…
Descriptors: Applied Linguistics, Evaluation Methods, Language Proficiency, Language Tests

Dunkel, Patricia – Language Learning & Technology, 1999
Describes what a computer-adaptive test (CAT) is, examines its roots, and points out some of the challenges this approach to assessment presents. (Author/VWL)
Descriptors: Computer Assisted Testing, Computer Software, Evaluation Methods, Higher Education
Norris, John M.; Brown, James Dean; Hudson, Thom; Yoshioka, Jim – 1998
This technical report focuses on the decision-making potential provided by second language performance assessments. First, performance assessment is situated within the broader discussion of alternatives in language assessment and in educational assessment in general. Next, issues in performance assessment design, implementation, reliability, and…
Descriptors: Evaluation Methods, Evaluation Research, Language Tests, Measures (Individuals)

Douglas, Dan – Annual Review of Applied Linguistics, 1995
Reviews recent theoretical, methodological, and analytical developments in language testing, focusing on more refined models of language ability, reliability and validity, performance testing, innovative test formats, new applications of Item Response Theory and Generalizability Theory to test performance. An annotated bibliography discusses seven…
Descriptors: Annotated Bibliographies, Evaluation Methods, Language Proficiency, Language Tests

Evans, Julia L.; Craig, Holly K. – Journal of Speech and Hearing Research, 1992
Analysis of spontaneous language samples of 10 children (ages 8-9) with specific language impairments found that interviews were a reliable, valid, and efficient assessment context, eliciting the same profile of behaviors as a freeplay context without altering diagnostic classifications. (Author/JDD)
Descriptors: Data Collection, Discourse Analysis, Educational Diagnosis, Efficiency

Magnan, Sally Sieloff – Canadian Modern Language Review, 1987
Differences in procedures used by academic institutions and government agencies in administering the American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages' Oral Proficiency Interview test are examined, and results and implications of two studies of interrater reliability are discussed. (MSE)
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Correlation, Evaluation Methods, Evaluators
ESOL Assessment Action Research Report. ESOL Action Research Assessment Piloting Project, 1999-2000.
Sawyer, Pat – 2000
This report was undertaken to help the Tennessee State government comply with federal requirements that all states collect valid, reliable, and uniform data for programs receiving federal funds as English-as-a-Second-Language (ESL) adult education programs. Data must be collected to report learner gains in reading, writing, speaking, and…
Descriptors: Adult Education, English (Second Language), Evaluation Methods, Federal Programs

Gavin, William J.; Giles, Lisa – Journal of Speech and Hearing Research, 1996
This study examined the temporal reliability of four quantitative measurements of linguistic behaviors in 20 preschool children observed in a naturalistic setting. Although inadequate reliability was found for the measure which used total number of words, very high reliability coefficients were obtained for the measures which used number of…
Descriptors: Clinical Diagnosis, Diagnostic Tests, Educational Diagnosis, Evaluation Methods
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