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Tia M. Fechter; Heeyeon Yoon – Language Testing, 2024
This study evaluated the efficacy of two proposed methods in an operational standard-setting study conducted for a high-stakes language proficiency test of the U.S. government. The goal was to seek low-cost modifications to the existing Yes/No Angoff method to increase the validity and reliability of the recommended cut scores using a convergent…
Descriptors: Standard Setting, Language Proficiency, Language Tests, Evaluation Methods
Nicole Marx; Wolfgang Mann – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2025
Language assessment is a central aspect not only of language education in the general population, but also amongst heterogeneous, low-incidence populations. One such population are immigrant deaf and hard-of-hearing learners (IDML) who are bimodal-multilingual and whose languages development often includes the spoken, written, and/or signed…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, German, Sign Language, Immigrants
Han, Chao – Language Testing, 2022
Over the past decade, testing and assessing spoken-language interpreting has garnered an increasing amount of attention from stakeholders in interpreter education, professional certification, and interpreting research. This is because in these fields assessment results provide a critical evidential basis for high-stakes decisions, such as the…
Descriptors: Translation, Language Tests, Testing, Evaluation Methods
Francois, Isabelle; Lapka, Stefanie; Berstein Ratner, Nan; Mills, Monique T. – EBP Briefs (Evidence-based Practice Briefs), 2023
Clinical Question: For young AAE speakers (P), how useful is the Developmental Sentence Scoring (DSS) compared with Index of Productive Syntax (IPSyn) in identifying developmental language disorder (DLD) in the presence of African American English (AAE)? Method: Structured Review. Study Sources: PsycInfo®, Education Source, Education Resources…
Descriptors: Black Dialects, Language Impairments, Developmental Delays, Syntax
Doosti, Mehdi; Ahmadi Safa, Mohammad – International Journal of Language Testing, 2021
This study examined the effect of rater training on promoting inter-rater reliability in oral language assessment. It also investigated whether rater training and the consideration of the examinees' expectations by the examiners have any effect on test-takers' perceptions of being fairly evaluated. To this end, four raters scored 31 Iranian…
Descriptors: Oral Language, Language Tests, Interrater Reliability, Training
Boylu, Emrah – International Journal of Education and Literacy Studies, 2021
The aim of this research is to determine teachers' attitude levels towards assessment and evaluation who teach Turkish as a foreign language and to examine them in terms of various variables. Survey method, one of the quantitative research methods, was used in the research. Teachers (n=233) who teach Turkish in various institutions participated in…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Turkish, Second Language Instruction, Language Teachers
Anani Sarab, Mohammad Reza; Rahmani, Simindokht – International Journal of Language Testing, 2023
Language testing and assessment have grown in popularity and gained significance in the last few decades, and there is a rising need for assessment literate stakeholders in the field of language education. As teachers play a major role in assessing students, there is a need to make sure they have the right level of assessment knowledge and skills…
Descriptors: Language Tests, Literacy, Second Language Learning, Factor Analysis
Mohammed, Aisha; Dawood, Abdul Kareem Shareef; Alghazali, Tawfeeq; Kadhim, Qasim Khlaif; Sabti, Ahmed Abdulateef; Sabit, Shaker Holh – International Journal of Language Testing, 2023
Cognitive diagnostic models (CDMs) have received much interest within the field of language testing over the last decade due to their great potential to provide diagnostic feedback to all stakeholders and ultimately improve language teaching and learning. A large number of studies have demonstrated the application of CDMs on advanced large-scale…
Descriptors: Reading Comprehension, Reading Tests, Language Tests, English (Second Language)
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
Frazier, Thomas W.; Hauschild, Kathryn M.; Klingemier, Eric; Strauss, Mark S.; Hardan, Antonio Y.; Youngstrom, Eric A. – Journal of Intellectual & Developmental Disability, 2020
Background: Language assessment is a key element of evaluations of children and adolescents with neurodevelopmental disorders (NDDs). The present study examined the validity of a gaze-based receptive language index (RLI) in predicting language test results.Method: Participants included toddlers, pre-school, and school age children and adolescents…
Descriptors: Children, Adolescents, Neurological Impairments, Evaluation Methods
Brown, Alan V.; Plonsky, Luke; Teimouri, Yasser – Foreign Language Annals, 2018
Much of applied linguistics research has been concerned with classroom-based second language (L2) development as it offers an ideal setting for examining the institutional ecology of L2 learning and teaching. However, scholars have continued to call for greater attention to the operationalization of constructs, selection of valid assessments, and…
Descriptors: Grades (Scholastic), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Language Tests
Betts, Julian; Hill, Laura; Bachofer, Karen; Hayes, Joseph; Lee, Andrew; Zau, Andrew – Public Policy Institute of California, 2019
This document includes two technical appendices that accompany the main report, "English Learner Trajectories and Reclassification." The two appendices include: (1) Methodology; and (2) Supporting Tables and Figures. [For the full report, see ED603764.]
Descriptors: English Language Learners, Classification, School Districts, Outcomes of Education
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
Jacob R. Burdis – ProQuest LLC, 2014
Elicited Imitation (EI) is an assessment approach that uses sentence imitation tasks to gauge the oral proficiency level of test takers. EI tests have been created for several of the world's languages, including English, Spanish, Japanese, French, and Mandarin. Little research has been conducted for using the EI approach with learners of Russian.…
Descriptors: Evaluation Methods, Second Language Learning, Language Proficiency, Language Tests
Zychowicz, Katarzyna; Biedron, Adriana; Pawlak, Miroslaw – Studies in Second Language Learning and Teaching, 2017
Individual differences in second language acquisition (SLA) encompass differences in working memory capacity, which is believed to be one of the most crucial factors influencing language learning. However, in Poland research on the role of working memory in SLA is scarce due to a lack of proper Polish instruments for measuring this construct. The…
Descriptors: Verbal Ability, Short Term Memory, Individual Differences, Second Language Learning