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Back to Basics in Measuring Lexical Diversity: Too Simple to Be True
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Yves Bestgen – Applied Linguistics, 2024
Measuring lexical diversity in texts that have different lengths is problematic because length has a significant effect on the number of types a text contains, thus hampering any comparison. Treffers-Daller et al. (2018) recommended a simple solution, namely counting the number of types in a section of a given length that was extracted from the…
Descriptors: Language Variation, Second Language Learning, Essays, Writing Evaluation
Scenario-Based Assessment Design: An Implementation and Analysis of Iranian EFL Learners' Writing Performance
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Masumeh Rahimivand; Saeideh Ahangari; Nasrin Hadidi Tamjid – Language Testing in Asia, 2025
Writing comprehensibly, dynamically, and persuasively in a foreign language is a significant challenge for learners. Written communication assesses language and writing progress for various summative and developmental goals. Scenario-based assessment (SBA), as one of the methodologies of classroom-based assessment (CBA), aims to elicit both…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
The Case for Scenario-Based Assessment of Written Argumentation
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Deane, Paul; Song, Yi; van Rijn, Peter; O'Reilly, Tenaha; Fowles, Mary; Bennett, Randy; Sabatini, John; Zhang, Mo – Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 2019
This paper presents a theoretical and empirical case for the value of scenario-based assessment (SBA) in the measurement of students' written argumentation skills. First, we frame the problem in terms of creating a reasonably efficient method of evaluating written argumentation skills, including for students at relatively low levels of competency.…
Descriptors: Vignettes, Writing Skills, Persuasive Discourse, Writing Evaluation
ITC Guidelines for the Large-Scale Assessment of Linguistically and Culturally Diverse Populations
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International Journal of Testing, 2019
These guidelines describe considerations relevant to the assessment of test takers in or across countries or regions that are linguistically or culturally diverse. The guidelines were developed by a committee of experts to help inform test developers, psychometricians, test users, and test administrators about fairness issues in support of the…
Descriptors: Test Bias, Student Diversity, Cultural Differences, Language Usage
A Comparison of EFL Raters' Essay-Rating Processes across Two Types of Rating Scales
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Li, Hang; He, Lianzhen – Language Assessment Quarterly, 2015
This study used think-aloud protocols to compare essay-rating processes across holistic and analytic rating scales in the context of China's College English Test Band 6 (CET-6). A group of 9 experienced CET-6 raters scored the same batch of 10 CET-6 essays produced in an operational CET-6 administration twice, using both the CET-6 holistic…
Descriptors: Protocol Analysis, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Classification
Lexis in Free Production: An Analysis of the Lexical Texture of Swedish Students' Written Work. Swedish-English Contrastive Studies, Report No. 6.
Linnarud, Moira – 1975
The compositions or essay tests of second language learners are difficult to mark and evaluate. It has been suggested that the only way to achieve objectivity is to abolish all criteria except formal correctness, as it is the only one that can be measured and statistically evaluated. Attempts have been made to establish other criteria. A varied…
Descriptors: Communicative Competence (Languages), Content Analysis, Contrastive Linguistics, English (Second Language)